Empower Self-Defense Print CE Course

Print Course

Course components are delivered as printed products:

• Manual
  
• 2 DVDs
  
• Continuing education exam

Empower Self-Defense Print CE Course will teach you to demonstrate and perform basic defense strategies and techniques, including proper neutral and defensive stance; evasion and redirection techniques; and skills for the development of maximum power, speed, and accuracy. Help your clients discover the importance of the four types of awareness as they relate to personal security.

The course addresses specific self-defense techniques and strategies for a multitude of situations and attacks, including strikes, grabs, holds, bear hugs, hammerlocks, and chokes as well as evasion, redirection, loosening, and escape techniques. It also reviews the differences among fitness, martial arts, and self-defense training; discusses proper conditioning for self-defense; and explains the legal liabilities of self-defense. The course concludes with a continuing education exam for credit through participating organizations.

Course Objectives

• Explain the four types of awareness as they relate to personal security training (mental, emotional, environmental, and physical).
  
• Demonstrate and perform basic self-defense strategies and techniques, including proper neutral and defensive stance; evasion and redirection techniques; and skills for maximal power, speed, and accuracy in the execution of elbow strikes, palm heel strikes, knee strikes, front kicks, side kicks, and stomps.
  
• Identify primary and secondary targets for specific techniques.
  
• Outline basic personal safety concepts, strategies, and techniques related to strikes and movements.
  
• Progressively teach and practice basic self-defense strategies and techniques in the execution against various types of attacks, including chokes, bear hugs, hair grabs, headlocks, full nelson, shoulder and lapel grabs, hammerlocks, and arm bars.
  
• Demonstrate how to combine loosening techniques with striking techniques.
  
• Teach basic self-defense concepts.
  
• Instruct specific methods of cardiorespiratory training that would be required for the performance of physical self-defense activities.
  
• Demonstrate safe and proper muscular endurance, strength, and power exercises specific to self-defense technique and movement training.
  
• Explain how to apply the concept of progressive overload to self-defense training and conditioning.

Audience

A continuing education course for personal trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, and other fitness professionals.

Table of Contents

Phase 1: Self-Defense Training

Why Learn Self-Defense?

Legal Liability

Fitness Training vs. Self-Defense Training

Preparation For and Understanding the Potential Consequences of Conflict

Principles of Personal Security

Body Language

Awareness—The Offensive Weapon

Physical Instruction

Phase 2: Self-Defense Training

Martial Arts Training vs. Self-Defense Training

Legal Liability

Awareness

Preparation for Self-Defense Against Grabs & Holds

Physical Instruction

Phase 1 & Phase 2: Putting It All Together

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