Awareness first
Recognize risk, protect your space, and choose the safest response available.
Practical one-on-one training
Self-defense skills you can practice under pressure.
Learn how to manage distance, protect yourself in common positions, escape control, and make calmer decisions through focused private coaching.
The approach
Simple principles before complicated techniques.
Private training lets you build skills carefully, understand why they work, and add realistic pressure without being thrown into the deep end.
Manage distance
Understand where you are safer and how to prevent someone from controlling the range.
Escape bad positions
Practice simple responses to common grabs, pins, and ground-control situations.
Build repeatable skills
Use controlled resistance so your technique becomes calmer and more reliable.
Inside a session
From understanding to application.
Clarify your concerns
Start with the situations, experience, and confidence level most relevant to you.
Create safer structure
Learn posture, base, frames, and movement before adding speed or resistance.
Practice a direct response
Build one high-percentage escape through clear steps and useful repetition.
Add controlled pressure
Apply the skill against gradually increasing resistance with coaching throughout.
Uniform private lesson pricing
Build skills through repetition.
Single lesson
$60
One 60-minute private lesson.
Book this package →3-lesson pack
$165
Save $15 and start building consistency with personalized coaching.
Book this package →5-lesson pack
$225
Save $75 and accelerate your progress through consistent one-on-one coaching.
Book this package →Semi-private training is limited to two students total. Add one student for $30 per lesson attended.
Self-defense FAQ
Train from where you are.
No previous martial arts experience is required.
Do I need to be athletic?
No. The lesson is adjusted to your current ability. The goal is efficient movement, good decisions, and repeatable fundamentals.
Is this the same as a regular BJJ lesson?
The same grappling principles are used, but the emphasis stays on awareness, creating space, escaping, and reaching safety.
Can I train with a friend or partner?
Yes. Semi-private training is limited to two students total. Bring one partner of your choosing for an additional $30 per lesson attended.
Will we train with resistance?
Skills are introduced cooperatively, then tested with appropriate controlled resistance as your understanding and comfort improve.
Book a private lesson
Start with the situation that matters to you.
Tell Miguel what you want to feel more prepared for, and he’ll shape the first lesson around it.