When looking for a specific skill set, it is important that you seek out the best source of specific skills training and the most highly qualified competent instructors.

Just joining the closest club or the one that is affordable is a negative when it comes to your personal safety in regards to self-protection. You should never settle for anything less than the best means of self-protection.

Knowing what training you are looking for is very important.

To protect you against urban violence or against domestic or sexual violence requires a specialist set of tactics and skills.

Think like a realist and ask yourself, could you use traditional or competition striking kicking and  grappling techniques  against someone meaning to cause you grievous bodily harm, abiding by no rules or laws of the land and who could be armed.

Ask yourself, do your skills or the skills you are considering provide the best chance of neutralising the threat if there is no out or preventive option at your disposal.

Does the style and techniques provide the best means of stopping an assault, regardless of gender or physical attributes or capabilities?

In your mind’s eye consider media reported violence including Court News reports of Street, sexual and domestic violence in your country and city.

Always remember you will be facing people acting outside society’s acceptable behaviour and outside the law.

Rules regulations and training etiquette are not relevant.

You must be sure that the skills effectiveness you learn are not determined by gender or require you to be more physically advantaged and capable than your aggressor in physical attributes size and strength.

Has the style or system been developed specifically for self-defence or unarmed combat requirements and will it  give the best and safest chance of neutralising commonly faced serious violence threats.

Has the system been approved and adopted for use by the military where their personnel’s lives depend upon the proven effectiveness of the skills.  Does it have a long history of safe effective usage? If the military will not settle for anything less proven and effective, why should and would you?

The military are our last line of protection in times of war and skills proven for self-protection in war should provide maximum combative and self protection capabilities.

The reality is there are violent acts in society as terrible as seen in war times,you only have to watch the news and read the papers.

Only the best and most proven means of self-protection is important in relation to threat types such as weapon threats, mugging and sexual violence that require very specific means of threat neutralisation that could hardly be described as competitive or traditional.

Very important considerations when you must overcome criminal violence that requires the most proven and effective means to do so.

Only the best and most proven means of self-protection   is important in relation to neutralising threat types such as weapon threats, mugging and sexual violence that require very specific means of threat neutralisation that could hardly be described as competitive or traditional.

Serious violent criminals are not going to take you on in a competition type encounter on the street. They are going to ensure they have every advantage and means to achieve their objectives outside of the laws of the land.

Is your self-defence a non-sporting non-traditional style or system specifically developed and meant for real world current self-defence against real world extreme violence.

Is it a current living package that is constantly kept ahead of violent threats and trends in relation to providing the best most proven and safest methods of neutralising such threats?

Think like a realist and ask yourself would that punch, kick or throw work against a violent foe wanting to cause you grievous bodily harm.

The right tools for the job is very important, especially when there are no rules officials safety equipment or protectors and your attackers intention is to do you serious harm.

Don’t be influenced by non-relevant things like flashy uniforms, belts, tournament trophies or the like when it comes to your self-protection.

Be a realist think like a realist and ask yourself the hard questions in regards to if you honestly believe you could neutralise a violent attacker  with the techniques on offer or those  you possess.

Always remember that war must provide dirty and deadly methods for close combat and self-defence that would never be allowed even in no holds barred fighting competitions.

Your skills must provide even the underdog with the best safest and most proven means and chance of victory.

Always presume your foe are bigger stronger physically fitter skilled in methods of causing you harm bent on doing so and could be armed.

Know that to neutralise such a threat requires the most basic proven dirty tricks brigade practices employed by means of tactics that provide every edge and advantage.

Take into account there is no gender or weight divisions when it comes to violent urban, domestic or sexual violence threats.

Determine if  the instruction provides the best chance of safely and effectively neutralising the threat and if  the instructor been trained and qualified in the specific required skills sets needed to neutralise current extreme violence.

Think like the violent offenders in relation to where when and what they have in store for their victims. You must always remember that proven and effective self-defence and unarmed combat is your last line of self-protection when there is no escape or out option.

When there is no chance of de-escalation, risk reduction or negotiation and the violent offender has one thing in mind and that is to cause grievous bodily harm, you need the best most proven and safest means of threat neutralisation.

I will cover your personal requirements to achieve a positive outcome in upcoming blogs.

This blog is to outline the specialist skill set self-defence and unarmed combat that is needed to be best ready and prepared to deal with serious violence.

How many of you do your research and homework before opting for the closest most convenient or the least expensive option when it comes to your self-defence?

In the words of the late Charles Nelson a former instructor WW11 USMC hand to hand combat instructor and life time urban self-defence instructor, the most important trophy you will ever defend and fight for is your life. Not a tin cup at a tournament.

Never think that the average citizen every day person is like the superstar fighting champions or the movie star tough guys are real life reality as it applies to the average citizen defending themselves.

Always remember that just because a style or code is considered very effective for fighting competition doesn’t mean to say it will provide the means for someone without all the physical capabilities to defend themselves when up against a formidable threat.

Neither does it always provide the means to deal with unarmed and armed threats that would never be permitted in combat sports competition.

It is the illegal unpredictable unexpected and life-threatening violence that specialist self-defence tactics and training need to prepare responsible decent citizen’s to be able to neutralise.

Through planning preparation practice and the provision of sound anti-encounter training provided by a specialist self-defence instructor, the threat and risk can be reduced to the lowest level humanly possible.

Keep your feet on the ground keep it real when it comes to your self-protection capabilities and the realities of the violence faced in your world.

Training for a life time in a traditional martial art may not prepare you best to deal with several seconds of criminal violence.

Most citizens do want to be capable of avoiding preventing or neutralising violent threats but do not want to train their entire life to be able to do so. Neither do the majority of citizens want to compete in combat sports. The average responsible citizen with the smarts needs to be ready willing and able to defend themselves by the best of battle proven means. Safe effective methods must be simple gross motor skills that have been proven as a primary means of threat neutralisation.   Fewer options are more when up against extreme violence as the higher the level of risk and threat the less time to decide and prepare and the higher the need for a single primary means of threat neutralisation.

Often a single principle based means of threat neutralisation can neutralise a complete threat category and this is an advantage in high risk serious violent threats situations.

Just the most proven and safest and effective tactics and skills are required.

By majority citizens do not want to be over paranoid or spend their life training in their self-protection, but they do want to be able to defend themselves if there is no other option available.

Unfortunately, many wait until after an unfortunate situation to seek out self-protection training.

This is because they think it will never happen to them and percentages in relation to victims of violence do support this.

However if you are a target of criminal violence and do not possess the capabilities to neutralise the violent threat your safety is compromised by considerable.

The minority of those that undertake such training become enthusiasts and continue to train as a hobby and to ensure they are best prepared to protect themselves and their loved ones by remaining current.

We train current and former military and police personnel close protection specialists, combat sports fighters and martial arts black belts in our military combative and military self- defence courses of instruction.

This is because these organisations and individuals have the smarts and realise the necessity for having the best of battle proven methods of threat neutralisation when the unfortunate unpredictable and extremely violent threats rear their ugly heads and need to be neutralised.

Martial arts black belts combat sports fighters and many practitioners of non-military instructed styles undertake our military self-defence and military combative training for civilians because they realise the threats they may well face are outside the range of expertise and capabilities provided in their specific art or sport.

In the words of the late Bill Hall World War II bomber command veteran trained in military unarmed combat and a lifelong self-defence enthusiast. Military self-defence is the best insurance possible for responsible citizens when there is no other means of keeping yourself safe.

Very important considerations prior to committing to training for your self-protection or upskilling in your self-defence capabilities.