Women's Self-Defense Basic Course
There are relatively few Model Mugging Self-Defense graduates who have had to use their fighting skills during an attack.
There are, however, thousands of Model Mugging graduates who have used their boundary setting and verbal de-escalation skills to successfully stop situations from becoming violent. Women who know how to recognize and effectively respond to potentially dangerous situations can get out safely. These women are a testament to winning without fighting and the paradox of self-defense: The more prepared you are to defend yourself the less likely you will ever have to.
EMILY (Aspen, CO Self-Defense Graduate)
“Your program was one of the most life changing and positive things I have ever experienced…”
NATHALIE (San Francisco, CA Self-Defense Graduate)
“The Model Mugging Course is one of the most empowering experiences you will ever go through, and its effects will trickle down to every area of your life. A couple of weeks after Model Mugging, I enrolled in school, overcame my fear of public speaking, and felt much calmer and at peace, knowing that I could deal with whatever came my way. Every woman should take this course, no matter what their age or life circumstances. It really is the best money you will ever spend!”
MARCELLINA VINCI (Los Angeles, CA Self-Defense Graduate)
“I took this class at age 13 in Southern California. Thanks to this class I’ve always been empowered, confident, aware of my surroundings and my fears of being attacked have never disabled me from living my life. I’ve never been assaulted or in situations I was not in control of and I continue to use the knowledge from this course every single day.”
RENEE SUNDARAM (Seattle, WA Self-Defense Graduate)
“Before I took Model Mugging self-defense, I feared being alone at night. I felt vulnerable and always on guard. Afterwards I still feel vulnerable, but I have knowledge of how I can defend myself. This knowledge is not in my brain, it’s in my body. My body memorized the motions of how to react to an attack. I discovered I am not helpless or defenseless. I do not need my father or my brother to defend me; I do not need a weapon. I am capable of defending myself. My body is my weapon, and a powerful weapon at that.”
TINA FORBUS (Graduate who successfully defended herself against an emotionally disturbed, 6ft, 250 pound assailant armed with a knife - She is 5 ft 4 inches and weighs less than 115 pounds.)
"I am thoroughly convinced that it was Matt Thomas’ Model Mugging training that saved my life.”
CLARE MONTEER (Executive Director, Monterey Rape Crisis Center)
“Model Mugging is not just a highly effective self-defense course, but it has also helped former victims to become strong and regain confidence in their ability to look after themselves.”
DENNIS EVANS, MD (Psychiatrist)
“The course provides a very powerful psychodrama which, in a supportive environment, facilitates emergence of issues and then mastery of them. This takes therapy out of the oft times abstract armchair into a very real and practical experience.”
CAPTAIN DONALD FUSELIER (Carmel Police Department, Police Academy Instructor)
Model Mugging is the only self-defense course I would ever have my wife or daughter take.”
ROBERT BISHOP, Ph.D. (Program Director of Executive Security International, the world’s top private body-guarding academy)
“Model Mugging should be mandatory training for any martial artist or law enforcement officer who would benefit from facing their own fears. More than any other training, it gives one a realistic sense, emotionally, mentally and physically, as to what it is like to engage in mortal combat. It is taught with compassion, humor and skill. I am extremely grateful to Matt for teaching my daughter to protect herself.”
JERRY ROBINSON (President of Health for Life)
“One hears that developing the Warrior Spirit requires years of martial arts training or at the very least, a pilgrimage to the Far East. Not so. Matt Thomas has found a way to develop it in a weekend. Poignant, uplifting, primal and above all empowering. Model Mugging confronts you with the reality of mortal combat and teaches you to survive.”
PENELOPE SALINGER (Graduate)
“Model Mugging has been one of the most challenging and powerfully transformative experiences I have every voluntary undertaken. It taught me more than techniques. It reminded me that I am always capable of more than I had thought. It held up a mirror before me, gently forcing me to acknowledge my own courage.”
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