Personal safety for women is a largely ignored subject. In today's hectic and rushed environment, personal concerns are more towards 'getting ahead', climbing that corporate ladder, or just rushing home to prepare dinner. But all it takes is one incident - for you to be victimized, and scarred for life.

Self Defence for Women is about the choices that you make on a daily basis; a theme that runs through the entire personal development course. Our philosophy is that issues such as personal safety need not be in conflict with your social life, they must in fact complement the way in which you live. Such self defence issues from the syllabus cover:

Teach me a women self defence tip.

Self defence is not a gimmick, and quick tips really don't demonstrate the value of the entire approach the personal safety course takes to educate you on self defence. However, at a crunch, let's talk about statistics. During the lecture component of our self defence course, we talk about how women should not get into a car if threatened at knife point or gun point. Most ongoing self defence debates are quite unanimous on the topic that if a woman is forced into a car, chances are slim that she'll make it out alive. Usual statistics are quoted at 95% chance or greater that the woman will not survive this type of attack. This is as opposed to FBI statistics reflecting the accuracy of policemen shooting at a target at about 12 feet. Apparently, owing to stress police officers only hit their target every one in four or five shots; and out of that, the probability is that they'll miss a major organ with that shot. That's a 20% or 25% chance that you'll get hit in a fairly non-lethal target versus a 95% chance that you'll never make it out alive. So women, your best bet when faced with this scenario is to run!

Is the Self-defence and Personal Safety course for me?

This self defence course for women will be of benefit to people aged between 15 and 55 years of age; students, executives, or homemakers. It will be of key benefit to those women in occupations where travel is required at night; affecting people such as shiftworkers, F&B operators, and health care workers - women who require a knowledge of self-defence and personal safety. Educators, female martial arts instructors, and community leaders; every woman expo sed to risk in their professional and person are encouraged to attend, so that personal safety awareness can be affected over a larger population.

Why should I attend the Women Self Defence course?

This personal development course will:

My last bit of advice here, and this is not trying to knock any of my competitors: most martial arts schools are unprepared to deal with the elements needed for a true self defence course. Go ahead and download some of our martial arts course notes and documents. Even if you don't eventually come to our course, use the 'Flight or Fight Affirmation Exercise' as a basis to compare what the other schools are offering. Most will not allow their courses to undergo this level of scrutiny, nor will they distribute detailed course notes to users!

Methodology of Self Defence for Women

The Women's Self-defence and Personal Safety course concentrates on achieving awareness of personal safety issues by improving the participants' ideas of awareness and avoidance. A discussion type format will be followed interlaced with short quizzes relating to personal safety ideas. The personal development course will also be a physical component where participants practise self defence techniques, both standing and lying down.

About the Course Instructor: Colin Wee

A black belt of the Singapore Ninjado system and American Karate and Tae Kwon Do Organization, Colin has had a wide expo sure to a broad spectrum of martial arts through his years in the United States. For 5 years from 1991, he practised martial arts with various schools, earning a teaching certificate from the American Karate and Tae Kwon Do Organization. As part of the martial arts black belt experience, his research into self defence for women culminated with his pioneering of this Women's Self Defence and Personal Safety course in Singapore in 1992 under the auspices of A.W.A.R.E. (Singapore). Such interests to formalize this course started again mid 2000 in Western Australia at the same time as forming the Hikaru Ryu group. Read more on Colin Wee

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