You see it every night on the news. Someone was attacked, mugged, beaten up. Not long ago it as a 102 year old woman who was the victim. Most people will watch and think that this could not happen to them, it always happens to someone else. What they don’t realize is that the person they have just heard about thought the same thing, the it would always happen to someone else. Don’t become the victim. Take self defense lessons and be prepared. There are some fine schools with self defense lessons in the San Francisco, California area. Each one has a different discipline, a different method and not every one is right for every student. Visit them, see what they have to offer, see if you can take a sample self defense lesson, or watch a class in progress. Pick the San Francisco self defense school that feels right to you and be the one that the predators are afraid of
The Motto of the Women’s Safety Project is ” Be Strong, Be Safe and Refuse to be a Victim.” They are a non profit organization in San Francisco, California and have two levels of self defense lessons. The level one self defense lessons focus on protecting yourself from one attacker and when you have completed level one you can move on to level two, protecting yourself against multiple attackers. They also will arrange self defense lessons for corporations in the San Francisco, California area. You can contact them at [email protected].
Krav Mega of San Francisco. Krav Mega is a different type of self defense. Krav Mega is the official self-defense and fighting system used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli Police and Security Services, and U.S. law enforcement agencies. It is one of the top of the line self defense programs. There are five levels of lessons in Karv Mega. In level one you learn Defenses against being choked, moving while on the ground, using knees, elbows, and palm strikes are some of the techniques covered and then in the succeeding levels of Krav Mega self defense lesson, you add on more skills while fine tuning the ones you learned in the previous levels. You can take private lessons and they do have special group rates. Once you have progressed through the levels of self defense lessons, you can take specialty lessons such as Sword/Staff Skills, Chinese Boxing or Grappling. If you want to try before you buy, you can take a free sample lesson. They are located at 1455 Bush Street, San Francisco, California 94109.
Impact Bay Area has self-defense lessons for women and girls. You can take group or private lessons. The basic self defense lessons are for women aged 20 and up or for anyone who has been a victim of assault. It focuses on self defense against a single attacker. Young Adult Basic Self Defense Lessons is for young women 17-20 and is very similar to the lessons for the older women, but focuses on situations that the younger woman would face. Upper level lessons focus on Defense Against Weapons and Defense Against Multiple Assailants. There is a special teen program for girls aged 12-16. This is one of the most vulnerable age groups. Predators think that girls in this age group are easy targets. Make sure your daughter is not one of them. They also have private lessons and will do group lessons in such places as schools. They are located at 146 East 12th Street Oakland, California 94606, about 12 miles north of San Francisco.
