Kahn's Practical Self-Defense
Mixed Martial Arts for the Real World
These are accelerated classes that teach basic Self-Defense and are taught in just a few hours.
(Seminars may be used as the basis for starting a longer-term class)
ALL SEMINARS ARE OFFERED TO INDIVIDUALS AND SMALL OR LARGE GROUPS
We have been teaching self-defense for corporations, High Schools and Colleges, Men's and Women's Groups, YMCAs, Towns and Cities since 1982.
These unique seminars offer practical, useful information, guidelines and techniques for a variety of inherently dangerous situations.
Physical assaults, rape, abduction, carjackings, and home invasions are all real risks of today's world.
Learn practical strategies and techniques to meet these real-world dangers:
We cover both physical and verbal defense as well as mental awareness with important concepts that could save your life. Many self-defense situations have simple solutions. Learn practical strategies and effective techniques for real life situations.
Use your mind as your first and best weapon to avoid the conflict altogether. Verbal de-escalation if you find yourself in a dangerous situation and your body to physically defend your self when you have no other way out. This class is for women of all ages, teenager to senior citizen, and anyone who realizes, "it could happen to me!"
One study, commissioned by the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape, which is a part of the National Institute of Mental Health in the USA, showed that women who are the most aggressive in their resistance and who use the most methods of resistance are the ones with the greatest chance of escaping rape and other additional harm. (It's important to know that the study showed this is true regardless of the size of the woman.)
Can you really protect yourself?
Can you really protect your loved ones, the people that rely on you?
This unique seminar on urban self-defense offers men practical, usable information, guidelines and hard-core self-defense techniques for a variety of inherently dangerous situations including tips for the business traveler.
Basic "street smart" concepts are explored and demonstrated. Mental awareness is as key as physical ability. We discuss strategies to avoid conflict altogether, but when you're given no way out you will have a fierce and deliberate response.
College is a great adventure. It is also a great responsibility. Your teachers are there to guide you through the academics. You are responsible for the personal side, which includes your physical and emotional safety.
You're leaving home, taking on a great amount of independence. No Mom, Dad or boyfriend to fall back on. You need to be able to rely on yourself. Often in college you're on your own, walking to and from night classes, in and out of fraternity parties, dorm rooms and parking lots. You need to be able to walk confidently, live confidently; you need to learn how to protect yourself.
TO THE PARENTS: You've done everything you could to protect your daughter for the first eighteen years of her life. Now she's college bound and on her own to protect herself.
Send her off with the mental and physical tools that can help keep her safe.
You can't be with them as they go off to college to get an education, but this class will educate them now, before they go, on how to protect themselves. The incidence of attacks on freshmen is much higher than it is at any other time. Letting go is hard but don't let that stop you from realizing the need for them to have this knowledge.
U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs.
Alberto R. Gonzales – Attorney General
810 Seventh Street N.W.
Washington D.C. 20531
Administrators want their campuses to be safe havens for students as they pursue their education and mature intellectually and socially. But institutions of higher education are by no means crime free; woman students have a high risk for sexual assault.
Just under 3% of all college women become victims of rape (either completed or attempted) in a given 9 month academic year. On first glance, the risk seems low, but the percentage translated into the disturbing figure of 35 such crimes for every 1,000 women students. For a campus with 10,000 women students the number could reach 350. If that percentage is projected to a full calendar year, the proportion rises to nearly 5 percent of college women. When projected over a now typical 5 year college career, ONE IN 5 young women experiences rape during college.
Counter to widespread stranger rape myths, in the vast majority of these crimes – between 80 and 90 percent – victim and assailant know each other. In fact, the more intimate the relationship, the more likely it is for a rape to be completed rather than attempted. Half of all student victims do not label the incident "rape". This is particularly true when no weapon was used, no sign of physical injury is evident, and alcohol was involved – factors commonly associated with campus acquaintance rape. Given the extent of non stranger rape on campus, it is no surprise that the majority of victimized women do not define their experience as a rape.
If you won’t do it for yourself do it with her
Can you think of anything more important for you both, and now you can do it together. This is a class no woman or young woman you care about should miss!