Generation Strong member Arthur Karas will be teaching this course. Arthur developed the Personal Protection Strategies course for Cleveland State University, Ohio Board of Realtors continuing education credit, and Cleveland Clinic Streetwise Self-Defense programs. He has 34 years experience in the martial arts and holds belts in multiple systems.

Participants will learn to detect, defuse, and defend against common attacks. The scenarios will simulate sudden, violent attacks at times. Many of these scenarios are as close to real-life attacks as possible, but they are simulated. These scenarios will induce an adrenaline dump which is necessary for the information to be forever programmed into the reactive mind.

In the Personal Protection Strategies course, students learn characteristics of violent offenders, including the methods they use to select their victims. Awareness training, choice speech skills, and physical tactics will be introduced in this module. Along with psycho-emotional aspects of self-defense, we will also cover superior targeting strategies and disengaging from the attacker. This class will also introduce effective use of defensive devices such as pepper spray.