Classes We Offer |
2023 Class Schedule
Basics (Level 1) - ages 14 & up
We believe that every person should have the skills taught in the Basics course. You will learn conflict resolution, verbal de-escalation and great self-defense.
In just 3 hours, our FAST Basics course will teach you:
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Stop Bullies FAST - ages 8-13This award winning, 2-hour assertiveness and self-protection seminar teaches skills to effectively protect our children from Bullies. Using simple and effective non-violent conflict resolution skills, Stop Bullies FAST playfully gives children ages 8-13 the tools to stop bullies in their tracks!
In a fun and safe environment, this dynamic 2-hour program effectively teaches our children how to skillfully deal with bullies. They will learn:
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Advanced (Level 2)In the FAST Advanced course, we'll continue to build from where the Basics course left off. In just 2 hours, you will experience:
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Ground DefenseThis 2-hour module covers how to deal with worst case scenarios on the ground such as:
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Weapons (Defense Against Armed Assailant)Is that a knife, a club or a gun? How do I handle this? Does it matter? What am I going to do? It's too late to think - just GO!!
Defending yourself against a predator with a weapon can be one of the most frightening and dangerous of situations. Utilizing many skills learned in the Basics course, this 2 hour class will give you the following skills and experience:
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Multiples (Defense Against Multiple Attackers)Thugs and bad guys tend to travel in packs. So what do you do when you are faced with more than one threatening person? You certainly don't want to go to the ground.
In this 2 hour module, we will teach you the most important things to do if faced with multiple attackers. You will experience:
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Responsible Gun Use Under Stress (Stress Shooting)
This is perhaps the most important seminar you can take if you own a firearm, or are considering one.
This training gives you the experience of appropriately and effectively drawing a firearm and shooting at a real person if and when you ever need to.
This 4-Hour Course on Scenario Based Firearms Training for Self Defense, is not a 'Sport' or 'Target Shooting' class. We don't teach tactical magazine changes, clearing stovepipes and other such technical skills. We do teach how to handle yourself under stress and to control the situation as well as your emotions!
You will learn:
This training gives you the experience of appropriately and effectively drawing a firearm and shooting at a real person if and when you ever need to.
This 4-Hour Course on Scenario Based Firearms Training for Self Defense, is not a 'Sport' or 'Target Shooting' class. We don't teach tactical magazine changes, clearing stovepipes and other such technical skills. We do teach how to handle yourself under stress and to control the situation as well as your emotions!
You will learn:
- The difference between static sighted fire and adrenal stress point shooting and when it is tactically beneficial to use each;
- Verbal de-escalation with the firearm to deter an attack;
- Stepping off the attack line of a charging aggressor to gain advantage;
- How to defeat the “21-foot rule”;
- In the final scenario we use air-soft guns against a live aggressor so there is no need for any "guess work". The aggressor knows when, if and where he was hit and responds accordingly. So both he and you know for sure if you survived the scenario or not.
Unlike Any Class You've Taken Before!The FAST Defense paradigm is quite different than that of Traditional Martial Arts. The people who enroll in a FAST class do not typically want to sign up for years or even months of instruction, though some may decide to join a traditional program after completing the Basics course. We do not have the luxury of teaching these students for years and years. We have only a few hours to get them the correct awareness, mindset, and technique powerful enough to save themselves if ever needed. The FAST Defense program draws from other effective teaching methodologies including Olympic coaching and sports psychology as well as Martial Arts in order to teach effective self-defense in a relatively short period of time.
The #1 factor in effective self -defense is dealing with the fear and adrenaline rush that naturally arises in a stressful situation. Studies of people in the high adrenal state show that the normal internal reactions to stress inhibit our ability to think rationally or to exercise complicated motor skills. The FAST Defense teaching methodology is therefore based on a step-by-step progression of easily learned and simply applied techniques in increasingly more intense scenarios. This progression allows for a wide variety of emotional and physical skills among a group of students. The outcome of a street fight is usually determined more by spirit than by the number of different techniques or by the “style” of those techniques and the same holds true of self-defense situations. That is why there are only 5 major techniques in the entire FAST Defense program. The techniques are taught first in slow motion rhythmic patterns while the student says the technique aloud. Each time the pattern is repeated the level of intensity is increased. The end result is that after just a few hours of training, students learn to access and focus the powerful adrenal rush as jet fuel for their fight, should they ever need it. Our techniques are very simple and our goal is to help students transform their fears and achieve remarkable gains in their self-confidence and ability to defend themselves. In summary, the FAST Defense teaching methodology is based on the following precepts:
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