The Mushinkan Dojo conducts periodic training courses in Self Protection and Personal Safety. These are specialized classes that focus on the reality of defending oneself in a real life attack situation and teaches the fundamentals of surviving physical aggression.

The course is called a Self Protection course instead of a Self Defence course for the simple reason that sometimes one may be required to be proactive and initiate an attack in order to prevent a situation from escalating into something that cannot be evaded, controlled or stopped. We see the knowledge of Self Protection as a form of Personal Safety education, no different from the skill to cross the street safely or learning to swim if one lives near water.

Elements covered include:

- Situational Awareness

- Legal aspects of Self Defence

- Skills in detecting predatory behaviour

- Rape Prevention and recovery techniques

- Self Protection Mindset

- Prevention and de-escalation techniques

- Understanding and ability to apply the Force Continuum

- Physical Self Protection techniques from multiple positions and levels of readiness

- Use of weapons and much more...

Our Self Protection and Personal Safety programs are ideal for men and women of all ages, especially those who work in high risk occupations or are put into situations where they regularly deal with customers or the general public or are placed regularly in unfamiliar locations and situations without prior preparation.