Lake Zurich Family Martial Arts

Martial Arts in Lake Zurich

(847) 726-2278

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Lake Zurich Women's Self Defense

College Bound Self-Defense

College is a big step in everyone’s life, and an experience that should be cherished. This class focuses on ensuring the safety of your child while they experience the opportunities that college has to offer. Through this class, the student will learn basic street self-defense in regards to where on the body to strike and how to properly strike an attacker. The class focuses heavily on how to become more aware of your surroundings such as learning how to pay attention to who is around you and how to present yourself in a confident manner to reduce being targeted by an attacker. The class also has a large focus on sexual assault and rape prevention in college dorms and apartments. The students will be educated on what rape and sexual assault is, what you are legally allowed to do to protect yourself, what actions there are to take in case you become a victim of this crime, and precautions to take in order to reduce your chances of being targeted by a sexual predator. The instructors will go over how safety concerns if the student were to partake in drinking at parties or bars and how to ensure that they maintain control of themselves in situations like this. The instructors will put the students in certain situations that will stimulate specific situations they may experience in college.

This class is taught by Senior Instructor David Heineman and Tracey Goodyear. Tracey is a police officer who brings years of experience and knowledge regarding personal safety.

Safe Daughters™

Safe Daughters is a not-for-profit organization established to educate young women about rape prevention and awareness. Safe Daughters goal is to empower young women to defend themselves against sexual assault and violence. Safe Daughters, through local junior high schools, provides a series of rape prevention and awareness and street self-defense classes.

Rape Prevention and Awareness Program

Safe Daughters Rape Prevention and Awareness Program is taught to young women in eighth grade and high school.

Safe Daughters instructors are AWSDA (American Women’s Self Defense Association) Certified Rape Prevention Instructors.

Topics covered include:

Tricks of the bad guys
How not to be picked as a target
Home safety
Automobile safety
Avoiding assault situations
How to use your voice
Effective boundary setting
Self-defense techniques

Rape Statistics

The statistics are staggering:

Once every forty-five seconds a woman is sexually assaulted in the United States
A woman who has been sexually assaulted knows her assailant 80% to 90% of the time
Only 10% of all sexual assaults are reported every year
You can increase your chances of averting a sexual assault 80% by fighting back
Parking lots are playground for the bad guys

The American Medical Association calls sexual assault in the United States a “silent-violent epidemic”.

Myths

Kicking a man in the groin is the best technique
Women are too passive to defend themselves
A woman is no match for a man in self-defense
A woman should stop with one strike to a vulnerable area
Women should not carry weapons because they could be taken away
A woman is helpless if her arms are secured by her attacker
A woman cannot effectively defend herself on the ground
Body language is not important to self-defense
You cannot control your fear when assaulted
You can only avoid rape by physical defense techniques
You can and should depend on a man to protect you
The rapist and woman abuser is not really a criminal
There are specific characteristics to identify a rapist
Awareness and safety precautions are not really self-defense
Most women are aware of their own natural weapons

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