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Seminars & Workshops
Several times through out the year, we hold special self-defense, fitness, and mobility seminars focusing on specific themes.
Parent-Child Safety in Public Seminar (2 hours)
This seminar is designed for the entire family and focuses on teaching parents simple principles to defend themselves and their kids when threatened with an assault while together in public. We will focus on both armed and unarmed defensive tactics, weapons response, and take-over procedures. We will cover concepts like keeping kids at a safe distance behind you if accosted, so the kids don’t get within reach of the assailant. The ability to evaluate risks and threats, and develop counter measures and preventative strategies, including appropriate judgment in the use of force, verbal skills and tactical techniques, will also be covered. Parent-child communication during an emergency or potential emergency, is a point of particular focus in our seminar. Students will experience realistic threat scenarios to deal with and improvise solutions.
Home Invasion Seminar (2 hours)
This seminar is designed for the entire family and focuses on teaching parents simple principles to defend themselves and their kids when threatened by an intruder entering the home—from a burglar not expecting anyone to be home to a violent aggressor prepared to hurt you and your family. This reality-based training seminar will teach what to do when every second counts. We will focus on unarmed response against one or more armed or unarmed intruders. Students will learn how to use everyday objects as defensive weapons. Students will also develop a safety/response plan to be used with their families or roommates.
Active Shooter Seminar (1 to 1.5 hours)
Run! Barricade! Fight!
This seminar will help arm students with knowledge that to enable them to protect themselves and others in the case of violence in the work place or other public space. We will discuss situational awareness and responding quickly to threats. We will go over effective techniques for neutralizing the threat, and for protecting third parties.
Core Mobility Workshop with Felicia Lynn (2 hours)
Would you like to....
be more flexible,
move more fluidly,
move without pain,
move for fun again?
Would you like to....
strengthen your core,
increase your mobility,
sharpen your coordination?
Join Felicia Lynn at this 2 hour workshop to get started on your path to a stronger, more mobile you!
About Felicia
Felicia Lynn is a StrongFirst Certified Bodyweight and Kettlebell Level 1 Instructor, Level 2 to be completed in 2016. She is also a certified krav maga instructor who holds the rank of Graduate 4 under the Krav Maga Global affiliate. Felicia has been teaching krav maga since spring of 2012 and mobility classes since fall of 2012. She began teaching hardstyle kettlebell training in 2013, certified by StrongFirst, which is a hard-core school of strength. In 2015 she added bodyweight instruction to her arsenal, this being 1 arm 1 leg push ups, pistol squats, pull ups, hanging leg raises to name a few that she can program. Strength is skill; and teaching strength is Felicia's true passion.
Upcoming Seminars
Other Seminars We Offer (but have not scheduled)
Have a large group? We'd love to put on a seminar for you. Contact us for more information and scheduling.
Krav Maga 101 Seminar (2 hours)
Krav Maga is a self-defense system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that consists of a wide combination of techniques sourced from aikido, judo, boxing and wrestling, along with realistic fight training. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extremely efficient and brutal counter-attacks.
Topics/techniques covered include:
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Situational awareness
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Using your body’s natural weapons
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Fight stance and footwork
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Striking: punches, elbows, kicks, knees, etc.
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Various techniques for defenses to: chokes, knife threats/attacks, gun threats, bear hugs, wrist grabs
Appropriate attire is: active wear and tennis shoes or flat, non-slip shoes; please note that we will be practicing techniques, so your clothes must allow for a wide range of motion.
Open to men, women, and teens, ages 13 and older.
Attendance is free, but space is limited, so pre-register for a guaranteed spot.
Kettlebell 101 Seminar (2 hours)
A kettlebell is a cast-iron or cast steel weight (resembling a cannonball with a handle) used to perform ballistic exercises that combine cardiovascular, strength and flexibility training. Unlike traditional dumbbells, the kettlebell's center of mass is extended beyond the hand, which facilitates ballistic and swinging movements. The kettlebell allows for swing movements and release moves with added safety and added grip, wrist, arm and core strengthening. The unique shape of the kettlebell provides the "unstable force" for handling - key for the effectiveness of the kettlebell exercises.
