Four Point
Four Point is the course title given to the woman's self defense course we offer. It is designed from Taijutsu and utilizes simple but highly effective movement for use in a wide variety of circumstances under stress. Unlike many other self defense course however, our focus is on awareness. Certainly physical training is a part of the course, but it takes a backseat to learning and employing new awareness skills to avoid many situations before they occur.
Many self defense courses are less than realistic in three distinct ways.
1) They focus their training on the idea of being attacked by a stranger on the street, in a parking lot or other isolated area. This does indeed happen, but more often than not, a woman's attacker is someone that they know. Being familiar with the precursors and signs of domestic violence is often times minimized or not included in this sort of training.
2) The idea that weapons disarms can be effectively taught briefly as a very small part of a total class and then be expected to be used effectively under stress, weeks, months or even years down the road instills in students a false sense of their own abilities that does them a great disservice. Neutralizing a weapons attack is realistic and quite possible, but requires more than a few minutes of training. Our supplemental weapons courses address these topics in detail, allowing the time needed for the desired effectiveness.
3) The training does not take the life experience and individual circumstances of the student into effect. Training must be done in a manner allowing the skills to be taken and freely adapted to suit the lives of each person taking part. Otherwise it will never be practical for those participating.
4) Most training does not focus on helping the student know when they are in a dangerous situation in the first place.
Our solution is to incorporate as much information as possible regarding basic principles of security, preventing domestic violence, and closing gaps in our day to day actions and habits that tend to make people generally less secure.
Supplemental training
Edged weapons: This course is focused not on the use of edged weapons but on how to defend against and neutralize them to allow for your safe escape from the situation. Built on the same principles of movement in the basic class, here we focus that same movement on evasion, redirection, and escaping from the use of edged weapons. Training gradually builds in intensity to more realistically approximate the stress of actual situations. (All physical training includes the use of non edged training weapons).
Firearms: Working on the same principles and guidelines as the other courses, this training utilizes the same fundamental movement, but also deals with specific issues that are related to the physical characteristics and operation of modern firearms. Like all other training, safety is of paramount importance and training weapons are used for all physical work during this course.
Chemical Agents: This class differs slightly in that is approaches your use of pepper spray or other similar items as part of self defense. The course includes a realistic look at the effectiveness of these agents, how they are best used and carried, as well as potential legal implications involved in their use.
Courses run 8 hour in duration with a 1 hour lunch break.
Cost: 40.00 per person for basic or supplemental courses (The fundamental movement learned in he basic course is required prior to weapons training).
For more information regarding this training or to schedule a class please email the dojo at [email protected] or call 520-419-4052
Many self defense courses are less than realistic in three distinct ways.
1) They focus their training on the idea of being attacked by a stranger on the street, in a parking lot or other isolated area. This does indeed happen, but more often than not, a woman's attacker is someone that they know. Being familiar with the precursors and signs of domestic violence is often times minimized or not included in this sort of training.
2) The idea that weapons disarms can be effectively taught briefly as a very small part of a total class and then be expected to be used effectively under stress, weeks, months or even years down the road instills in students a false sense of their own abilities that does them a great disservice. Neutralizing a weapons attack is realistic and quite possible, but requires more than a few minutes of training. Our supplemental weapons courses address these topics in detail, allowing the time needed for the desired effectiveness.
3) The training does not take the life experience and individual circumstances of the student into effect. Training must be done in a manner allowing the skills to be taken and freely adapted to suit the lives of each person taking part. Otherwise it will never be practical for those participating.
4) Most training does not focus on helping the student know when they are in a dangerous situation in the first place.
Our solution is to incorporate as much information as possible regarding basic principles of security, preventing domestic violence, and closing gaps in our day to day actions and habits that tend to make people generally less secure.
Supplemental training
Edged weapons: This course is focused not on the use of edged weapons but on how to defend against and neutralize them to allow for your safe escape from the situation. Built on the same principles of movement in the basic class, here we focus that same movement on evasion, redirection, and escaping from the use of edged weapons. Training gradually builds in intensity to more realistically approximate the stress of actual situations. (All physical training includes the use of non edged training weapons).
Firearms: Working on the same principles and guidelines as the other courses, this training utilizes the same fundamental movement, but also deals with specific issues that are related to the physical characteristics and operation of modern firearms. Like all other training, safety is of paramount importance and training weapons are used for all physical work during this course.
Chemical Agents: This class differs slightly in that is approaches your use of pepper spray or other similar items as part of self defense. The course includes a realistic look at the effectiveness of these agents, how they are best used and carried, as well as potential legal implications involved in their use.
Courses run 8 hour in duration with a 1 hour lunch break.
Cost: 40.00 per person for basic or supplemental courses (The fundamental movement learned in he basic course is required prior to weapons training).
For more information regarding this training or to schedule a class please email the dojo at [email protected] or call 520-419-4052