Self Defense Training – Women’s Basic Course
“This experience changed my life for the better.
I broke chains. I broke Free of the past because of Model Mugging.”
Model Mugging Graduate
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Empowerment Self Defense in a Weekend
Female self defense instructors will coach students throughout each fighting scenario.
Established in 1971, Model Mugging® is the original Adrenaline Stress Training course and originator of the padded attacker.
“Model Mugging receives my highest recommendation. Even though I knew it was a good quality program, I wasn’t exactly sure what I would be doing. The course was life-changing! I am really out of shape and couldn’t believe that I could handle two days of physical activity.
It was also very emotional but so worth it. It sounds so cliche, but I really do feel empowered by the knowledge I gained in this course. As a woman, it is so encouraging to feel that I can protect myself if all other safety nets fail. I hope this encourages you to take that step.”
Cameron – recent course graduate (2025)
Self Defense Course Description
Student successfully finishes the fight with a full force kick to the padded assailant’s head.
We found the two-day whole weekend personalized rape defense classes to be very effective for women, especially those with busy schedules.
By combining martial science and extensive research from multiple disciplines into this comprehensive self-defense course, we’ve been able to reduce the training time needed to learn new skills while still improving personal performance and proficiency.
Derived from analyzing thousands of crimes, comprehensive literature review, and interviews with predators and survivors to determine the “what, how, and why” of effective crime prevention and self-defense skills.
Our unique methodologies of education, students learn to utilize all their senses and engage in self-defense training, which results in long-lasting heightened self-confidence and the ability to select positive options.
Students commonly comment on the difference it makes when hitting an assailant with full power, and do it safely.
Day One: Basic Women’s Self Defense Course
By combining martial science and extensive research from multiple disciplines into this comprehensive self-defense course, we’ve been able to reduce the training time needed to learn new skills
Student receives coaching instruction during first fight in the Basic self defense course.
- Sets the foundation needed for full force reality-based self-defense training.
- Mindset for Fighting Back
- Crime Prevention Pyramid
- How Crime Is an Emotional, Physical, and Cognitive Problem
- Types of Violence
- Criminal Mindset and behavioral patterns
- Origins of Predator Motivations
- Effective boundary and assertiveness skills
Learning awareness strategies, personal behavioral assessment, while physically learning simple countermeasures against how predators commonly attack women.
As students practice verbal de-escalation and negotiation, boundary setting, and refine their physical self-defense skills against our Padded Assailant, which helps lock the skills into muscle memory.
Female instructors model strength and courage. They mentor each student to achieve success through personalized scenarios.
Male instructors are trained how to wear the protective equipment and taught how to portray the actions and characteristics of offenders while also teaching students during their scenarios.
Day Two: Basic Women’s Self Defense Course
Student defends herself in the Basic women’s self-defense course.
- Learn methods to identify and how to exploit criminal vulnerability vulnerabilities.
- Dynamics of Sex Crimes
- Four Phases of Assault
- Rapist Typologies and the motivation behind predators’ behavioral patterns
- Drug Facilitated Sexual Assaults
- Legalities of Defending Yourself
- Defense when Attacked from Behind and Lying Down
- Options When Confronted by Assailants Who May Be Acquaintances and Strangers if Boundary Setting & Conflict De-escalation Are Not Working.
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Basic Women’s Self Defense Course Outcomes
- Learn proven successful options to resolve fears about being attacked in a street crime and crime committed within relationships.
- Develop practical, free flow fighting skills that become embedded into your body’s long-term muscle memory.
- Full force training against a single, unarmed attacker.
- Discover how to transform your fear into a source of strength.
- Turn fear into empowerment and harness fear as a powerful life tool.
- You Can Do It!
“After the course, my chronic stress level went down… I was more prepared and less afraid….”
Model Mugging Graduate
Model Mugging Self Defense Advantage
Students support each other after one completes their scenario against the padded assailant.
- Over 50 years of applied research and experience providing empowerment self-defense training.
- Our maximum class size for self-defense is 12 students, ensures a high instructor-to-student ratio that delivers safe and superior self-defense training.
- Practice scenarios are individualized to develop every student’s unique physical and emotional capabilities, thereby maintaining individual and group supportive settings.
- Decades after taking the Model Mugging Self Defense course, graduate testimonials have repeatedly stated that they learned to channel fear and effectively CHANGED THEIR LIVES!
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