Strider Self Defense will empower students to neutralize the most common attacks and threats of viol Individualized Curriculum! Knowledge over fabric.
Martial Arts for the Real World
Your training will consist of a mix of different martial arts styles. The mixture helps ensure that you learn a more complete self-defense game. A majority of your training will come from Kali, but you will see the biggest variety of arts in the unarmed disciplines. Training that is specialized for you! Everyone has different life experience and backgrounds. No one
03/30/2026
Thank you so much for my gifts, natalia! They help me start the day off right. Teaching you and your daughter was such a joy! Never forget the strength and potential you both embody. Safe travels and may our paths cross again soon!
10/06/2025
Why seek empowerment from someone who rejects your agency? There is a big problem of bigotry in the self defense community. Instructors and their students spew vile hate against marginalized communities casually. Don’t let their ignorance deter you from learning how to protect yourself. This space is for you. There are amazing instructors out there who share your values.
09/29/2025
Self defense strengthens the way that you walk, the way that you see, the way that you feel. You will use these skills everyday. Live your life to the fullest with the comfort of knowing that you have options when s**t hits the fan.
09/26/2025
This message is for the disenfranchised who need self defense. I will not be arguing with those that this offends. There ARE instructors out there who aren’t part of the problem. I’m one of them. Don’t give your time, money, and peace of mind to those who harm you.
06/06/2025
Do you know when someone might grab you? What about what to do when they grab you? After? Come learn how to protect yourself in a safe space without being worried your teacher engages in right-wing politics!
Join us Fridays for a donation based Women’s Self Defence class at ! This is the best deal on the market & you owe it to yourself to be prepared!!!
I work to empower students to neutralize the most common attacks and threats of violence present in the real world with composure by fostering self-confidence and tactical prowess over time through:
• Boundary Setting
• Social Engineering
• Escapes
• Physical Strikes
Register here: https://linktr.ee/ShopSchedule
10/17/2023
🥋Play is the shortest route between children and their creative calling.🥋
At My Gym Martial Arts, kids grow in self-discipline, confidence, self-control, and concentration - all valuable principles they will carry throughout school, at home, and throughout everyday life.
Join the awesome G**o Sean and My Gym team and learn Martial Arts in the same way that all classes are taught at My Gym and Strider Self Defense… with love, support, and FUN!
08/01/2023
👊Enroll your child in Lil’ Defenders now!👊
Strider Self Defense has partnered with My Gym to offer Group Classes to kids ages 4 1/2 - 10 years old! Sign up with today!
What makes our My Gym Martial Arts program so special is that it is taught in the same loving and supportive way we teach all our My Gym classes. The physical gains in this program are numerous and important. You will see improvement in your child’s stamina, flexibility, strength, body awareness, and coordination. Children learn to punch, kick, and block in various stances and forms. As they progress, our students will test for higher belt levels and can even earn their black belts within our curriculum. The benefits of training go far beyond the physical, however. The children grow in self-discipline, confidence, self-control, and concentration – all valuable principles they will carry through school, at home, and throughout everyday life.
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This is a 2x per week class!!! Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30pm!
07/03/2023
🥋New Kid’s Group Classes at My Gym in La Jolla!!!🥋
Strider Self Defense has partnered with My Gym to offer Group Classes to kids ages 4 1/2 - 10 years old! Sign up with today!
What makes our My Gym Martial Arts program so special is that it is taught in the same loving and supportive way we teach all our My Gym classes. The physical gains in this program are numerous and important. You will see improvement in your child’s stamina, flexibility, strength, body awareness, and coordination. Children learn to punch, kick, and block in various stances and forms. As they progress, our students will test for higher belt levels and can even earn their black belts within our curriculum. The benefits of training go far beyond the physical, however. The children grow in self-discipline, confidence, self-control, and concentration – all valuable principles they will carry through school, at home, and throughout everyday life.
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This is a 2x per week class:
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Tuesdays @ 5:30pm is for Everybody and the class you'll start with. You'll then be placed additionally in the Wednesday or Thursday class based on age, class availability, and, of course, your availability, too!
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Thursdays @ 5:30pm is primarily for kids 4-7 newer to martial arts.
06/26/2023
🎉LOOK WHAT I GOT🎉
I’m super stoked. I’ve been working through ’s REALITIES OF VIOLENCE material deliberately and with intention. There is so much information based on research and study and I highly recommend anyone to get it. It is particularly awesome for me as an instructor because it supplements any style you work with. The REALITIES OF BOUNDARY SETTING is going to be a real treat to work through. Oh yeah, BOTH ARE ON SALE RIGHT NOW!
06/13/2023
☀️Enjoy Summer Training☀️
Train in the park, the beach, or the comfort of your own home!
Use the CONTACT button on my profile to set up some private lessons.
06/01/2023
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Often businesses wouldn’t deign to declare something potentially divisive in fear of backlash affecting their bottom line. Sometimes still, businesses hop on trends to declare allegiances, careful to tread the line between virtue signaling enough for clout and choosing inaction to prevent fallout in the future.
We have a real problem with bigotry in this country. Bigotry that some naively thought was gone, but was actually just momentarily quiet. Well now that bigotry is not just on the rise, but it’s loud enough to actually pass legislation in many states. Religious and political belief has been co-opted to hurt marginalized groups and it’s not enough to live and let live anymore. The tolerance of the intolerant has let evil grow to the point where the advice of “just ignore that bigot shouting at you on the street corner” has lead to a nationwide bystander effect. We all are hoping someone else will come by and fix the problem which, of course, leads to no one fixing the problem. And ultimately, it leads to us failing the outnumbered minority groups and our children will judge us for it.
Martial Arts and Self Defense is for everyone. Martial Arts and Self Defense is for the LGBTQ. Perhaps especially so. Sure, some schools are lead by exclusionary coaches and senseis. But I would argue that those types have lost the true meaning behind this entire practice. The physically strong don’t need technique to overpower the physically weak. Technique was created to bridge that gap. The Martial Arts were created for you. I know that sometimes it may be intimidating to step through that gym door for the first time, but I assure you, there are many instructors out there waiting and excited to start you on your journey.
Thank you to all those that speak up and support the members and allies of the LGBTQ. We need to protect each other now more than ever. And to those who are suffering right now, know that you are not alone. We got your back.
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