March is Women’s History Month, so you’re going to see many interesting and inspiring stories about the women who came before us, upon whose shoulders we stand - stories you never heard in the HIS-tory classes you had in school. I hope you remember these stories and share them with the women who come after you – your sisters, daughters, granddaughters.
March 8 is International Women's Day. The first international women’s day was celebrated in 1911 to call attention to the suffragist movement. Since then, this day has helped to draw attention to various women’s movements throughout the decades. The message remains the same 111 years later, “to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women”. (NationalToday.com) This consistency, this persistence, is common in the women’s movement, as is the desire for everyone to be considered equal.
It's no surprise this year’s theme is #BreakTheBias. The message is to accelerate gender parity and give all people the same opportunities, regardless of their gender or sexual preference.
IMPACT has always been for gender parity and continues to break myths about who can defend themselves. IMPACT gives everyone the same skills and opportunity to defend themselves, no matter who you are or who your attacker is.
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March is Women’s History Month and IMPACT is a women-founded, women-lead organization. We want to highlight some of our key founders in the realm of IMPACT and Empowerment Self-Defense. But let’s define what empowerment self-defense means in general and to IMPACT.
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Consider This: Unleash your curiosity this Women's History Month
by Ellen Snortland
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The ever-quotable Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.” Hear, hear! And here we are at March, Women’s History Month. I am stunned at how few people actually know WHM even exists. I believe our general ignorance about women’s history reflects the subtle and pernicious misogyny woven through our society — a mirror of our unarticulated worship of males. The utter lack of curiosity about women and girls’ role in the world manifests how media and entertainment consign female stories to the wastebaskets of ho-hum.
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In-Person Basics Classes
In our flagship 16-hour course, you will learn verbal and physical defense tactics for a wide range of real-life scenarios including dealing with strangers and people you know. You’ll also work on awareness skills, avoidance and target denial skills and learn about the key role intuition plays in your safety. Our adrenaline-state training and layered teaching style ensures that your body will absorb the techniques and they’ll be with you for life. This class is for anyone regardless of age, fitness level or physical limitations. We work around existing injuries and disabilities to find what works best for your body.
Despite all the amazing physical skills you’ll gain, the best thing you’ll gain is the ability to not fight, but to see trouble coming and avoid it, to talk your way out of sticky situations – with strangers or people you know, and keep your grace under pressure.
Basics is four 4-hour sessions over four weeks. Basics Intensive is four 4-hour sessions over two weekends (Saturday and Sunday).
Due to the COVID-19 Omicron variant, we are asking that all students who attend our in-person classes be vaccinated. Students will be required to provide proof of vaccination prior to class. All of our instructors and assistants have been vaccinated.
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In-Person All-Genders Intro Workshop
This three-hour, hands-on class gives students a comprehensive taste of all our training. You will work on awareness, verbal strategies, and physical self-defense skills in a safe and supportive environment. You will tap into your own intrinsic power and will leave class with a solid understanding of how to deal with someone who is confronting you in a variety of situations.
Like all of our classes, the Intro is team-taught by a female lead instructor and one of our padded assailants.
One three-hour session.
Due to the COVID-19 Omicron variant, we are asking that all students who attend our in-person classes be vaccinated. Students will be required to provide proof of vaccination prior to class. All of our instructors and assistants have been vaccinated.
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In-Person All-Genders Advanced Weekend Workshop
Prerequisite: Women’s, Men’s, or All-Gender Basics and instructor sign-off.
After Basics, our students had more “what if” questions. What if I can’t see when I’m attacked? What if I’m with my partner? What if there are several assailants? We expanded our curriculum to address these questions. Our research to develop these solutions is unique in the industry and the source of our cutting-edge programs.
You’ll work on taking your adrenaline management skills to a higher level by reviewing Basics techniques and building on them with some of our favorite, “fun in that IMPACT kind of way” fight scenarios. Because 80% of rapes are committed by someone the victim knows, you’ll delve deeper into how to deal with “familiars” with “mid-level dissuasions.” You’ll up the ante with reversals by adding sheets, blankets and pillows you have to deal with in order to land a good strike. You’ll learn what to do to protect someone else and how to be an active bystander. You’ll answer the question: What if I’m attacked in a small space? with our “elevator fights,” and most thrilling of all: what if I can’t see? That’s right, Jedi, you’ll discover you don’t need your vision in order to have a successful fight.
All in-person classes require proof of vaccination to be able to participate.
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P.O. Box 931541
Los Angeles, CA 90093
310-360-1096
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