Krav Maga Yashir Boston - Women's Self-Defense
Free Women's Self-Defense Program at Krav Maga Yashir Boston
At Krav Maga Yashir Boston, we teach SEPS (Situation Effective Protection System)—a comprehensive approach that teaches threat avoidance, prevention, and identification along with the Krav Maga Yashir system, which is designed for dealing with a multitude of physically violent situations.
Krav Maga is a martial arts system developed in Israel to address all manner of violent assaults, both armed and unarmed, as well as those involving multiple assailants. While we use Krav Maga techniques as part of our women's self-defense program, our women's self-defense seminars do not offer a comprehensive fighting system. If you're interested in a full-time Krav Maga program, please sign up for one of our beginner Krav Maga classes by clicking here.
A Comprehensive Approach to Personal Safety
Our women's self-defense program is not just a collection of various techniques but a tried and tested method of training women in personal safety—whether through changing attitudes and behaviors or teaching physical solutions to violence.
Understanding Violence Prevention
Our experience and understanding demonstrate that violence against an individual is largely predictable. There are pre-indicators in a situation that can be used to identify the presence of harmful intent, and there are victim facilitators—things we do and ways we behave that identify ourselves as potential targets or victims.
By identifying the habits and behaviors that put us at risk and learning to pick up on various pre-indicators present in a situation, we can avoid ever having to be involved in a physical conflict.
Built Specifically for Women
Our program is not a general self-defense program modified for women, but one that has been built from the ground up to address the needs and issues facing women living in the modern world.
Contextual Training Approach
All of our training is conducted in a contextual manner. We don't teach or practice as if violence occurs in an emotional or situational vacuum. We examine the relationship you may have with your aggressor:
- Are they a partner or ex-partner?
- Are they a friend or acquaintance?
- Are they a stranger?
Important reality: We often make the mistake of thinking that assaults are conducted solely by strangers, whereas—especially for women—this is not the case. Most sexual assaults are conducted by friends and acquaintances.
We examine the various decisions and thought processes that women go through in these situations and how they can overcome their doubts, questions, and internal conflicts when dealing with potentially dangerous scenarios.
We look at how assaults and acts of aggression develop, and the pre-indicators present—for example, what behaviors identify a current partner as a potential stalker.
Prevention-First Philosophy
Physical action and self-defense should always be a last resort. Many self-defense systems start their training from this perspective, but we believe in teaching protection from the very beginning of the timeline.
Our Prevention Model
It is our belief that potentially violent situations can be addressed through:
- 70% can be avoided by preventative measures
- 20% can be prevented by having good situational awareness (we don't just talk about it, we teach it)
- 5% can be resolved by de-escalation and disengagement
- Only 5% require a physical solution
Rather than starting with physical techniques, our programs teach self-protection and self-defense from the very start of the timeline by teaching preventative measures.
Preventative Measures: Eliminating Victim Facilitators
We look at preventative measures by identifying and eliminating victim facilitators—the actions and behaviors that individuals unconsciously engage in, which puts them on a variety of predators' radar.
Situational Awareness (SA)
Situational Awareness is about having the ability to identify individuals within a situation who have harmful intent toward you. We teach similar methods to those that Close Protection personnel and surveillance operatives use to identify potentially dangerous individuals.
Changing the way you view the world around you doesn't require huge shifts in thinking—just the ability to identify certain key actions that individuals who wish you harm have to make.
Mental and Emotional Preparation
We teach you how you will "feel" and what you will be "thinking" when you realize that you are in the crosshairs of a predatory individual. We show you how to compose yourself and use a different method of decision-making than what you're accustomed to.
Assessing danger and reaching decisions when emotionally stressed is difficult, and you need to use different ways of thinking to ensure you act in the correct way.
Recognizing Predatory Behavior and Grooming
Most often, predatory individuals will talk to their victims before they assault them. In the case of date or acquaintance rape, this may occur over the course of an evening, or even over a period of days or weeks.
Part of this process involves the predator assessing:
- The target's willingness to give up control of a situation
- Their ability to fall into the role of victim and not fight back
We teach how to recognize the signals that predatory individuals give off through the processes they use to "groom" their victims and gain their trust and compliance.
We also teach appropriate disengagement techniques that allow an individual to back away from potentially dangerous situations without increasing the level of risk.
The Physical Component: Contextual Self-Defense
This comprehensive approach to self-defense and self-protection means that our physical component has a context to it and takes into account various situational factors such as:
- Location of the incident
- The target's relationship with the assailant
- The emotional dynamics of the situation
- The appropriate level of response needed
These factors can significantly affect the choice of physical solution.
A Realistic, Empowering Approach
Taking a realistic approach to personal safety based on the way predatory individuals act and violent situations occur means that our system actually addresses the needs of modern women and empowers them to respond to threats and dangers in an effective manner.
We look at self-defense training as being something more than just a way to respond. We view it as actions and behaviors that can be incorporated into day-to-day life, creating lasting change in awareness, confidence, and personal safety.
Empowerment Through Knowledge and Skill
Our women's self-defense program at Krav Maga Yashir Boston provides comprehensive training that addresses the full spectrum of personal safety—from prevention and awareness to de-escalation and physical defense.
Learn to protect yourself by understanding threats before they develop, recognizing dangerous situations and individuals, and having the tools to respond effectively when needed.
Ready to learn more? Contact Krav Maga Yashir Boston today to learn about our women's self-defense programs and seminars.