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Wide of instructor teaching student how to hold a gun 2. Pullout of student holding gun 3. Wide of student learning to climb 4. Student learning self-defence 5. Wide of student learning ropes 6. Student trying...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eWest Hollywood - recent \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of instructor teaching student how to hold a gun \u003cbr/\u003e2. Pullout of student holding gun \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of student learning to climb \u003cbr/\u003e4. Student learning self-defence \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of student learning ropes \u003cbr/\u003e6. Student trying on wig \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of interior Absolution gym \u003cbr/\u003e8. Absolution sign \u003cbr/\u003e9. Set up of Sascha Ferguson, Absolution Gym, West Hollywood \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sascha Ferguson, Absolution Gym, West Hollywood \u003cbr/\u003e\"Spy School is not just a workout and it's not like a camp for grown ups. It's even better. It's a complete new identity. You get to learn everything you would need to know if you were going to spy camp a la Jennifer Garner or Jason  Bourne \" \u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up of instructor holding gun \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Worland, Spy School, weapons instructor \u003cbr/\u003e\" Usually spies have some familiarity with weapons, whether it's firearms, knives or improvised weapons and we cover all those. With firearms we specialise particularly into safe usage of firearms and later into actual tactics that would be used \" \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Katie Killean, Spy School student \u003cbr/\u003e\" Well I always wanted to be Kelly Garrett form Charlie's Angels. She's the Jaclyn Smith character. I initially heard of Spy School when I was going through a real traumatic divorce in my life and I wanted some spice in my life and I wanted some strength. I'm a jeans an T-shirt kind of Mom at the school. It was so exciting and thrilling, where I could dress up, shoot a gun, knock out an assailant. It was empowering. It was fantastic \" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of instructor teaching ropes \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Newton, Spy School Instructor, Trapeze artist for Cirque Du Soleil \u003cbr/\u003e\" As female spies, you never know what situation you're going to find yourself in so we teach our students, our spies how to invert themselves and feel comfortable in the air, to have the self confidence to trust themselves because you never know when if you have to leap from building, if you have to climb a tree for surveillance, if you have to run city blocks and not get winded (out of breath) \" \u003cbr/\u003e16. Set up of student Kim Marks, Spy School student \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Marks, Spy School student \u003cbr/\u003e\" For the last 5 years, I've been fighting thyroid cancer and as you know your thyroid controls your metabolism so a lot of sluggishness, weight gain feeling weak and I'd been going to the gym five to six days a week, barely loosing weight, then I saw a magazine article about Spy School. I was like \"ohhhh\" I want to be like Jennifer Garner (star of TV show 'Alias') and kick that hard and climb anything but I'm too big, I weigh too much, I'm not in good enough shape so I decided, well, let's just give it a shot \" \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of student Shannon Conte dropping from trapeze \u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Shannon Conte, Spy School student: \u003cbr/\u003e\" It makes me feel really in touch with my own body and feel my own strength as a woman and it's really exciting and I feel like I can adapt to anything. I feel like I can do anything \" \u003cbr/\u003e20. Set up of Brian Schwartz, self defence instructor with student Kim Marks \u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Brain Schwartz, Self defence instructor \u003cbr/\u003e\" We have full contact, adrenalised fighting which is good for spies because then they can then go ahead and defend themselves in a real situation. We have boundary setting, so they can tell people to go away or tell them what they because a lot of people don't do that. We have being able to identify potential assailants so looking at potential cues, like targets and how not to be a target \" \u003cbr/\u003e22. Set up of Lisa Gaeta, Impact Personal Safety \u003cbr/\u003e 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Gaeta, Impact Personal Safety\u003cbr/\u003e\" The thing about personal safety is that there is no one else in the whole world that can take care of you but you. Women often think, well