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Learn to know yourself

Learn to know yourself

Activities such as mountaineering, fell running, mountain biking can be put into the category of endurance activities. On reflection, the activity i recently planned proved to be a challenge too far.

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True Strength

True Strength

A lion does not use it’s strength indiscriminately. The lions strength is used to protect and defend the pride. 

True strength should not be used to exploit others, self defence skills should only be used to confront 

the enemy.

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Situational Awareness Update

Situational Awareness Update

I have written about situational awareness many times in the past. However, I believe it merits repeating again in order to share these concepts with our new readers and it will also serve as a reminder for our longtime readers.

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Stress Inoculation Training

Stress Inoculation Training

Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) is the term used to represent a collection of coping strategies provided to the student. Developed in the late 1970s by Donald Meichenbaum, SIT was originally designed for use with multiple populations of individuals. Often thought of as “mental armour”, SIT helps to “inoculate” individuals to future potentially traumatising stressors, teaching them to psychologically deal more effectively with the stressors.

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Coronavirus

Coronavirus

What is COVID-19?
A new virus, that is causing outbreaks of respiratory infection.
Some cases are mild, but some are severe and can be lethal.

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Fighting Styles

Fighting Styles

Guardian Defence training programme includes ground fighting. We train in context of street self defence. This post will outline how our curriculum was developed.

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The art of Budo

The art of Budo

In traditional martial arts the “Rei” (custom of bowing) in training is practiced in dojos throughout the world. This is important because it helps us to understand the relationship between the “Uke” (The person who initiates an attack) and the “Tori” (The person who successfully completes the defence/technique)

We should not loose sight of this training etiquette when training in Krav Maga Self Defence.

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Street Knife Attack

Street Knife Attack

Knife attacks are becoming so common place. In order to significantly improve your chance of survival it is crucial to know how a knife attacker will strike, and learn countermeasure defences with the use of improvised weapons.

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