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Robbers beware – don’t even think about trying to take something from, or harm Kelly Crawford, Lily Rowland, Chloe Goodwin, Alyssa Earley, Tressa Ratchford or the Puska girls.

They all just recently completed a self-defense course at HealthWorks Fitness Center led by Jim Bennett of El Dorado, a lawyer by day and a fifth-degree blackbelt in the evenings.

Crawford, 21, of Strong, said she took this course last year and just wanted to hone her self-defense skills so she signed up again this year.

She said classmates learned if they are grabbed by a...