Self-Defense Training

The average person spends very little time in their life reviewing self-defense or martial arts programs. You may buy in to a program that has no basis in real world self-defense because “you don’t know what you don’t know”. Here are 3 red flags that a program may not be reality-based. They do pre-rehearsed self-defense demos. For instance, they’ll have a woman being attacked and as she kicks and punches the attackers, they drop like flies all around her. Gig Harbor Self-Defense never does pre-rehearsed demos. We will pull someone from the audience who we may have never met to help illustrate the reality of the point we’re trying to make. They demonstrate a child kicking and punching an adult male until he drops, defeated. This will never happen. Kids can’t fight their way out of the grasp of a determined adult criminal the way most people think. The demonstrating attacker holds his or her punch out and stands still while the defense is being executed.In martial arts, this is called “One Step Sparring” and it is often passed off as self-defense. It is not. The Gig Harbor Self Defense system is truly one of a kind. GHSD uses a variety of teaching formats to help students learn self-defense fast. Our law enforcement skill sets are the same as those taught in the Police Academy, so you know that they are tried and true.