Women choose to train in martial arts for a variety reasons: fitness, stress reduction, a sense of
empowerment, and competition to name just a few. However, learning self-defense is by far the
most common reason women choose to train in martial arts. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is almost tailor
made for women as a method of self-defense as it was developed from its origin to neutralize
any advantage of power, size, or strength. At Kimura BJJ Boston we find that having males and
females train together in the same classes, offers our female students the advantage of gaining
very real and practical experience in actually applying what they learn, in scenarios that
replicate threats they might encounter by would be attackers in real life. Simply put there is no
better self-defense training for women than Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.