6 Week Women's Self-Defense Course

Can you commit to spending time on yourself just one hour each week (for 6 weeks)?

Women stay busy, especially women with children. But can you allow 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).

Learn more and register for our 6 Week Women Only Self-Defense Course:

https://www.synergydefenseandfitness.com/women-s-self-defense-course

This course is every Monday evening from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm starting 5/22/16, ending 6/26/17.

Open to girls and women ages 13 and over.

Simple Self-Defense

You don't have to train for years or dress like you're in the military to be able to protect yourself. But you do have to train at some point, to learn, and you do have to make it a point to be aware of your surroundings. Taking simple precautions such as not walking too close to a corner, could mean the difference between being assaulted and not.

Here's a video we put out awhile ago that demonstrates a simple tenet of environmental awareness: recognize that an unseen threat could be close at hand AND there are simple things you can do to give yourself a little more space (physical and mental) to fend off an attacker.

Here's a video published by Gracie University. This video highlights an ubiquitous, unspoken criticism of women who are assaulted. It follows the social commentary with practical advice: learn self-defense! Altogether a great video!

Facts about violence against women:

Fact #1: 18.3% of women in the United States have survived a completed or attempted rape. (National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2010)

Fact #2: Almost two-thirds of all rapes are committed by someone who is known to the victim. 73% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger (— 48% of perpetrators were a friend or acquaintance of the victim, 17% were an intimate and 8% were another relative.) (National Crime Victimization Survey 2010)

Fact #3: 63.84% of women who reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked since age 18 were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date. (National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2010)

Fact #4: Of female rape or sexual assault victims in 2010, 25 percent were assaulted by a stranger, 48 percent by friends or acquaintances, and 17 percent were intimate partners. (National Crime Victimization Survey 2010)

Fact #5: Almost 10% of high school students are victims of dating violence each year. (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance 2009)

Fact #6: The Campus Sexual Assault Study estimated that between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 college women experience completed or attempted rape during their college years. (National Institute of Justice 2007)

Fact #7: About one-third of female murder victims ages 12 or older are killed by an intimate partner. (Department of Justice 2007)

Fact #8: Offenders have been reported to be armed with a gun, knife or other weapon in 11 percent of rape or sexual assault victimizations. (Criminal Victimization, Bureau of Justice, 2010)

Fact #9: Factoring in unreported rapes, about 6% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail. 15 out of 16 will walk free. (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) calculation based on US Department of Justice 2010 Statistics)

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