my father will protect me or my brother or my husband. As we grow up through our lives, we always think that there will be men around to take care of you, even the police but there aren't. They're not. They aren't here with me now. The only person who can take care of me, is me, so I know that I can physically defend myself .That's the most important thing because safety is the most important thing in our lives \" \u003cbr/\u003e24. Pullout of student climbing with instructor \u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (English) James DeMalignon, Rock climbing instructor \u003cbr/\u003e\" We've all seen the Bond movies where he's rappelling out of helicopters, off of cliffs, out of buildings, so that's one aspect. The other aspect is one of strength and the dexterity you get from actual climbing and trust in your body to be able to perform those moves at any kind of heights \" \u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE (English) Rana Joy Glickman, Spy School student \u003cbr/\u003e\" I took Spy School because I wanted to be able to perform and I wanted to be able to transform and I wanted to able to travel the world as an insider as the cultures shift. Ultimately, when I started participating, my whole life started opening up. I stopped feeling like I was living in a box \" \u003cbr/\u003e27. Push in to makeup disguise being done \u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE (English) Sascha Ferguson, Absolution Gym, West Hollywood \u003cbr/\u003e\" Most of the clients who come to Spy School are looking for a little excitement and a little adventure or a little fantasy play in their life and they strike gold when they hear about Spy School. They come flying in from other cities. They come with all their friends. It's really cool \" \u003cbr/\u003e29. Student Katie Killean wearing disguise wig \u003cbr/\u003eFictional characters like 'James Bond' and 'Charlie's Angles' have popularised the image of the secret agent. \u003cbr/\u003eFemale empowerment in movies means that Bond girls no longer stand around and wait to be rescued, they are able to defend themselves and perform daredevil stunts. \u003cbr/\u003eNow real women in California are enrolling in classes that promises to prepare them for a world of espionage, increase their confidence ability to defend themselves .....and provide a good workout. \u003cbr/\u003eKatie Killean is learning how to shoot a firearm. \u003cbr/\u003eShe is not joining the police or army..... but learning the skills of espionage. \u003cbr/\u003ePromising its students a Bond-girl physique body, empowerment and keeping fit, 'Spy School' is proving very popular in Los Angeles. \u003cbr/\u003eAbsolution Gym in West Hollywood, was best known for its award-winning Pilates studio. \u003cbr/\u003eNow it is known as the base for Spy School, it's most requested programme.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 30 hour course is spread over 8 weeks, and taught by over 30 instructors. \u003cbr/\u003eIt promises a workout alongside life skills like helping students set boundaries, make decisions and get more out of life. \u003cbr/\u003eOwner Sascha Ferguson says 'Spy School' teaches everything you need to know to be a spy, firing a weapon, scaling the side of a building, aerial trapeze, hand to hand combat and disguise.\u003cbr/\u003eAt Spy School, students learn how to fire a weapon, defend themselves against an assailant or climb a building or jump off a 30 foot cliff. \u003cbr/\u003eMark Worland, the special-forces weapons instructor, says he teaches students how to use firearms safely. \u003cbr/\u003eKatie Killean says that as a child she dreamed of being one of \"Charlie's Angels\" and after a traumatic divorce she enrolled in course. \u003cbr/\u003eTrapeze helps with everything from strength, breathing and fear of heights. \u003cbr/\u003eInstructor Elizabeth Newton, is a trapeze artist with the performing group 'Cirque Du Soleil'. \u003cbr/\u003eShe says that secret agents never know when they may have to make a quick getaway or climb a tree to spy on someone. \u003cbr/\u003eStudent Kim Marks, from Portland Oregon flew to LA to intensive Spy School classes because she wanted to gain strength after \u003cbr/\u003esuffering from thyroid cancer.\u003cbr/\u003eShannon Conte, 35, an actress from Los Angeles says the course has given her confidence. \u003cbr/\u003eBrian Schwartz teaches self-defence, which he says is useful for women to empower them to set boundaries with others who may pose a threat. \u003cbr/\u003eLisa Geata, CEO of the personal security company, Impact Personal Safety takes the personal safety classes. \u003cbr/\u003eShe says that modern women can no longer rely on men to come to their defence and need to be able to take care of themselves. \u003cbr/\u003eJames Bond is often 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