Hypervigilance and situational awareness are just two of the points instructors offered to women and girls in a self-defense class at the Multi Agency Academic Cooperative on a recent Friday evening.

The dojo offers mother-daughter courses and caters to women aged 12 and up, empowering them to harness their strength with simple, effective self-defense techniques.

Nicole Snell, self-defense expert and CEO of Girls Fight Back, shares running safety tips with Andrea Canning on the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast.

On Saturday afternoon, 30 women gathered in the wrestling room in Fetzer Hall to attend a women's self-defense seminar hosted by the UNC Police and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Durham. The seminar focused on ...

A self-defense workshop led by Kas McGuire empowers women with practical techniques to defend themselves against larger, stronger attackers, addressing the growing concern of violence against ...

Women will learn essential tips on crime prevention and personal safety. There’ll also be some hands-on self-defense practice (optional).

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCIV) — Registration is open for the Goose Creek Police Department's Women's Self Defense class. The class will be held on Sep. 5 at 6:30 p.m. with Crime Prevention Specialist ...

Brittany Pelton of Butte kicks a punching bag Saturday morning during a women’s self defense class at Montana Tech. Jim Boyd, at left, and Butte police Lt. Mark St. Pierre are holding the ...

George Matheis Jr., a former Aberdeen, Md., police officer, taught the women skills and techniques on how to get away from an attacker. Matheis has led self-defense classes before, just never for ...

From 10 a.m. to noon, local women from ages 12 and up were invited to learn self-defense techniques. The defense class, in collaboration with the Ali Kemp foundation and the YWCA, was meant to ...