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Empower Yourself to Live A Safer Life

As a woman I realize the importance of being able to protect myself. Everyone has the notion that “it will never happen to me” and hopefully it won’t – but I wasn’t willing to take that chance. I took Tom Patire’s Training For Life® Course and I have never felt more empowered in my life. The course is truly customized to everyday people. In our course there were men and women, young and old, big and small, fit and unfit, professionals and house wives. The techniques were so easy to learn and easy to apply. I realized that it didn’t matter if I was able to “beat-up” the bad guy because that isn’t what it is about – it is about outsmarting him/her and getting away. The course taught us that all we need is a split second of time to get away and to safety and then we can call for help and let the authorities deal with the situation.
This is truly a course that tackles everyday situations for everyday people! We learned the techniques and then we learned the most common situations when we would have to use them. It wasn’t just about learning and then walking away not knowing how or when to use the things we learned. Instead, we went through scenarios and got to practice each and every technique and what to do if one specific technique didn’t work when you needed it.
More and more you hear on the news about incidents of innocent bystanders getting hurt because a situation goes wrong. Sadly more often than that, you hear of people being hurt by someone they already know because a situation spiralled out of control on them. The Training For Life® Program addresses these concerns. I don’t want to become an attack statistic and I know most other people feel the same. Finally there is a course where you don’t need to be athletic, you don’t need to take course after course to learn the proper way to kick and punch – finally there is a course that suits the everyday person and their busy schedules! Thank you Training For Life®!
- Miss Ego (Cambridge, Ontario)