Self Defense Costs or Fee Structures

How Much Does Self Defense Classes Cost?

Some considerations about the costs of self-defense:

1. How much should self-defense training cost?
2. Self-defense training is like insurance
3. Self-defense training and travel time
4. Related expenses for offering self-defense training
5. Self-defense instructor’s training and experience
6. Compare accurately what you want in self-defense
7. Model Mugging Tuition

1. How Much Should Self Defense Training Cost?

Model Mugging offers short, intense, and empowering weekend seminars and half-day or evening workshops. Unlike most conferences and continuing education classes, which often attract several hundred attendees and cost hundreds to thousands of dollars, Model Mugging courses are conducted in small groups with personalized experiences.

How much should self-defense training cost becomes subjective and objective.
Self defense training is usually on the lower end of the spectrum when compared to conferences. Also, learning self-defense online or from a book is an unrealistic expectation of effectiveness. Women attending classes find it most empowering to practice their learned skills in an adrenalized experience when learning to protect themselves.

First, consider how much self-defense training may cost compared to the expenses for food and housing, sporting and recreational events, insurance, travel, and even cosmetics, clothing, apparel, hair styling, and many other activities and products available on the market. No matter what you want to do or learn, everyday endeavors often involve specialized instruction of one kind or another.

2. Self Defense Training Is Like Insurance

Proponents of self-defense training consider self-protection preparedness the highest form of personal insurance. Your safety insurance improves with better training and experience. Because bad things can happen to good people, self-defense training is about being prepared. Avoiding danger, especially preventing crime, can save thousands in medical and counseling costs, as well as lost potential personal income. Being prepared often reduces the likelihood of needing to use the skills learned in self-defense training.

3. Self Defense Training and Travel Time

The time commitment can be an important factor for many people. Training and travel time should be factored into self-defense expense considerations. Traveling to classes over several years, after spending $75 to $150 per month or more on tuition for martial arts lessons, can exceed thousands of dollars in tuition and travel expenses. Depending on the location and martial arts style, tuition or training fees can vary significantly.

Returning to each person’s assessment of their training objective, some women travel long distances to acquire specific skills tailored to their personal needs. Many women have traveled across the United States and across oceans to take Model Mugging courses. Model Mugging offers training substantiated by firsthand, extensive research that redefined self-defense training back in the 1970s. Model Mugging continues to update the program with current research.

4. Related Expenses for Offering Self Defense Training

The most significant expense for self-defense instruction involves labor costs. Associated self-defense expenses, including equipment and instructors’ teaching credentials that qualify them to teach women, should be factored into selection considerations. Location and facility rental space are other factors that can impact tuition fees.

5. Self Defense Instructor’s Training and Experience

The quality of self defense instructor training should be an important factor. Instructors can incur thousands of dollars in developing the foundation in preparation for teaching a course. Student tuition may be reduced when a high school, college, or public safety department subsidizes the costs required to train instructors and pay their wages to hold courses.

Consider the experience they have teaching the subject you are interested in. Some specialties have evolved in self defense training. Teaching self-defense to women involves research, compassion, and dedication, which differs from teaching martial arts. Women self defense instructors should also have an understanding of how to work with survivors of assault and PTSD, along with creating a supportive environment. Research, training experience, and a qualified instructor team should be considered, especially when taking reality based self-defense training.

6. Compare Accurately What You Want in Self Defense

Compared to these, the prices of quick-fix items, security alarms, and other similar products may also cost several hundred dollars. Unlike proper self-defense training, weapons, gadgets, and gizmos are not always with you.

With proper training, any item can be used to enhance personal protection, from using a pen or hairbrush to pepper spray and firearms. Training the person provides greater benefits than buying the item alone.

The tuition for short duration self-defense courses can range from the donated time of instructors who do not charge for a session to several hundred dollars for a course.

7. Model Mugging Tuition

Model Mugging provides full force experience of striking a padded assailant, which is one part of the accelerated teaching methodologies of the program.

Padded assailant courses offering reality based self-defense training are NOT all alike and should be assessed before committing time and money. The padded assailant or mock attacker concept has been one of the most widely copied aspects of other programs that were originally developed by Model Mugging in 1972.

Model Mugging courses are conducted in small groups, which amortizes the costs of the program while also enhancing the supportive group setting found to be necessary for women’s learning and those who have had to use their skills to protect themselves.

In general, most training seminars on all types of subjects charge several hundred dollars in tuition and do not provide hands-on learning experiences. Most specialized seminars also attract several hundred attendees without providing personal interaction with the instructor(s). Conversely, Model Mugging keeps classes in small groups.

Model Mugging Self Defense seminars or courses offer reality based training experiences in a small-group environment of approximately 12 students. Model Mugging programs charge approximately $30 per student for each hour of training, which covers labor, equipment, space rental, and various administrative fees. The $30 to $35 hourly rate is standard for many martial arts instructors. However, the martial science training that Model Mugging provides accelerates learning and would amortize the cost to about $6 and 7$ per hour over the months of other programs. The training results that Model Mugging achieves in mindset over a weekend course substantiate what martial arts take years to do.

Additionally, Model Mugging students benefit from over 50 years of applied research and training experience offered by Model Mugging training. There have been many self-defense articles published about Model Mugging over the past four decades.

Hosting a self defense course and having Model Mugging instructors come to your location for a group of 10 to 12 can be an economical solution if a certified Model Mugging program is not located near your area.

 

Return to Choices in Self Defense Course and Self Defense for Women for more information.