Introduction Course We’re running our Level 1 Introduction course on the morning of Saturday 25th February, from 9am to 12pm, covering the soft and hard skills of self-protection. Personal safety is not just about punching any would be attacker between the eyes. It’s also about avoiding conflict and staying within the law if you need
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Every woman who has ever been on the dating scene knows that while there may be plenty of fish in the sea, there are plenty you’d rather throw back. Chances are, when you’re actively dating to try to find Mr. Right, you’ll go on plenty of perfectly nice dates with guys who just aren’t quite right. Unfortunately,
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This is the signal to alert someone that you are the victim of domestic violence and it’s not safe to talk about it. New research has revealed that the coronavirus lock down brought about a marked increase in domestic violence. Police records show that one call relating to domestic abuse was made every thirty seconds in the first seven
As many of you know, I teach karate in schools and halls, five days a week. I was sad to hear from the mother of one of my students that he had recently been attacked but glad to hear that he successfully defended himself and his friends. Here’s the story: Three teenage boys from a
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Without doubt, Bruce Lee was perhaps the reason so millions of people fell in love with martial arts. After all, this skinny guy appeared to possess almost superhuman reflexes, phenomenal strength and martial arts skills that were far beyond anything seen on camera. In one of his earlier books The Tao of Gung Fu, Bruce
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Knife attacks have massively increased in recent years, especially in the London area and suburbs where it has been linked to gang and drug crime. Here’s our advice should you be unlucky enough to face a knife attacker. First Aid If an attacker uses a knife against you, the chances are that you’ll suffer a
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I have no doubt that knives are the biggest threat on our streets today and the problem is getting worse. Knives are commonly used in street robberies, gang violence and domestic disputes. The Evening Standard newspaper recently released this report: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-knife-crime-hits-highest-level-ever-recorded-a3965111.html highlighting the fact that knife crime in London has reached the highest level ever.
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The newspapers are full of horrifying stories recently concerning violent street attacks. If it isn’t bad enough that terrorist attacks in cities are more frequent, now the latest trend seems to be acid and moped attacks. But why is this happening? Times and trends seem to change much more rapidly than previous decades. The internet,
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Just recently, The Times newspaper wrote an article ‘Jihadist attacks prompt rush to learn self-defence’. Several martial arts instructors who run self-defence courses commented that they get more enquiries after acts of terrorism especially when the terrorists use knives and swords rather than bombs and bullets. People get the feeling that they stand more of
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We have just launched our new Loughton Self-Defence website. take a look around, we hope you will find the information useful.
