Model Mugging is specifically designed to provide the greatest potential to overcome personal fears of being assaulted through role model mastery. Many self-defense courses are simply comprised of a group of techniques without offering the profound link between techniques, strategy, and reality. Additionally, our instructors are trained in working with women suffering from rape trauma syndrome. This is an important aspect of training women in self-defense commonly overlooked in traditional self-defense classes.
Proven Effective
Established in 1971 by Matt Thomas, Model Mugging has trained over 60,000 women. While individual and personal factors influence the reporting of assaults, it is known that 205 women have used their fighting skills. The attacks were, on average, within 2 ½ years after taking the course. Of those 205 assaults, 200 (97%) graduates successfully fought off their attacker. Of the 205 women who did fight back, about 40% forced the assailant to flee and about 60% knocked their assailant unconscious.
Intense/Quick Immersion
The Basic Self Defense Course is about 15 hours compressed into one weekend. In that time, Model Mugging provides crime prevention education and actual fighting experience necessary to successfully defend yourself against a single unarmed assailant. Advanced classes address an armed assailant, and multiple assailants.
Not Just Fighting –
De-escalation, Prepare, Anticipate, Recognize, Respond
The goal of the Model Mugging women’s self-defense course is for women to win without fighting. This is often described boundary setting. Model Mugging graduates report using their boundary setting skills and de-escalation skills to defend against rape aggression. Negotiation can work to increase options and opportunities to inflict injury and/or to simply escape a rapist, abusive partner, or other type of assailant. Awareness of your environment is also a critical factor in how you can win without fighting.
If you do have to fight--How not to freeze in fear
No self defense instruction has any value if you cannot remember what to do when attacked. This is where Model Mugging Self-Defense is so complete, comprehensive and effective in its approach. In actual attacks—without proper training, your mind can initially go blank and you’re quickly overwhelmed by the violence.
Model Mugging shows you how to use your smaller size and lesser strength to your advantage. Also included are no nonsense self-defense skills to counter attack and stop a rapist using distractions and surprise. It is very difficult for an assailant to defend himself from a counterattack if he is unprepared for it.
Self Confidence
Build your self-confidence through learning how to defend yourself in realistic scenarios. Fear can be your friend to escape rape and other street and domestic violence. Use fear to your advantage by transforming it into positive fighting energy. During the Basic Self-Defense Course you will see how to deal with other feelings such as inferiority, helplessness, and anger.
Rape Trauma Recovery
If you are someone who was successful (or not) in fighting off an assailant--you may still feel and suffer the effects of the post traumatic stress disorder, specifically rape trauma syndrome.
Model Mugging Self-Defense is a program that emphasizes and tailors self-defense courses to enhance a survivor’s psychological healing process. Model Mugging instructors are well versed in the dynamics of the rape trauma syndrome and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). There are unique dynamics involved in teaching women fighting skills revolving around prior sexual violation.
If you are an unfortunate victim of sexual assault, molestation, incest, domestic violence, and/or stalking, know that Model Mugging instructors are sensitive to your feelings and past histories. Students just like you have come away from the course feeling victorious and overcoming feelings of victimization.
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