Customized Self Defense Training

Custom defense training is a process that tailors techniques according to every student’s unique needs and skill levels. Reality based martial arts (RBMA) training can be customized for each student.  During RBMA training, the degree of realism can be dangerous to some students for various reasons, including safety concerns, situational needs, physical limitations, and varying levels of proficiency and conditioning. However, when self-defense is taught with compassion and encouragement, customizing self-defense scenarios can create life-changing experiences, especially for survivors of assault.

When students have physical limitations due to prior injuries, techniques, and self-defense scenarios must be modified accordingly. During Model Mugging classes, students can learn to overcome their physical, mental, and emotional limitations. As these students become more proficient with the skills they are learning. Their psychological limitations are expanded through a progressive application of speed and stress in subsequent scenarios within customized self-defense training.

Customizing Self Defense Scenarios

There are many factors when customizing scenarios and teaching self-defense to women. Sometimes, realism must be delayed when customizing self-defense training. For example, special attention during defensive skill building and scenario tailoring training may include working with a student’s prior injury(s), movement or joint limitations, weight, blindness, other medical conditions or disabilities, equilibrium or balance difficulties, headaches, and PTSD. Self-defense scenarios may be modified to ensure physical safety, such as avoiding contact with a student who has prior injuries or temporarily halting an attack so the student can safely get to the ground to prevent possible injury and then resuming the fight when they are ready.

Customized self-defense scenarios can be beneficial for survivors of crime as they work through their fears and concerns. Through each student’s self-defense journey, Model Mugging helps students build self-confidence and provides empowerment when they courageously address personal fears and other challenging emotions.

In our supportive environment for self-defense, students realize that their fears are common and shared among their classmates. Together, they build a supportive group that carries them down the path toward personal empowerment. Each class is different, and in a way, each group customizes its supportive nature during the course.

Custom Self Defense for Survivors

Most therapists who work with survivors of violent crime are familiar with Model Mugging Self Defense classes because our program is the original full-force self-defense program. It has received significant press since the late 1970s when the first article was published in Human Behavior Magazine. During class, self-defense scenarios are effectively customized according to a survivor’s history and personal fears, so they become victors who “slay the dragon of fear”.

Students often experience a sense of freedom when reenacting scenarios that resemble prior traumatic events or personal fears. For students suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), survivors should consult with their therapist before taking a self-defense course. Sometimes, the realism of the scenarios can be psychologically intense and can occasionally impair fluid fighting performance. However, when an instructor team works with survivors, survivors can effectively work through past traumas and find empowerment.

The Model Mugging program is not counseling or therapy. This self-defense program can enhance counseling therapy for many survivors of rape, intimate partner abuse, molestation, incest, sexual harassment, bullying, and stalking. Many psychologists attend our program as students. Some students have attended classes with their therapists, who are allowed co-participation in the training environment to assist with their patient’s healing (from past previous traumatic events) and help overcome their fears.

Because Model Mugging graduates are familiar with our curriculum, many gain additional insight and empowerment by re-taking the Basic self-defense course. Survivors may wish to work with instructors and customize scenarios according to their individual needs, focusing on personalizing their self-defense skills.

Other Custom Self Defense Options

Model Mugging may provide customized self-defense training for men, children of different ages, and special needs populations. Often, mothers want their daughters to attend and are recommended to assess their daughter’s age and maturity level before enrolling them in a Model Mugging course. Parents considering enrolling their girls should first review the section self defense classes for girls. Girls with special needs should have the class curriculum customized for their group’s abilities, which are dependent on cognitive, social, and physical concerns.

Customized self-defense also includes hosting a program for private groups or conducting courses at convenient locations.

The self-defense and crime prevention curriculum may also be customized to a particular group’s needs. For example, special needs groups will have a class curriculum customized according to cognitive, social, and physical concerns.

 

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