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The kind of students who would lose interest in training because they realize that their instructor is a mortal human being, is not the kind of students we want at the Straight Blast Gym.
You must know your students well in order to motivate them well.

This myth demonstrates the dramatic difference between the beggars humility and warriors humility. The beggar will bow down and scrape the floor for any man he deems to be greater than him; but at the same time he will demand that any man he deems to be lesser, bow down and scrape the floor for him. The warrior bows down before no man, and allows no man to bow down before him.

At this gym we must strive for the humility of warrior and shun the humility of a beggar.

There is nothing more away from the truth than this! The primary goal for training the martial arts for most women is not competition, it is self-defense. They want to be able to stop or divert a potential aggressor (usually man) in "street-fighting" situation. Training with women might be a nice social or athletic event and gives good fitness conditioning, too, but from the point of view of self-defense against an aggressor - man, it is useless. Why? Simply because men are usually larger than women and they don't fight the same way as women do.

So, to develop skills useful in real "street-fighting" situation, women have to train in similar conditions - with men. There is also an important factor of psychological conditioning. Women training with men are not going to panic or be impressed by a larger size and aggressiveness of the male aggressor. They have seen this many times before!

Well, this is more a question of a personal choice, first of all. In martial ats there are many men as much as women who enjoy the long-range combat (punching, kicking...) but who don't like to be in close (trapping or grappling) range with their opponents. That's fine. But there is one thing which makes it different for women. As said before, most women do martial arts in order to gain some experience in self-defense. Attacked by a man, there is much higher probability for a woman to be taken to the ground than there is for a man. That's a simple question of size and strength. And in that situation it is of crucial importance for a woman to know how to defend herself.

When fighting with a larger and stronger male on the ground, the use of proper technique is her only chance to escape or even save her life. The technique does not come by itself, it must be learned during the realistic training. So, grappling with larger male partners has its important place in women's MA training. Many women realize that and would like to learn some basic ground fighting. However, there is something else to stop them. The society. The common view of any closer contact between two opposite sexes as something which should not be encouraged.

Well, grappling is a close contact, there is no doubt about that! Any woman (and, by the way, any man, too) can feel uncomfortable in such a close range the first few times. But, as she (or he) progresses, she finds very quickly that in martial arts people are not divided to men and women. All of them consider themselves "only" as human beings on their way to find and improve themselves.

The martial arts way is the way of respect for each other