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Advanced R.A.D. class

Keychain

The advanced RAD is for those who took the RAD women's basic class in 2023 or 2024. Taught by Darlene Gentry. Co-sponsored by Lexington Park Baptist Church.

This class builds on techniques and strategies from the Basic class. It will cover some advance techniques and RAD keychain training. It revolves around use of the Kubaton.

Minimum of four (4) hours for participant

Age 15 years and up, parental consent required. 

About the Instructor:

Darlene Gentry has over thirty years’ experience in martial arts, women’s self-defense, and self-defense education for the public. She teaches self-defense part-time at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and has instructed women's self-defense courses in many different venues. Darlene also regularly teaches R.A.D. courses for free at Lexington Park Baptist Church.

Registrants e-mail addresses will be shared with the course instructor. 

She will provide participants with the registration forms and details about the class like: what clothes to wear, how strenuous the activities are, etc.

For more information on RAD programs, visit The R.A.D. Systems of Self Defense 

Any R.A.D. graduate from any class in the U.S. and Canada can attend another instructor’s class for practice free of charge for the rest of her life!

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