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| Really,motorcycle mufflers, I had no idea all this would happen, Ms. Jessup says from her home in Vancouver, Wash. It's been amazing. I just thought that maybe I could help my friends at school. It's been an unlikely journey for Jessup. Her 45-minute video, made in 2006 when she was just 14, has been downloaded 1.8 million times from her Web page, www.justyellfire.com. A year ago, she finished her second video, targeting college-aged girls.After graduating from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., #file_links[D:\keywords4.txt,motorcycle exhaust,1,S] in May with a degree in communications, Jessup plans to continue directing her nonprofit organization, called Just Yell Fire. I love what I do, she says. I love doing presentations. Working one-on-one with the girls is one of the most rewarding things I do. Her journey began at age 10 when she announced at the dinner table one evening that she wanted to start dating. Her parents' approval was conditional: First, she'd have to earn a black belt in martial arts, they told her. We didn't think she'd ever do that, says her mom, Maggie Jessup.Eventually, with bruises to prove it, Dallas did receive a black belt in tae kwon do at age 13. Shortly after that, her mother showed her a video about the abduction of an 11-year-old girl in Florida. Dallas wanted to do something, Mrs. Jessup says. She wanted to help. It was a typical reaction for her.While most people don't move beyond thinking isn't that horrible, as a child Jessup often had shown a willingness to take action. Her father, Jay Jessup, remembers an experience at his daughter's ballet class when she was 6 years old.A new girl, whose family had just moved to the US from Pakistan, came in wearing clothes not culturally in style in the US. The other girls were making fun of this girl, he recalls. Dallas went to the little girl and made her feel comfortable. Then Dallas went to the father and talked to him about the clothes his daughter was wearing. At the next ballet practice, the girl came wearing American-style clothes that helped her fit in. I can tell you hundreds of stories like that about Dallas, Mr. Jessup says. She'd go out of her way to do the right thing. She was always that way. Spurred by the eerie footage #file_links[D:\keywords5.txt,1,S] of the Florida abduction, Jessup wanted to make a video of herself using martial arts to fend off an abductor. But first her mother insisted that she take a scriptwriting class. The teacher of that class was so impressed with the message of the script that he #file_links[D:\keywords1.txt,1,S] put her in contact with a Portland film producer, Takafumi Uehara.Mr. Uehara was also impressed, enough to enlist the help of several more professionals. What had started out as a homema #file_links[D:\keywords2.txt,1,S] de production turned into a first-class film. The professionals involved donated their time and resources. A video that could easily have cost $500,000 to produce cost about $8,000.Jessup was the star of the video. She showed how to use martial arts and Filipino street fighting skills to escape attacker #file_links[D:\keywords3.txt,1,S] s. Once, her demonstration was too real: She accidentally injured her pretend attacker, a burly young man, by gouging him in the eye. (Her self-defense techniques target three areas: the eyes, the ears, and the groin.) He laid there for about 30 minutes, Mr. Jessup says. |
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