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Primally Playful Movement Workshops

Re-learn why you're made to move and play with others

Self-Defense/Introduction
to Martial Arts     Level 1
One 3-hour session (with break) or two 2-hour sessions

  • If you were attacked by a couple people at night, how do you think you’d fair?

  • Interested in learning a martial art but don't know where to start?

  • Worried about sending your kid off to college without being able to protect themselves?

  • Traveling to an unsafe place?

  • Interested in learning basic mixed martial arts in a fun environment?

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This is a non-intensive course that teaches the basics of self-defense and mixed martial arts in a play-based, fun environment. Learn games that you can play on your own & with others that are fun, safe, practical & allow you to develop your reactions & skills.

Limited availability, only 6 people per course for Level 1.

Part I:  The Striking Arts

  • Fighting Stance & Movement​

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  • Boxing Basics: Evasive movement, jab, cross, hook

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  • Muay Thai Roundhouse kick, low, medium to high kicks

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  • Basics of stand-up wrestling (clinch fighting)

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  • Games & Drills to practice on your own & with others​

Part II:  The Grappling Arts

  • How to not get taken down & ground movement 

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  • Wrestling basics & games

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  • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu basics & games

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  • How to fall with grace & safety​

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  • Games & Drills to practice on your own & with others​

Workshop Pricing & Discounts

Single

Sign up with a friend

Sign up with 3 or more people

$127

$117

$97

Scheduling

You can either schedule the 3 hour playshop for one time or we can schedule 2 different meetings, for 2 hours each. If you wish to save $30 & sign up with other ppl, the group will have to decide when they want to do the sessions together. If you want only the striking or only the ground game, simply half the price of the full Play-Shop.

Personal or Partnered Sessions

If you enjoyed the workshop & would like to be coached by me while I am in your area, reach out to me

I recommend taking the workshop first, that way, you can see if you like my style of coaching. Another reason why taking the workshop first is a good idea is that you might meet someone there who you can train with, which always makes training more fun, & it will reduce your cost because signing up with others saves you money. I am also a Move Natural Certified Trainer, the rates for exercise/Move Natural training are the same rates listed here.

Individual Coaching      1 to 1 1/2 hr  sessions

w/ a partner

Packaged Deals

Buy 3 <  sessions         Personals

Buy 3 <  sessions

Partnered 

$75 

$65

$65 

$55 

About your Instructor

Hello!

My name is Jared Hippler & I have been a martial artist for over a decade now training at 10 different gyms around the world. I started out training in Judo at the University of Davis, CA from 2006-8. I trained in the Former Soviet Union in Kyrgyzstan from 2009-12, learning Muay Thai Kickboxing, Brasilian Jiu-Jitsu & wrestling.

 

From 2012 to 2016, I continued learning Muay Thai & Jiu Jitsu in 5 different gyms, 4 in California & one in St Louis Missouri. I then trained & taught in rural Guatemala in 2017.

 

I began teaching beginner level Mixed Martial Arts & Self-Defense in 2014. I became a personal trainer & Move Naturally Certified Instructor in 2014.

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My courses are designed to be fun! These are non-intensive courses. The point is not for participants to get a workout, though everyone will. The purpose of this course is to teach you the basics, and give you games you can play that help train your reactions & allow you to master those basics in a fun way.

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