Pretty Deadly Creates Community

If you're a fitness professional with any experience in small group fitness, you've witnessed first-hand the powerful bonds small group training creates: your clients have sweat together, had fun together, failed together, and gotten stronger together. The key the success of programs like Crossift and Zumba is the small group size and learning progressive skills. Despite accusastions (and sometimes very real risks) of being "cult-like", there's a reason they're so popular: they create community.

Did you know this training model originally comes from martial arts? Martial arts schools initiate every new student with a uniform, automatically making newbies a part of the "club". Classes tend to be smaller in size, and are specialized, progressive skills learning envioronments. Progress and achievements are marked by belts, and students who start as white belts together and stick with the same school all the way to black belt are fiercely loyal to their school, their teacher, and each other - the bond is nearly unbreakable.

We rarely think of self defense classes acheiving the same bond among clients, but when mapped out for progressive skills acquisition, they absolutely do create not only strong bonds, but also connections that engage in community outreach.

Over the years we've been in business, and among the thousands of women we've taught self defense to, we've seen:

Nicole met Federica in Pretty Deadly Level 1. Together they created hildashaus, promoting menstrual health and hygiene for refugee women and girls in Berlin.

Inés connected with Cylixe through the Pretty Deadly app. Together they created masken.berlin and produced & delivered over 1200 masks to frontline workers in Berlin by May 2020.

Yasmine met Marelle in Pretty Deadly Online, Together they pooled their resources to bring Yasmine's initiative to teach negotiation to women to Uganda, and created Negotiatress Uganda.

Women and girls are more likely to re-invest in their communities, and Pretty Deadly is no exception. If your clients are feeling anxious or frustrated by our rapidly changing world, you have the power to help them feel connected and build community just by teaching them practical self defense skills.

Pretty Deadly creates community - and we can help you strengthen yours.