ABOUT

Backa! Self-Defense For Women is politically and religiously independent. We invite all girls and women to participate in self-defence-training free of charge. 

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Our goal: 

 

Our goal is that all women can feel safe, everywhere! One way to reach this goal is to teach you how to protect yourself and recognise threatful situations which we do by training different techniques that are efficient and trustworthy. During these sessions we also want to lift questions about self-defence, what it can be and how we can support each other as well as our self.

 

About the training: 

 

During our sessions we foremost use techniques from the martial art Brazilian jiujitsu. One of the main traits of Brazilian jiujitsu is that the techniques it uses makes it possible for a person that is smaller and weaker to hold its’ own against someone that’s bigger and stronger.

During training we’ll among other things look at what you can do if someone tries to push or drag you to a place where you don’t want to be, how to break grips and how to get away in an efficient way. These techniques are well-tested and used in a lot of gyms around the world which means that they have been proven reliable during practices, competitions and self-defence situations.

The self-defence isn’t something you learn in a day. It’s better to come once instead of none but since it’s a series of techniques which we practise multiple times you will have a better result if you participate on a regular basis. Our ordinary practices are for free and you can join us every Sunday between 16.00 – 18.30. It will always be for free, which we think is very important.

 

About us:   

 

We are four persons which actively train Brazilian jiujitsu and actively engage our-self in the possibilities of self-defence. Our founder is Mattias Sandström which has been training Brazilian Jiujitsu for more than 12 years and he has also used our techniques efficiently against bigger, stronger and technically better opponents. Mattias goal has from the beginning been that all girls in Umeå should feel safe everywhere, no matter where they are. To help him with this task he has Moa Karlsson Gustafsson, Mimmi Larsson and Johan Lorentzon.

 

Now we work together to fulfill our vision: That all girls should feel safe, everywhere!