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Simple Steps to Fend Off Attackers-CBS News 7/12/10

Watch Gabrielle on CBS-"How To Protect Yourself" Aug 2009

See safety tips from Gabrielle on CBS News-Nov 2008

introduction
 
This course is designed to make you more aware, prepared, and ready for any situation that may occur in your everyday life on any given day.
This course differs from other self defense classes in that they start from the point of attack, where as I teach you about the "Illusion of Safety" and all the elements and tools to avoid the attack altogether.


The 2 hour class covers the following:

• How to avoid being a target

• How to properly assess your surroundings

• How to react to a confrontation

• How to conduct yourself in a crisis

• How, when, and where to strike if assaulted
• Physical techniques: strikes, defenses, releasing from grabs



The course is taught two ways:
Either set up a private course for your group 
Contact Us page
[small groups of 6-20 in NYC /large groups of 15 or more-anywhere in the U.S.]
or see the
Upcoming Classes  page for open enrollment classes.
 
 

I designed this course as a one time, 2 hour class because I know how busy we all are in our day to day lives. Don't be fooled that a 5 week course will teach you more. They will crowd your mind with hard to execute techniques, that in fact, could cause more danger for you. Most women, after they take a self defense course, walk away thinking they would be ready and prepared for a situation months after their course; not true.

My class is fun and engaging...afterall, self defense should not be a scary thing, it should make you feel smarter and stronger.  I guarantee you will leave my class immediately feeling empowered and more confident.

I have studied 3 styles of karate (Goju-ryu, Kenpo, Jujitsu) in my 22 years with the martial arts. I specialize in in-close fighting, disabling my opponent, and mental strategy. Being the highest ranked student in my dojo and the only woman who has sustained this level, I designed this course for the awareness and protection of women as a way to give back some of what I have learned.


—Gabrielle Rubin, Founder/Course Instructor

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Gabrielle Rubin, Founder/Instructor
 
 

Be Safe * Be Smart * Be Strong