•  

    Prepare Inc

    New York, New York

    Prepare Inc147 W 25th St # 801New YorkNY10001212-255-0505http://www.prepareinc.com

    Club Information

    The IMPACT full-contact form of personal safety training has its origins with a group of martial artists who decided in the early 1970s to develop a new form of self defense for women – one that was relevant to the needs and capabilities of women, acknowledged women’s issues, and made use of training methods that introduced more realism and better results. These individuals designed the foundation of IMPACT by researching police records and by speaking to survivors and perpetrators, as well as experts in education, psychology, sociology, martial arts, and physiology. IMPACT coursework has grown out of two decades of first-hand experience teaching personal safety. Our highly developed program is designed to provide our students with realistic and useful skills for themselves. The program is taught by specially trained teams of female and male instructors. The course addresses situations ranging from the day-to-day levels of boundary violation to the worst-case scenario of actual assault. All of our courses involve full-contact, full-force interactive fights with a thoroughly padded mock assailant who is trained to re-create common assault scenarios ranging from subtle harassment to actual physical violence. Students learn not only to defend themselves, but to overcome the common "freeze response," and to manage fear and anxiety during intimidating situations. Prepare's classes give you the opportunity to clearly identify how you naturally respond in any given situation. We provide you with the emotional, verbal and physical tools that allow you to examine your interactions with other people and identify what works for you. You redefine what it means to be aware of your surroundings, the choices you make about personal safety, how you speak to people, and how you allow people to speak to you. We encourage you to be comfortable setting boundaries with people you interact with on a daily basis, people you come into contact with randomly, and people you interact with against your will. Our goal is for you to be able to set healthy boundaries and ask for what you want. In class, we place students in the context of situations where their physical, emotional or psychological safety is seriously at risk. The skills taught apply to any circumstance that entails the challenge of identifying a problem and acknowledging its existence. We figure out which tools we need to solve the problem, make choices, then create a plan of action that enables a quick, decisive and appropriate response. If a chosen strategy is not working or additional factors affect the scenario, it is important to stay flexible in order to modify plans in the moment and implement an alternative strategy. We believe the best way to learn personal safety is through concept-based learning rather than rules. Through this educational model, we are confident that you can apply the principles of the program to your life regardless of race, religion, cultural heritage, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation. We are aware that every situation is different and that hard and fast rules do not make sense all of the time. We believe that trusting your innate ability to perceive danger and responding in a way that enables you to implement a safety plan unique to the situation makes more sense. People who have been through an assault (we refer to them as "survivors") or, for that matter, any extremely frightening situation often recount feelings of "freezing," "paralysis," or an "inability to think or breathe". These are very common ways to respond to the fear associated with confrontation. The fear is often compounded later on, upon reflection, when victims realize that had the assault escalated, they wouldn’t have known what to do. Our job at Prepare is to provide you with practical tools and skills to help avoid or minimize those kinds of reactions.

    Martial Art Styles

      Schedule

      • TUE
        • 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.Women’s and Teens Basics
      • SAT
        • 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.Kids class
      • SUN
        • 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.Six Gender Basics class

      Clubs Nearby

    Queries

    0 Query (Show)