[mmierz]

Probably not, martial arts classes that are marketed as self defense or exercise rather than as training for combat sports get a significant number of women

[maximus-decimus]

Maybe it's just me but it seems tone deaf to go pick up women in a course about kicking harassers butts. It feels like something they would do in Wedding Crashers.

[brigandish]

Putting yourself in the vicinity of the opposite sex while doing some useful activity is not quite the same as picking up women.