The inspiration behind become a problem
Every woman has to watch this video.
A few years ago, a video circulated online of a woman being attacked inside a gym.
The attacker tried to assault her in a private room. What followed was nearly 20 minutes of resistance. She kicked, pushed, scrambled, fought, and refused to give in. Eventually the attacker gave up and fled.
What struck me wasn’t technique.
She had no formal training.
Most self-defense conversations focus on techniques. Specific moves. Responses. But real violence rarely gives you perfect conditions. It is chaotic, fast, and deeply uncomfortable. What actually disrupts an attacker is resistance that makes the situation difficult, loud, unpredictable, and risky.
Predators rely on easy targets.
People who freeze.
People who comply.
People who are easy to control.
When someone refuses to be controlled, the equation changes. That video shows something important: you do not have to be the biggest or the strongest. You have to be difficult enough that the attacker realises you are not easy prey.
That idea became the foundation of Become a Problem.
This training is not about turning women into fighters. In fact, this work is for those women who don’t want to train a martial art for decades, but they understand that one self-defense class isn’t enough.
It is about developing the awareness, mindset, and drilling the physical responses that make you harder to dominate, harder to control, and harder to select in the first place.
Because violence rarely begins with an attack.
It begins with selection.
And when the wrong person is selected, the goal is simple: