Personal Protection Defense Skills
The School of Budo also offers basic coursework in personal protection and defensive skills to people from all walks of life, and has taught diverse groups such as law enforcement and military personnel, women’s self-defense classes, police volunteers, community CERT members, wildland volunteers, and others. Threat assessment and communication, verbal and spatial management of threats, default countermeasures, and standing and grounded defenses are the foundation of our personal protection work, and often integrated into our regular jiu-jitsu classes. Additionally, seminars and private training in advanced work including defensive edged weapons, firearms applications, and adaptive interdisciplinary close quarters combatives are taught.
