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London Centre for Personal Safety : Personal Safety & Self Defence Courses For Women

The London Centre for Personal Safety are running their cutting-edge and hugely popular IMPACT courses for women.

Whatever your confidence in your ability to protect yourself

Whether or not you have been subjected to violence

If you want to have fun learning proven safety strategies and skills and discover your real power

Then this course is for you!

Personal Safety & Self Defence Courses For Women

We cover a range of realistic and effective personal safety skills including verbal strategies, awareness, avoidance and physical skills, which can be applied to a broad range of situations, both with people you know and with total strangers

Our approach to self-defence is suitable for all ages, all levels of fitness, and all body types. The limited size of class ensures individual attention and personalised instruction. We will adapt the physical techniques to work with your physical needs or pre-existing injuries. The course is taught by specially trained and experienced teams of female and male instructors.

Our approach – IMPACT self-defence

Have you previously attended a self-defence course only to have forgotten everything you learnt a week later?

Practiced full-force against fully padded instructors trained in recreating assault scenarios ranging from subtle harassment to actual physical violence, IMPACT is a self-defence training method developed to address the needs, experiences and capabilities of women. In an emotionally and physically supportive environment, you will learn and practice verbal and physical skills to protect yourself in case of actual assault.

You develop muscle memory so your body remembers the skills you have practiced. You need never doubt that you can use them again if you ever need to.

Forthcoming Dates:

12th and 19th July 08

13th and 20th September 08

Where:

The Rivercourt Methodist Church, London W6

The cost of each course is £180.

Each course takes place over two days.

For more information

call 020 8743 7827

visit http://www.londoncentreforpersonalsafety.org.uk

download and complete the attached booking form (pdf format 38 kb)

Before I joined the course, I harboured the fear and insecurity of being attacked and raped. I just cannot express strongly enough, how so very empowered I now feel. [The training] provided me with my own personal testing ground, to actually confront my fear of attack, in a secure and encouraging environment.

I don’t generally go around day to day worrying about being attacked – I’m a confident person and just get on with life. But after attending a self-defence course with LCPS I’m more confident that, should anything happen, I can keep myself safe. Better still, in training, I’ve practiced and proved that I can handle myself!

There’s no pretending involved – I wasn’t holding back and pretending to hit one of [the padded instructors]. The adrenaline really kicks in. I was surprised – and reassured – to find that, although I’m only 5ft 2, I can knock a 6ft man down to the ground and get away safely!