Self Protection UK

CCC is one of the fundamental combatives concepts - unlike sports fighting, street attack usually takes you by surprise. In response to attack, it's advantageous to move rapidly from reactive to proactive to regain the upper hand and survive.

Group attack is the most likely scenario for street attack. Elbows with a high covering guard and constant movement is a good approach if your objective is primarily to avoid triangulation, to cover yourself from a variety of attacking angles and to have the option of striking back without the possibility of hurting your hands.

Cheap and cheerful floor-to-ceiling ball that can be suspended from pretty much anything

Frames are used in boxing and other martial arts and sports fighting to temporarily control an opponent and take away their ability to strike. done aggressively, they are very effective and versatile in a self defence scenario

There are no fool proof methodologies for self defence against a knife. Avoid conflict, always expect a knife to be a possibility, keep distance and buy time. if you cannot make distance, you'll need to try to stop the knife arm, attach and fight. There are many ways, the most simple and versatile is likely to be the one you'll remember under duress.

A little training tool you can use to work good sharp biomechanics on the jab-cross

Boxing and other sports fighting techniques take time to perfect but there are a host of tools that are familiar to most without the need for precision or skill. Gross motor slamming is very powerful and very direct and performs the functions of cover, crash, counter in one simple movement.

In self defence, there is no referee to ensure our safety, no coming back from the ground. it's important to be conservative with balance and not sacrifice balance for power. This little KGB knee is a very effective way to use the knee in a street attack scenario

Some tips on strategies for shadow boxing for the purposes of self defence

Using the most likely physiological compulsions and just making them better is smart. The street haymaker is a very common technique in street attack. we can do it too but better.

Attackers will usually grab and try to take your balance either clothes grabs or hair pulling. Trying to regain composure from this dynamic off-balancing is very challenging. A little look at the core concepts on how to neutralise the leverage of grabs and pulls.

The most fundamental self defence tool

A little snippet of a pressure test with a novice student. The parameters are loose to allow for spontaneous response and reaction. Being prescriptive does not adequately prepare for the dynamic nature of reality.