EMBOLDEN: Level 1
- Attain situational awareness & avoidance methods & when necessary, how to escape & fight
- Learn & practice essential self-defense techniques for the most common attacks against women:
- Multiple Wrist Grab Defenses
- Bear Hug (arms trapped) Defense
- Hair & Ponytail Grab Defenses
- Mount Defense
- Shoulder Grab Defense
- Front Strangle Defense
- Rape Defense
- How to properly base and strike
- Gain the knowledge and skills to walk confidently and create eye contact to deter a predator
- 2 hour hands-on workshop
- Upon completion, you’ll have access to instructional videos to keep practicing what you learned on your own plus Unlimited FREE Level 1: Embolden – Just bring a new friend each time!!
EQUIP: Level 2
You’ve taken Level 1: EMBOLDEN and want to learn more! We got you. In Level 2: EQUIP, we amp it up a bit. Building off Level 1, this workshop focuses on:
- Review of Level 1: EMBOLDEN
- Experience more advanced scenarios & techniques, i.e.:
- More Complex Wrist Grab Defenses
- Rear Bear Hug (arms free) Defense
- Mata Leon (rear choke) Defense
- Shirt Grab w/ Punch Defense
- Wall Strangle Defense
- Back Mount Defense
- How to complete a Hoodie Choke
- How to properly base and strike
- 2 hour, hands-on workshop
- Upon completion, you’ll have access to instructional videos to keep practicing what you learned on your own PLUS unlimited FREE Levels 1 & 2: EMBOLDEN & EQUIP– Just bring a new friend each time!!
EMPOWER: Level 3
You’ve taken Level 1: EMBOLDEN & Level 2: EQUIP. We’ve covered the importance of avoidance and escaping, including many practical options of how to protect yourself physically. In Level 3: EMPOWER, you will now learn how to subdue someone, should you need to. In Level 3, you’re the dominant factor in the fight. Here’s some of what you’ll see:
- Maintaining Side Control
- Submitting using the Kimura (arm break)
- Submitting using the Guillotine Choke
- Knife Defense/Offense
- Maintaining Mount Control
- Submitting using the T-shirt Choke
- Upon completion, you’ll have access to instructional videos to keep practicing what you learned on your own PLUS unlimited FREE Levels 1, 2 & 3: EMBOLDEN, EQUIP & EMPOWER– Because we see the importance of continued practice and want to make it as easy for you to access as we can!
This level is pretty special, as there is so much more we want you to be able to learn and grow in your journey to protecting yourself that not only will you be welcomed to join ANY and ALL Fortitude Defense: Self-Defense for Women Levels 1-3 for FREE (you don’t even need to bring a new friend in order to earn this free spot; its yours to keep), you’ll also continue to build off of the techniques listed above. Thanks for being a Fortitude “Lifer!” We hope you’ll use what you learn here to not only protect yourself and your loved ones but also to inspire and bring others up so they may have the confidence to protect themselves as well. Keep spreading the Fortitude love. You got this.
