The UCD Police Department
presents
Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.)
Basic Self Defense for Women
"The will to survive isn't half as important as the incentive to prepare."
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Thank you for checking on the R.A.D for Women class.
A general announcement will be sent when the next class is scheduled.
You must be able to attend the full 16 hours.
Space in the class is limited, and registration is by payment only.
Women only.
Students (anywhere, student ID required) $20.00
UCD, UCH and TCH affiliates (ID required) $25.00
General Public $30.00
The class requires a commitment to attend all sessions, a total of 16 hours of instruction. Students and University affiliates must show current identification to qualify for the above rates. Space is limited. Receipt of payment constitutes registration. For more information or to remit payment for registration, contact Officer Lynn Whitten at 303-724-0739 or email Lynn.Whitten@UCHSC.edu.
Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques for women 11 years of age and up. The R.A.D. System is a comprehensive, women-only course that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and risk avoidance, and progresses on to the basics of hands-on defense training. R.A.D. is not a Martial Arts program. Nationally certified R.A.D. Instructors, Officers Lynn Whitten, Mike Carlson and Sergeant Jim Myrsiades teach the course.
Larry Nadeau, a former Marine and full-time police officer, first developed the R.A.D. Systems of self-defense in 1989. His original intention was to create an affordable, accessible, realistic program that would specifically address the self-defense needs of women. Nadeau believed that a well-structured system that could be easily learned and assimilated was needed. What Nadeau has done is take a lot of different martial arts and defensive tactics movements and forms, and reduce them to a few basic, easy-to-learn and effective techniques. This basic self-defense course actually becomes, in effect, an introduction to applied aggression for females.
R.A.D. is designed to help women overcome the effects of sexual harassment and sexual violence by teaching a strong foundation of awareness, risk reduction and avoidance strategies, which R.A.D. believes is 90% of self defense training. The program then discusses the Date Rape Mentality and an associated pattern of encounter, all just prior to discussing the decision to resist and the legalities associated with justifiable resistance. The course moves on to a thorough discussion of confrontational dynamics, basic physical defense principles, the postures of conflict, personal weapons of the body and selected target areas designed to stun an aggressor and allow the student to escape. After all of this is covered and presented for discussion, the physical training begins.
Starting slowly, the R.A.D. program systematically covers the basics of stances, yelling, movement, blocking, striking, and kicking. Tactics that are instructed methodically at first, becoming progressively more intense as the skill is acquired. The physical options continue with defenses against wrist grabs, bear hugs, and chokes, focusing on the student's personal weapons, the aggressors body targets and ultimately escaping. Then the system takes it to the ground by teaching participants the basic defense against prone assaults. Once all of the skills are taught and assimilated by the participants, R.A.D. begins the revolutionary simulation training process that separates reality from preconceived notions of what confrontation is like. Using aggressors clad in simulation training suits, R.A.D. students may choose to experience the chaotic elements of real confrontation. This process actually allows students to test their skills and refine the critical plans of action that were selected and nurtured throughout the program.
Many women do not have a self-realization of their own physical power. Along with offering women the chance to strike something with 100% impact force, it also gives women a chance to see themselves as being effective in a confrontational situation. R.A.D. offers the opportunity to exert physical strength.
R.A.D. courses also place emphasis in areas that instill dependency on self, and making your own decisions. A woman must be able to decide when and when not to use force in self-defense. She must make her own decision based on what she feels is right for her at that point in time.
What have women who have taken the class had to say about the class?
"The class really built up my confidence. I now know what I can do or shouldn't in a situation."
"The confidence built by everyone in the class was obvious."
"Overall, this was a wonderful and empowering class and a great time investment for me."
The class requires a commitment to attend both sessions, a total of 16 hours of instruction. The cost is students (anywhere, student ID required) $20.00, UCD, UCH and TCH affiliates (ID required) $25.00 and general public $30.00. Students and University affiliates must show current identification to qualify for the above rates. Space is limited. Receipt of payment constitutes registration. For more information or to remit payment for registration, contact Officer Lynn Whitten at 303-724-0739 or email Lynn.Whitten@UCHSC.edu. 