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Empower Self Defense
Expand your skill set and ensure the personal safety of your clients!
By Tim Rochford


Discover the importance of the four types of awareness as they relate to personal security. Then dive into specific self-defense techniques and strategies for a multitude of situations and a variety of attacks, including strikes, grabs, holds, bear hugs, hammerlocks and chokes. Tim comprehensively covers evasion, redirection, loosening and escape techniques, reviews the differences among fitness, martial arts and self-defense training, discusses proper conditioning for self-defense and explains the legal liabilities of self-defense.



Course Objectives

  • Explain the four types of awareness, as they relate to personal security training (mental, emotional, environmental, and physical).
  • Demonstrate and perform basic self defense strategies and techniques, including proper neutral/defensive stance, evasion and, re-direction techniques, skills for the development of maximum potential power, speed, and accuracy in the execution of Elbow Strikes, Palm Heel Strikes, Knee Strikes, Front Kick, and Side Kick/Stomp.
  • Identify primary and secondary targets for specific techniques.
  • Outline basic personal safety concepts, strategies and techniques related to strikes and movements.
  • Progressively teach and practice basic self defense strategies and techniques in the execution against various types of attacks, including Chokes, Bear hugs, Hair grabs, Headlocks, Full nelson, Shoulder/Lapel grabs, Hammerlocks, Arm bars.
  • Demonstrate how to combine loosening techniques with striking techniques.
  • Teach basic self defense concepts.
  • Instruct specific methods of cardiovascular training that would be required for the performance of physical self defense activities.
  • Demonstrate safe and proper muscular endurance, strength and power conditioning exercises specific to self-defense technique and movement training.
  • Explain how to apply the concept of Progressive Overload to self-defense training and conditioning.
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    Course Includes: 
  • Exam
  • 323-pg manual
  • 2 DVDs

  • Exam is not available online. Student will submit exam (shipped with study materials) to author for grading.
    Topic: Specialty Training
    Level: Intermediate
    Weight: 2.0 lbs
    Complete Printed Course  #4556     $229.00

    CECs
    ACE 2.00
    ACSM 20.00
    AEA 10.00
    AFPA 8.00
    CI 20.00
    ECA 20.00
    ISSA 20.00
    NAFC 2.00
    NASM 1.90
    NASN 2.00
    NCSF 7.00
    NETA 20.00
    NFPT 1.00
    NSPA 20.00
    W.I.T.S. 20.00