Hardstyle kettlebell techniques we will cover:
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Deadlift
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Swing (two-handed and double)
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Goblet squat
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Military Press
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Clean
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Carries: farmers, suitcase, rack
Appropriate attire is: active wear and barefeet (or socks).
Open to men, women, and teens, ages 13 and older.
Attendance is free, but space is limited.
Intro to Ballistic 3 Seminar (3 hours)
BALLISTIC 3 is a street-oriented self-defense program designed with multiple opponents in mind. B3 trains each practitioner to use their own natural advantages, and encourages free thinking and exploration. Our bodies are all different, and consequentially, we all move in different ways. In B3, you train your own B3 rather than learning a system and programming yourself to imitate someone else's movements.
Appropriate attire is: active wear and tennis shoes or flat, non-slip shoes; please note that we will be practicing techniques, so your clothes must allow for a wide range of motion.
Open to men, women, and teens, ages 13 and older.
Attendance is free, but space is limited.
Women's Self-Defense Course - $125.00
Mondays from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm
May 22, 2017 to June 26, 2017
Attend Synergy's 6-week women's only self-defense course to learn simple, effective self-defense techniques that emphasize instinctive movements, practical methods, and realistic training scenarios.
Classes for this course meet every Monday from 5/22/17 to 6/26/17 from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Women stay busy, especially women with children. But can you commit to yourself just one hour a week to help provide you and your family safety in the future? Because when you learn self-defense, you learn it not only for yourself, but for those you care about who may be with you when/if you encounter a self-defense situation.
Techniques you will learn include:
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Escapes from bear hugs and chokes
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Escapes from sexual assault situations
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Soft & hard escapes from wrist grabs
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Defenses against knife and gun threats
What to expect:
Discussion about conflict, deescalation, escape and evasion, situational awareness, and mindset as well as hands on learning of practical self-defense techniques from a female instructor.
Appropriate attire is: active wear and tennis shoes or casual wear (i.e. jeans) with flat, non-slip shoes; please note that we will be practicing techniques, so your clothes must allow for a wide range of motion.
Open to girls and women ages 13 and older.
The price is $125.00 for the entire 6-week course. The price is the same if you join after the first week. Registration includes 6 weeks of our fitness program -- free!
According to the CDC, about 19.3% of women have been raped at least once in their lives. Additionally, an estimated 43.9% of women experienced other forms of sexual violence during their lives. And 15.2% of women have been a victim of stalking.
Fight Like Jason Bourne Seminar (2 hours)
Firearm training is great, and in fact, we highly recommend it. However, you never know when you will have to defend yourself or someone you love without your firearm. What if all you have on you is a pen, a half-full water bottle, and an umbrella. Or a hammer. Or a magazine.
Join us at our free seminar to learn how to fight with improvised weapons like Jason Bourne.
Kali is a Filipino martial art based on stick, knife, hand-to-hand, and improvised weapons training, and is sometimes called Arnis or Eskrima*. It is best known as the system used in the fight choreography for the Bourne films**.
Learn techniques for such improvised weapons as:
- a rolled up magazine
- a hammer or tomahawk
- anything stick like, such as an umbrella
- car keys
- a bottle of water
Appropriate attire is: active wear and tennis shoes or flat, non-slip shoes; please note that we will be practicing techniques, so your clothes must allow for a wide range of motion.
Open to men, women, and teens, ages 13 and older.
Attendance is free, but space is limited, so pre-register for a guaranteed spot.
*Kali, Arnis, and Eskrima are not the same, though many people use the terms interchangeably.
**The instructors at Synergy were in no way related to the training of the actors in the Bourne movies, nor do they claim to have been.
