At Western Combatives, we offer a range of highly structured self defence courses that cater to all experience levels, from beginners to advanced practitioners. Whether you're looking to improve your safety, gain confidence, or learn tactical skills for high-risk environments, our courses are designed to meet your needs. The focus is on practical, real-world self-defence techniques that prepare you to handle a variety of threats effectively and efficiently.
Our self defence lessons are not just about physical techniques but also emphasize mental preparation and situational awareness, ensuring that you’re ready to respond to potential threats with the right mindset. Each module is led by experienced instructors who are committed to providing you with the highest level of training in a supportive and empowering environment.
If you prefer a more personalized approach, we offer self defence personal training for individuals or small groups. This allows you to receive one-on-one instruction tailored to your unique goals and fitness level. We also run self defence workshops throughout the year, providing intensive, focused training on specific aspects of personal protection.
Seminars:
Grade 1: Pad Holding
You will learn the correct method to hold pads applicable to Combative Pad Drills and Combat Sports. You cannot progress in our classes without the ability to hold pads. Holding pads is an important job & can make or break the quality of the session your training partner receives!
Grade 2: Self Defence Strategies & Tactics
You will experience the empty handed guantlet where your verbal de-escalation skills will be put to the test as well as your space management, positioning, using the environment to your advantage & basic physical skills.
Grade 3: Combative Boxing
You will learn basic dirty boxing skills and how to apply them in a self defence context. Everything from footwork, striking & head movement
Grade 4: Combative Kickboxing
In addition to the boxing skills from Grade 3 we will add kicking, kneeing & Elbows to the mix again with the same objective of being able to utilise it under pressure
Grade 5: Combative Striking
Learn the C2 striking system created by Mick Coup. Efficient, Economical & Effective!
Grade 6: Close Quarter Combat
Assaults take place in close proximity. You quite often don't have the distance required to utilise your full arsenal. This Module teaches you how to be effective in the clinch. We cover the shredder, combative takedowns and sweeps, wrestling for self defence and more!
Grade 7: Combative Ground
Our preference is not to be on the ground however this is sometimes unavoidable. Our best means is the 'sprawl & brawl' with an emphasis on scrambling, posting, establishing control & getting back to our feet as quickly as possible. We also cover breaking submissions and recovering from bad positions utilising any means necessary!
Grade 8: Weapon Threats
This Module deals with the various threats one may encounter in a self defence situation. Everything from edged to blunt weapons as well as firearm disarms etc.
Grade 9: Multiple Attackers
Fighting one person is tough enough, learn the best strategies to be able to deal with more than one assailant.
Grade 10: Dynamic Knife
One of the most difficult scenarios in a self defence situation is a person with a blade intent on harming you. Study what we in collaboration with many of the worlds leading authorities have formulated to best deal with possibly the most terrifying aspect of self defence.
Grade 11: Third Party Protection
This module deals with being responsible for the safety of another person. It deals with strategies to help protect others & come to their aid.
Grade 12: Brawl & Maul
Brawl & Maul is all our modules streamlined into the techniques/concepts which appear consistently when our training intensity is at its peak. It is also those that we see time and time again in self defence situations that we have experienced or seen via cctv .This module is best completed in a seminar style format & will be available online very soon!
