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Rape Aggression Defense
The UTMB
Police Department
conducts
Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Systems Basic Physical Defense
classes. The classes will
be free of charge to all employees, students and faculty. RAD is a 12 hour basic self-defense class designed for women.
The Rape Aggression Defense classes are taught nationally and in
Canada and is endorsed by the International Association of Campus Law
The
RAD approach to personal safety education embodies a practical blend of
threat avoidance strategies and real-world assault resistance tactics
for women. The focus of the
RAD course of instruction is on the development of easily-mastered
personal safety skills which can be safely practiced within a
comfortable learning environment, and the coupling of those physical
skills with a threat assessment process which will increase physical
safety awareness. The
overall goal is to reduce victimization
through informed decision making and sensible action.
The
RAD program is not martial arts or a traditional self-defense course.
It fills a longstanding void by enabling women to learn in a
period of several hours a set of cognitive and physical skills which
will be of benefit for years to come. The choice to be made regarding resistance in any particular
situation is a very personal one.
RAD students find the manner of instruction to be supportive and
the course, as a whole, to be a very empowering experience.
R.A.D. offers the opportunity
to exert physical strength with dynamic simulations.
Many women do not have a self realization of their own physical
power. Dynamic simulations are scenarios where the instructors pose as
attackers and the student use the skills they learned to defend
themselves. During the
dynamic simulations, students will wear protective gear and the
instructors will be protected wearing a specially designed “RAD
Aggressor” suit. The “RAD
Aggressor” suit will allow the student to use full power when
defending against the attack. It also gives women a chance to see
themselves as being effective in a confrontational situation. The dynamic simulation is not required to graduate from the
course, however it is strongly recommended for the “empowering”
effect.
All
students who complete the course receive a lifetime return and
practice policy at any RAD Basic Physical Defense Program offered
anywhere, regardless of instructor.
The student may return as often as she wishes,
free of charge.
The
UTMB police department has five instructors:
David DeOre,
Ryan Erwin,
Shirley McDaniel,
Ricardo Ruiz
and
Oliver
Scott. For additional information please e-mail any of our
instructors or call the UTMB Police at
20659.
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