Protect
Cover what matters first. Structure before technique.
A practical personal defense system developed at Yarber's Martial Arts, built around a single honest loop: Protect → Move → Respond → Recover. Designed for everyday people, not for a uniform.
FFDS is not open for public enrollment yet. It is being field tested with our current martial arts students for roughly 45 days before the first public FFDS Foundations workshop.

The core loop
Cover what matters first. Structure before technique.
Get off the line. Distance is the first answer.
One decisive, trainable response — not twenty options.
Reset your base, your breath and your exit.
Where it stands today
FFDS is being taught and stress-tested inside our existing martial arts classes. Every session produces notes: what held up, what needed simplifying, what a beginner could do under fatigue.
When the field test closes, we open with a public FFDS Foundations workshop — a single session that teaches the whole loop and stands on its own.
Join the First Access list and you'll be invited before we announce it publicly. No payment, no commitment.
Field test
~45 days
First public event
FFDS Foundations
Enrollment
Not open yet