Modern Defendo Close Quarter Combat Workshop

Modern Defendo Close Quarter Combat Workshop London 19th and 20th September   Instructor – Bill Wolfe Ensure sound is on… Bill Wolfe is a world leading self defence innovator, teacher, mentor, and author. Universally recognised by such martial arts publications as Black Belt, Inside Kung Fu, Martial Arts Combat Sports, Fighter, Close Combat, Martial Arts [...]

Real World Knife Attacks and Defences

A question was put up on a self-defense forum I frequent in the section about knife attacks and defenses – asking if anyone had been unarmed and forced to disarm an attacker that had a knife. A couple of people responded and I thought I would put their answers here. ————————————————— I have done it [...]

Self Defense – 1 Part Technique – 9 Parts ATTITUDE

Women aren’t that much different than men – many will defend themselves without any training – with men or women, this type of training is about empowerment. It is as much about building confidence that will provide that enough courage to actually take action against an assailant. Its imperative that action be EFFECTIVE and not [...]

Personal Self Defense Through Awareness

Too many times I see it: The mother pushes her shopping cart up to the car, opens the passenger door, deposits her child into the car seat, shuts the door and THEN goes to load the groceries into the car. What is wrong with this picture? I’m certain most of you do the same thing [...]

Gendai – Modern Jujutsu Schools

Jujutsu is generally divided into two major groups: traditional (koryu) and modern (gendai) schools. These classifications are based on the time of development of particular jujutsu school (style, Ryu). There are at least three commonly used definitions of “koryu” and “gendai”. The most accepted analysis uses the Meiji Reformation as the time of demarcation between [...]