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.