The Future of Women’s Self Defense is here

While teaching self defence for many years, I learned how prevalent  the issue of sexual assault is and how difficult it must be to move through the world in a female body. Sadly, almost certainly, you have someone in your close family or circle who has been a victim. I do. Too many.

But the fight moves my students wanted to learn and that I was teaching wasn’t really what they needed to feel and be safe.

I realised that there was much more to self defence than fight moves. People didn’t really understand this problem (myself included for a long time) and were missing a very important piece of the personal safety puzzle:

Self defense isn’t about winning the fight. It’s about preventing it. 

Keeping yourself safe doesn’t require you becoming a martial arts expert, spending hours in the gym, learning to throw knives, ninja stars, shoot guns or any such nonsense. Keeping yourself safe is about transforming the way you think, act, react and move through the world.

I do believe that I am my sister’s keeper. We all should be doing what we can to empower women, not coddle or victimise them.

I started Project FemPowerment to provide women with the practical and realistic strategies and techniques you can use to increase your personal safety in any space you enter– whether it’s the bedroom, the boardroom, or the bar.

I won’t coddle you or waste your time with complex martial arts techniques you’ll likely forget during the stress of an attack. What I will do is teach you how predators think and practical, common sense ways you can make yourself an ‘undesirable target’ to would-be attackers. 

I can’t promise that reading my book or coming to my FemPowerment workshops will keep you safe in any situation – only you can do that. What I can guarantee is that applying the simple, practical tips laid out in the FemPowerment programs you will move through the world with an improved sense of self worth, confidence, and competence that will make a predator think twice before setting his sights on you.

Otto 

Founder of Project FemPowerment

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