Comprehensive Self Defense Curriculum

Model Mugging is a comprehensive personal safety program that provides crime prevention and personal self-defense training that is comprised of two parts:

Part I: Crime Prevention and Awareness Strategies that also consider the behavioral patterns of criminals, situational awareness, personal behavioral assessment, resource identification, and methods to identify vulnerability and countermeasures that prevent danger.

Part II: Physical Self Defense Training that applies practical and realistic options to the developmental, physical, and emotional aspects of fighting. Physical skills must include vocalization, assertiveness, boundary setting, negotiation, identifying and using weaknesses and strengths, option selection and application, self-evaluation, and realistic physical skill development.

 

 

A program that selects one approach over the other is unlikely to be as effective as a curriculum that employs a combined approach.

Model Mugging intertwines the mental, physical, and emotional aspects of the sensitive issues surrounding violence against women into personal defense classes. Touching all the senses brings education and training into lasting attitude changes. Crime prevention provides students with the knowledge to recognize danger and avenues of avoiding bad situations altogether.

Specific benefits of the physical course cannot be obtained by osmosis, reading a book, or watching a video. The System is concerned with life-or-death issues. A little bit of knowledge can be more dangerous in some cases. Reading a book or others, watching videos, or observing a fighting class does not fully prepare or teach you the necessary skills needed to be safe in today’s violent world. Students need actual fighting experience and feedback from qualified instructors. Self-confidence is achieved through first-hand experience of protecting yourself. There is no substitute for a proper fighting course. Crime is a physical act; defending yourself against crime requires physical practice.

Crime Prevention works because most predators seek the path of least resistance. The harder you make it for them to attack you, the more likely it is that they will pick on someone else. Those who fail to prepare themselves against crime are left vulnerable for predators to prey upon.

 

Additional links describing what makes the Model Mugging Self Defense program different:

Supportive Designed Self Defense Program

Padded Assailant

Female Co-Instructors

Muscle Memory / Operant Conditioning

Emotions and Self-Confidence

PTSD and Self Defense

Progressive Training & Controlled Stress

Gentle Art of Conflict De-Escalation