IMPACT Bay Area is Self-defense workshops that help you become prepared, aware and ready to defend yourself. Learn and practice verbal and physical skills against padded assailants, working through the adrenaline freeze response and training your muscle memory to hit full-force. Become more confident and prepared on the streets and in life!
Impact Bay Area is a nonprofit organization that teaches effective boundary setting, personal safety, and physical self-defense skills. Their classes are taught in a safe, supportive environment and tailored to meet the needs of different ages, genders, and communities.
Their method is to teach full-force self-defense using instructors in fully padded suits. This allows students to learn to fight through their natural adrenaline freeze response and to train their muscle memory to hit full-force. We do this work in service our vision, which is for a community where everyone has the personal safety tools to live a fuller, more confident life.
They offer public classes, as well as teaching private self-defense and personal safety classes to groups and nonprofit organizations. Their private class offerings range from 1-3 hour Introduction courses to our 20+ hour Basics curriculum.