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The Rape Aggression Defense System is a program
of realistic defense tactics and techniques. It is a comprehensive course for women
that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and avoidance and progresses
to the basics of hands-on defense training. The R.A.D. course offered by the Department
of Campus Police is taught by certified R.A.D. instructors. R.A.D. training is growing
in popularity and is presently taught at many colleges and university. The wide spread
acceptance of R.A.D. training is due to the ease, simplicity and effectiveness of
the tactics, solid research, legal defensibility and unique teaching methodology.
By being well researched, structured, responsible, defensible
and dynamic, R.A.D. Systems has remained the only self defense program ever endorsed
by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA).
Founded in 1989, the R.A.D. Systems of self defense for women and children are currently
taught at nearly 400 colleges, universities, rape crisis centers, municipal, state
and county law enforcement agencies.
The R.A.D. Basic Physical Defense System begins with
a strong foundation of awareness, risk reduction and avoidance strategies, which
R.A.D. believes is 90 percent of self defense training. The program then discusses
the date rape mentality and an associated pattern of encounter, all just prior to
discussing the decision to resist and the legalities associated with justifiable
resistance. The course moves on to a thorough discussion of confrontational dynamics,
basic physical defense principles, the postures of conflict, personal weapons of
the body and selected target areas designed to stun an aggressor and allow the student
to escape. After all of this is covered and presented for discussion, the physical
training begins.
Starting slowly, the R.A.D. program systematically covers
the basics of stances, yelling, movement, blocking, striking, and kicking. Tactics
that are instructed methodically at first, becoming progressively more intense as
the skill is acquired. The physical options continue with defenses against wrist
grabs, bear hugs, and chokes, focusing on the student's personal weapons, the aggressors
body targets and ultimately escaping. Then the system takes it to the ground by teaching
participants the basic defense against prone assaults. Once all of the skills are
taught and assimilated by the participants. R.A.D. begins the revolutionary simulation
training process that separates reality from preconceived notions of what confrontation
is like. Using the simulation training suit for self-defense the R.A.D. instructor
creates the chaotic elements of real confrontation. This process actually allows
students to test their skills and refine the critical plans of action that were selected
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RAD:
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