Personal Defense Classes
All classes have a minimum of 6 students and a maximum of 14. Please contact Dave about options for one-on-one training.
College Bound/Young Adult Personal Protection and Safety
Are your children going away to college this fall? Is your son or daughter working late at the mall, coming to the car in the dark? How many blue boxes were there available on campus? How comfortable were you with the College Security systems? Does your son or daughter go to the movies late at night? What happens if their car broke down on a dark road? Do they always carry their cell phone or pepperspray? Do they know how to use their car keys as a weapon? Are they aware of their surroundings at all times?
Wouldn't it allow you some peace of mind to know that your children could defend themselves if they had to?
Dave Jenkins of Rochester Personal Defense, will be teaching your children how to be safer and more secure in today’s world. He will talk about: situational awareness, combating fear and turning it to your advantage, and building the winning mindset. Dave will also be instructing defenses against frontal attacks, rear attacks, ground defenses, sexual assault, and more!
Time permitting, participants will be able to test their skills against an instructor in a fully padded suit.
Cost: $45 (Under 21) Parents may attend, but call for details.
Upcoming Class Dates:
- Please contact Dave for more information.
Self Defense with Pepperspray
Pepperspray can be an effective tool in your goal of personal safety. As with any tool, you must learn how to use it properly to avoid becoming a liability to yourself or others. Do you actually know when you can use pepperspray? Do you really know how? What if you get some in your face – what will you do or how will you react?
This class will not only tell you about the what, when, and how, but you will get to practice with inert sprays to test your skills. If you want to really learn what pepperspray does, the opportunity to be sprayed with a weaker version of the real thing will be available as well.
This class is great for everyone as you can carry your spray almost anywhere.
Cost: $45 for Adults, $30 for Juniors (under 18)
Upcoming Class Dates:
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November 2nd, 2008 11:00am - 3:00pm (Sun.)
Gander Mountain, Henrietta, NY (View Location)
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Basic Self Defense
In this class, you will learn more about body language, non verbal communication, and pre-attack indicators. We will also talk about how the predators among us use what is called "Target Selection" in picking a victim, and how to work on minimizing it. Physiological and psychological reactions to an attack will be discussed too. Participants will also learn some basic skills to counteract an aggressor's actions.
Techniques include:- Building a "Winning Mindset" (some call it a 'Survivor's Mindset')
- Movement and positioning in varying situations
- Learning to counter the most basic and common attacks (wrist grabs, hair pulls, punches, etc)
- Situational scenarios
Cost: $60 for Adults, $45 for Juniors (under 18)
Upcoming Class Dates:
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September 7th, 2008 11:00am - 4:00pm (Sunday)
Gander Mountain, Henrietta, NY (View Location)
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Intermediate Self Defense
Upon completion of the Basic Self Defense class, you will have a short review of and expand on body language, non-verbal communication, pre-attack indicators, and the skills learned in Level 1. You will also expand on your "Target Selection," avoidance techniques and building your "Winning Mindset". Verbalization will be reinforced as well.
You will learn to counter more types of attacks:
- Differing punches
- Review and expand on attacks from front and the rear: Chokes, punches, bear hugs, full nelsons, etc.
- Introduction to ground fighting skills
- Skills to deal with the Bad Guy's "inside weaknesses" during punches, stick or bat swinging, etc
During this class, you will learn how the various attacks can vary, and what to do to be able to react faster. You will be able to practice at a slow speed with a training partner and see how each skill works.
Cost: $75 for Adults, $60 for Juniors (under 18)
Upcoming Class Dates:
- Please contact Dave for more information.
Advanced Self Defense
After completing both Basic and Intermediate, you can attend the Advanced class. This is where it gets fun! You will work on more advanced learning in regards to the psychology of criminals and predators, work more on your "Winning Mindset", and more on minimizing your chance of becoming a "Target of Opportunity".
You will learn about the changes your body will go through during an attack. We will also introduce some more tactics as they relate to situations in life. You as students will also be asked to suggest situations that the class can think through and plan their own strategies.
Advanced techniques include:- Ground fighting
- Multiple aggressors
- Variations of attacks, including how to defend against and armed attacker
- Test yourself with some force in a mock attack against a padded attacker in a specially designed suit
Cost: $75 for Adults, $60 for Juniors (under 18)
Upcoming Class Dates:
- Please contact Dave for more information.
Graduate level (ie: Bring it on!! )
This is it! This is the class you have been working towards. In this class you will review all of the skills from the three previous levels, and then get to use them. You will experience one attack simulation roll into another. The idea is to get as close in intensity to a fight as we can get. Your 'attacker' will start out with an attack of his choice and then will change and adapt depending on the situation.
You will learn how you can control the stress reactions that your body will undergo during a fight. You will be tired at the end of this class! We also introduce the possibility of you, as the defender, having some sort of defensive weapon (firearm, knife, pepper spray, baton/cane, etc) and will work on how to incorporate them into your defensive plan.
Here's what you will do:- Learn how the pace and force of an attack can affect you and your attacker.
- Figure out how to deploy your defensive weapon in a force situation.
- Control and secure your weapon.
- Fight against a fully padded and protected aggressor.
- Transition from one skill to the other smoothly.
- Discover how fluid and dynamic an attack can get.
- Successfully work through an attack by utilizing your skills.