CROWD SURVIVAL SEMINAR

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY

MARCH 1, 2026

IFA instructor David Hutchinson will be leading a 4 hour seminar covering techniques and tactics that can help increase your survivability in a chaotic mob or group attack scenario. Although fighting skills can and should be employed when trying to escape a riot, gang attack or protest environment turned ugly, they are NOT sustainable as a means of prevailing and going home in one piece. The main focus of this class is ESCAPE, and we will be looking at pre-contact social cues and verbal techniques we can use as a frontline defense. We will practice simple combatives in both striking and grappling modalities that can be utilized with an extremely raised heart rate and de-mobilizing adrenaline dump working against us. Most importantly we will learn how to get up off the ground, push through crowds, negotiate space from multiple assailants and seek outside help in an efficient and effective manner.

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Integrated Fighting Arts operates a Self Defense program in Asheville called Stand Alone Self Protection. It is our signature program for developing real world skills and the fitness to carry them. The program will train you in striking, grappling, weapons defenses and threat assessment/de-escalation.

This class is NOT competitive, nor is it a codified martial art. Just the principles and basics you need to feel confident in day to day life, no matter where you are.

IFA IS OFFERING SPECIALIZED PROGRAMS for Private Individuals, Small Businesses, Corporations, Organizations, Schools, Social Groups and more! These programs can range from anywhere between basic introduction to Self Protection to full-on resistance training with inert weapons. Anything in our curriculum can be curated to best serve you and/or your group - please contact us for details.

This program is for EVERYBODY willing to put in the work and we do not take a one-size-fits-all approach to training individuals.

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