10-Week Series · Women Only
Women's Self-Defense
Take your self-care to the next level. Ten Saturday mornings spent strengthening your confidence, your skills and your stamina, so that you can live informed, not in fear.
Take your self-care to the next level. Ten Saturday mornings spent strengthening your confidence, your skills and your stamina, so that you can live informed, not in fear.
One-day seminars are a good introduction. They are not enough time to make anything stick. This series runs ten consecutive Saturday mornings so you can learn a skill, drill it, come back the next week and find it still there. That repetition is the whole point.
We start standing, with strikes and footwork, and work through boundaries, grabs and chokes before moving to the ground. Every technique is taught for a real body in a real situation, not a competition. Come as you are. No experience needed, and no assumptions about your size, shape, age or fitness.
Strikes, footwork, and blocking punches
Get up, stay up, hold your ground
Boundaries and keeping distance
Escaping grabs and chokes
Turning the tables from underneath
Using the guard to your advantage
The one movement that gets you out
Chokes, and how to escape them
Eight topics across ten weeks, with the later ones given more than one session so there is time to drill them properly.
Ten sessions, one price, one group of women who start and finish together. Space is limited so everyone gets real attention on the mat.
$199Inaugural pricing
Saturdays, September 12 through November 14 · 9:00 - 10:15am · 1011 King St, Alexandria
Register for the Series2nd Dan, Karate
Karate · Japanese Ju-Jitsu · Muay ThaiBea is a 2nd-degree black belt in Karate, a practitioner of Japanese ju-jitsu, and got her martial arts start in Muay Thai kickboxing. More importantly, she is a petite woman and a mom of four girls who feels passionately about teaching all women, regardless of size, shape or age, relevant skills to empower them to walk more confidently, be better aware of their surroundings, and have tools available if a bad situation should ever arise.
Weeks 5 through 10 cover the ground material: mount escapes, guard, shrimping, and chokes. View the full studio schedule for everything else we run.
This is built for beginners. If you have never thrown a punch or been on a mat, you are exactly who this series is for. If you already train, you will still find plenty to work on.
Comfortable athletic clothes and bare feet on the mat. No uniform, no equipment to buy. Bring water and hair tied back if it is long.
Some of this material is uncomfortable by nature. Everything is taught at a pace you control, with partners who are there for the same reason you are.
Ten Saturdays, September 12 through November 14, 9:00 to 10:15am at 1011 King St. $199 for the inaugural series.