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Course Descriptions

Click on either of the following course titles for more information:

Self Defense for Women and Girls
radKIDS® Personal Empowerment Safety Education Program

Organizations wishing to schedule a class for their own group, should contact IPDI.

The fee for either of the courses is $50. A $20 non-refundable deposit is required at registration.

Click here for more information about Key Defender, aerosol defense spray.


Self Defense for Women and Girls

IPDI offers instruction in self defense to women — 12 to 75+ years old. Designed especially for women, our 2-day course offers a set of awareness, assertiveness, and verbal confrontation skills with safety strategies and physical techniques that enable someone to successfully escape, resist and survive violent attacks.

There is a degree of physical work involved in practicing the techniques. However our goal is to present the information to you, and to have you learn and practice within your comfort-range. This class is designed for all women and is ideal for students, teens, mothers and seniors alike. Course participants are required to complete both a Physical Fitness Form and a Waiver Form.

Each of the two-day sessions is four hours in length. Classes are held at two locations: the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (823 East Speedway, Tucson, AZ) and SAIAT (3000 East Valencia Road, Tucson, AZ), or elsewhere, by prior arrangement for a specific group or organization.


Program Goals:

  • Sharpen awareness skills
  • Learn practical techniques
  • Instinctively use those techniques
  • Application of the techniques realistically
  • Learn how to empower themselves

Techniques Learned:

  • Understanding intuition (instincts)
  • Understanding methods of a predator
  • Learning Self-defense principals
  • Learning movement and redirection
  • Learning easy blocks
  • Learning easy strikes
  • Learning to defend from ground
  • Learning to defend against knife and gun
  • Learning to defend against rape
  • Realistic drills with application of all techniques at 100% force against a safely and completely padded instructor
  • Learning proper use of aerosol defensive sprays

radKids® Personal Empowerment Safety Education Program for Children — Boys & Girls

IPDI is a certified provider of the radKIDS® Personal Empowerment Safety Education Program — a 10-hour family centered safety education program that emphasizes essential decision-making skills as well as physical resistance options to escape violence. Children from 5-12 years of age participate in the program with their adult partners to create a true safety partnership.

Studies show that proactive responses (such as those techniques taught by radKIDS®) are most effective for avoiding would-be abductors.

Other safety programs give children general guidance rules, show videos or simply "talk" to the children. radKIDS® is dedicated to providing our children with a hands-on, activity-based physical skill development program empowering our children with options, not fear. radKIDS® provides our children with the instinctual options they need to recognize, avoid and if necessary respond to potential danger in their world today. radKIDS® has always believed, and it is further proved by the NCMEC study, that the first few seconds of a potentially violent encounter are critical. When a child is approached or grabbed, the response needs to be immediate, instinctual and absolute.

This instinctual response can be "taught" and enhanced through individual demonstration, training and practice. radKIDS® is dedicated to providing communities and families the tools they need to teach and empower your children with realistic options in their own personal safety.

Through radKIDS® training, children become empowered, learning to replace the fear, confusion, and panic of dangerous situations with confidence, personal safety skills and self-esteem.


Key Defender

Key Defender is an aerosol defense spray manufactured by ASP. In layman's term, it's a “pepper spray”. The product has the same strength as what police departments use. ASP is a very well known company to all law enforcement agencies.

The product is made for sale to the public. It comes in a variety of colors. The price of the Key Defender is $30.00, and none will be sold without the proper instruction in the use of the product.
 

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We may all become victims of an assault. Unfortunately, women, children and the elderly are at the highest risk. The person assaulting us may be a stranger or a loved one.