両方の側から:いじめる子もいじめられる子も変えるペルーの柔術プログラム
Starring
Salvatore Sanguinettiはブラジリアン柔術の黒帯二段で、マンコラにあるGuardianのペループログラムを創設し、率いています。リマ生まれで7歳から武道を始め、アメリカでYamasakiチームのもとで練習したのちペルーに戻りました。乱暴で手のかかる子どもを「排除すべき問題」ではなく「限界を求めている子」と捉え、かつていじめる側だった子が今では年下の子の面倒を見て、サーフィンに連れて行っている例を挙げています。
Calder PowersはGuardian Project全体のエグゼクティブディレクターです。荒れた思春期を経て18歳で柔術に出会いました。卒業は無理だと言われていた状態から、翌学期にはコミュニティカレッジでオールAを取るまでになり、柔術を「人生を切り替えたスイッチ」と表現しています。現在はペルーのプログラムを定期的に訪れています。
About the Gym
Guardian is a philanthropic 501(c)(3) program that brings Brazilian jiu-jitsu into under-resourced communities, with a focus on kids. In Peru it runs out of Máncora in the Piura Region, its northern hub, and Punta Hermosa, a beach town south of Lima. The program funds coaches and equipment and sponsors kids into training. Alex describes it on camera as one of dozens of sites the wider organization runs across Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Salvatore Sanguinetti founded and heads the Peru program. In Punta Hermosa, Guardian deliberately mixes kids from the poorer edge of town with local kids from the affluent beach community, two groups who would otherwise never share a room, training on the same mat under instructor Jesús Anato. The through-line the kids name themselves, over and over, is family.
The environment the program works against is what Alex calls an infrastructure problem: troubled or absent homes, a bullying epidemic, and the pull of drugs, alcohol, fast money, and crime. Guardian's answer is structure, belonging, and a coach who notices, delivered on the mat rather than in a lecture.
Máncora (HQ), Piura Region
Av. Piura, Máncora, Piura Region, Peru, in the town center, about half a block off the Panamericana highway, across from Odisea Restobar (Av. Piura 501).
Punta Hermosa, Lima Region
Punta Hermosa District, Lima Region, Peru.
Summary
Alex Cuevas travels to Máncora, a surf town on Peru's north coast, and later to Punta Hermosa near Lima, to film Guardian, a philanthropic program that runs jiu-jitsu for kids in under-resourced communities. He trains himself, so the mat is familiar. The interviews are what catch him off guard.
He asks each kid the same thing: how has jiu-jitsu helped you through something hard? Kid after kid names bullying, some as the ones who were picked on, some as the ones who did the picking. Both are now teammates at Guardian. Salvatore Sanguinetti, who runs the Peru program, reframes the disruptive kid as one "screaming for limits." Alex lands on the phrase for what he's watching: "you're actually fixing both sides."
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