About this Event
PERSIST — Session 3 of the Predictive Readiness Series
Saturday, November 7 | Moore Than Fitness
Most self-defense training stops at the hit.
You get taught to strike. You do not get taught when to stop, how to get out, or what happens to you afterward. That gap is this session.
PERSIST covers the three things that happen after contact, in the order they actually happen:
The break-off. You have gone hands-on. Now what? Adrenaline is telling you either to keep going or to lock up, and neither one is a decision. Knowing when to stop, and how to make the gap, is a trained skill — not an instinct. Staying in it past the point of usefulness is the first mistake.
The retreat. Moving while your body is not the body you trained with. Tunnel vision, no fine motor control, time running strangely, legs that do not do what you expect. Where you go, who you move toward, and what you actually say to get another person to help you. This is where the second mistake gets made — people get out of the contact and then make a bad call in the next sixty seconds.
The after. The adrenaline dump, and what lands in the first minutes, the first night, the first week. Settling your nervous system. Why the memory comes back in pieces, why that is normal, and why it matters if you ever have to describe what happened to anyone. Then the part that is the whole point: getting back to going where you go.
Readiness does not end when the threat ends. Safety is not the absence of risk — it is the presence of options, and that includes the options you still have afterward.
It is not a fear session and it is not a therapy session. It is practical and hands-on.
Attendees tell me this is the one they feel the most.
No prior sessions required — you do not need to have attended Sessions 1 or 2 to take this one.
Everyone leaves with the Momba After Incident card.
Carmen "The Momba" made her pro boxing debut at 47 and is 6-2 in the ring — backed by thirty years in martial arts and multiple black belts. A master instructor, she's taught everyone from women's groups and youth and diversity organizations to first responders and law enforcement. She's a health researcher and a Division I collegiate athlete, and was the 2025 RVA Female Athlete of the Year runner-up. She's also a homeschooling mom of three, married to a disabled Army veteran, and runs Momba Promotions — a women-owned, military-owned small business right here in Richmond. She teaches readiness: awareness, boundary management, and decision-making when things go sideways.
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