Fight Back: Women’s Self-Defense Seminar
October 10, 2026 11:30 am
DF6 Defense Academy, 4413 Chastant, Metairie, LA 70006
🥊 FIGHT BACK Women’s Self-Defense Seminar | Metairie, LA
Feel Stronger. Move With Confidence. Know What You Can Do.
📍 DF6 Defense Academy | Metairie, LA | Serving New Orleans & Surrounding Areas
Join FIGHT BACK, a women-only self-defense seminar in Metairie, LA, for hands-on training focused on practical skills, confident boundaries, and creating opportunities to escape.
This seminar addresses situations where boundaries are ignored, someone becomes physical, or you need to find a way to get away. We’ll start with simple concepts and progressively add resistance, pressure, and more challenging situations.
✨ No experience necessary. Come ready to learn, train, and discover what you can do.
🎟️ Admission: $35
🌶️ FREE 1.5 oz Mean Green Pepper Spray Included
🎟️ Register for FIGHT BACK — $35
🛡️ What You’ll Learn at FIGHT BACK
🌟 Empower Yourself at the FIGHT BACK Women’s Self-Defense Seminar
✨ Why Attend the FIGHT BACK Women’s Self-Defense Seminar?
Build your skills step by step, from recognizing concerning behavior to responding to physical contact and practicing under pressure.
👀 1. Awareness, Boundaries & Prevention
Recognizing a problem early can give you more time to make decisions.
- Recognize concerning behavior and warning signs.
- Maintain distance and protect your personal space.
- Use confident verbal boundaries.
- Understand when it’s time to disengage and leave.
Your awareness, voice, and decisions are important parts of personal safety.
✋ 2. Dealing With Unwanted Contact
Learn how to respond when someone grabs your wrist, clothing, hair, or body, tries to restrain you, or prevents you from leaving.
- Practice responses to common grabs and restraints.
- Work on breaking another person’s control.
- Create space so you can move.
- Look for opportunities to get away.
The focus is on breaking control, creating space, and escaping.
🥊 3. Striking When You Need It
Learn practical strikes using your hands, elbows, knees, and legs. Explore how body mechanics help generate power without relying solely on size or strength.
- Practice simple strikes with purpose.
- Use movement and positioning to support your strikes.
- Connect striking with creating distance.
- Recognize opportunities to disengage and escape.
Learn when and how to use strikes to create an opportunity to get away.
🧩 4. When You’re at a Disadvantage
Work through more difficult positions, including being pinned, pushed against a wall, grabbed from behind, or ending up on the ground.
Explore how these principles can help when another person is larger or stronger:
- Positioning and leverage.
- Movement and creating space.
- Targeting and purposeful responses.
- Finding opportunities to escape difficult positions.
🔥 5. Putting It Together Under Pressure
As the seminar progresses, we’ll connect the skills and introduce realistic resistance so you can practice making decisions while a training partner actively works against you.
The goal is to understand a few important principles and practice applying them when the situation becomes more challenging.
Build confidence through practice, experience, and a clearer understanding of your options.
🛡️ Prevent → 🛑 Set boundaries → ✋ Break contact → 🥊 Fight if necessary → 🚪 Escape → 🔥 Practice under pressure
⭐ What Makes This Seminar Special?
- 👩 Women Only: Train in a comfortable, supportive environment created specifically for women.
- 🥊 Hands-On Training: Learn by practicing the skills, asking questions, and working through the movements.
- 💪 Progressive Training: Start with practical fundamentals and build toward more challenging techniques and situations.
- 🔥 Confidence Through Experience: Develop a better understanding of what you can do because you’ve practiced it.
- ✨ No Experience Necessary: Come ready to learn, train, and have some fun.
💕 Who Should Attend?
FIGHT BACK welcomes women who want to develop practical self-defense skills and feel more prepared to respond when boundaries are ignored.
🌱 Beginners
Brand new to self-defense? Learn practical fundamentals, ask questions, and build your skills step by step. No previous martial arts training is necessary.
🥊 Experienced Practitioners
Build on your existing training, explore more challenging applications, and practice adapting your responses under resistance.
👭 Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Friends
Come train together and share the experience—or come on your own. You’ll be in great company.
If you plan to register a minor, contact DF6 Defense Academy to confirm age eligibility before booking.
💪 What You’ll Work Toward
Through hands-on women’s self-defense training, you’ll work toward:
- ✅ Recognizing concerning behavior earlier.
- ✅ Communicating clearer, more confident boundaries.
- ✅ Responding to unwanted physical contact.
- ✅ Understanding how movement and leverage can help.
- ✅ Making decisions while practicing under pressure.
- ✅ Creating opportunities to disengage and escape.
🎟️ FIGHT BACK Registration
💵 Admission: $35
Your registration includes hands-on participation in the FIGHT BACK Women’s Only Self-Defense Seminar.
🌶️ FREE 1.5 oz Mean Green Pepper Spray Included
Every participant receives 1.5 oz Mean Green Pepper Spray to take home after the seminar.
Make time to practice your personal safety skills, strengthen your boundaries, and build confidence through training.
🎟️ Reserve Your Spot — $35
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need self-defense or martial arts experience?
No. This women-only seminar welcomes beginners and experienced participants. Training starts with simple concepts and progressively introduces more challenging situations.
Is FIGHT BACK hands-on?
Yes. You’ll practice the skills and connect them through exercises with increasing resistance and pressure.
What will we practice?
The seminar covers awareness, boundaries, unwanted grabs and restraints, striking to create escape opportunities, difficult positions, and making decisions under pressure.
Can I attend on my own?
Absolutely. Attend on your own or bring friends or family members to share the experience.
How much does it cost?
Admission is $35 and includes a FREE 1.5 oz Mean Green Pepper Spray.
How do I register?
Visit the FIGHT BACK registration page to view event details and reserve your spot.
📍 Women’s Self-Defense Training at DF6 Defense Academy
DF6 Defense Academy serves women in Metairie, New Orleans, and surrounding communities who want to build practical self-defense skills.
FIGHT BACK brings together awareness, boundary-setting, physical responses, and practice under pressure in one progressive seminar.
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🥊 FIGHT BACK
💪 Feel Stronger.
🔥 Move With Confidence.
🛡️ Know What You Can Do.
Join our women’s self-defense seminar in Metairie and take the next step toward feeling more prepared.
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