We still have a few places open for this Saturday 23 September. SAVE the Day is an evidence-based, experiential program that empowers you with the knowledge and skills you need to survive the most important five seconds of your life. In a single day we will teach you how to save your own life, or the life of someone you… Read more →
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SAVE the Day: SYD 16 Feb 2020
Our next ‘SAVE the Day’ Sydney training program is in February. SAVE the Day is the best once-and-done training experience available in Australia. Download pdf: SAVE the Day SYD 16 Feb 2020 (full registration and payment details). Sunday 16 February 2020, 8.30 am to 5.30 pm Aikido in Sydney Bridge Road School 127 Parramatta Road, Camperdown NSW See Location for access… Read more →
SAVE the Day: BNE 18 Jan 2020
We’re running another ‘SAVE the Day’ training program in Brisbane. SAVE the Day is the best once-and-done training experience available in Australia. Download pdf: SAVE the Day BNE 18 Jan 2020 (full registration and payment details). Saturday 18 January 2020, 8.30 am to 5.30 pm Onami DojoCapalaba Scout Hall65 Degen Road, Capalaba QldSee Onami Dojo website for location details Cost $345 Earlybird… Read more →
Save the Day for martial artists
Save the Day is neither a martial art nor self-defence in the conventional sense. It’s how to break human structure. For martial artists it’s an extension of their existing training, providing knowledge and skills essential in a crisis. What it is… Save the Day is a once-and-done survival skill. Think of it as a military-grade crash-course for civilians, because those… Read more →
SAVE the Day: BNE 8 Dec 2018
Announcing our first Brisbane ‘SAVE the Day’ training. SAVE the Day is the best once-and-done training experience available in Australia. Download pdf: SAVE the Day BNE 8 Dec 2018 (full registration and payment details). Saturday 8 December 2018, 8.30 am to 5.30 pm Onami Dojo Capalaba Scout Hall 65 Degen Road, Capalaba Qld See Onami Dojo website for location details Cost $345… Read more →
SAVE the Day: SYD 2 Dec 2018
Learn to survive your attempted murder: announcing our first Sydney ‘SAVE the Day’ one-day atemi-jutsu foundation training. Download pdf: SAVE the Day, SYD 2 Dec 2018 containing full details including registration, payment and release and indemnity agreement. Sunday 2 December 2018, 8.30 am to 5.30 pm Aikido in Sydney Bridge Road School 127 Parramatta Road, Camperdown NSW See Location for… Read more →
Atemi-jutsu live training: SYD 15–16 Sep 2018
Details of our next atemi-jutsu live training weekend in Sydney. Learn to survive the most critical 5 seconds of your life. Live training weekend Download pdf with full details including payment, registration and release and indemnity agreement 15–16 Sep 2018 (Sat–Sun), 8.30 am to 5.30 pm each day Bridge Road School, 127 Parramatta Road, Camperdown NSW 2050. See Location for… Read more →
Meeting the mongrel
Whistles. Dirty laughs. “Oooh, fancy hat!” A drunk young guy thrusts his crotch at me threateningly, limboing closer and closer. He’s backed up by equally drunk mates. I’m out with my husband on a rare, kid-free date night. Nothing outrageous, just a civilised drink in Glebe. We stroll arm-in-arm through quiet streets towards Central. On Broadway we hear a group… Read more →
Why we don’t teach women’s self defence
There is no such thing as ‘women’s self defence’. There, we’ve said it. But it’s a scary world out there you say? ‘Self defence’ conventionally includes all the things you do to ensure you are not in a situation where you can be assaulted in the first place. You’re probably doing all that already, as the current debate in the… Read more →
Terrorism, self defence and training
Anyone who has watched TV recently might well believe their best option is to lock the door and never set foot outside again! It may be a pretty tough world we live in, but that’s a long way from reality. Australia, like many countries in the developed world, is a really safe place to live. Terror attacks are highly unlikely,… Read more →
Aikido is 100% striking, but without the striking…
Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido, is famously quoted as saying that aikido is 90% . Yet atemi is absent from much of modern aikido. Aikido today is known for its beautiful flowing movements. In our roles as and we practice the of, and defences to, aikido techniques. In the pursuit of this beauty, aikido often omits the atemi built… Read more →
Violence doesn’t discriminate
Violence doesn’t discriminate, and nor do we. If you need to protect yourself or a loved one from unavoidable violence, it’s nice to know that the physical universe has your back. The laws of physics (and the principles of TFT) work for everybody, regardless of sexuality, gender identity, genetics, socialisation, culture, ethnicity, spirituality, size, age, health, wealth and dress sense. There’s only… Read more →
Every woman has the right to:
feel safe and be safe at home, at work and on the street; live, work, travel and socialise without harassment; and hospitalise anyone that attempts to restrict these rights through physical assault! On International Women’s Day 2017 we affirm every woman’s right to learn to use the tool of violence to save her own life, or the life of someone she loves, in a… Read more →
How will you react to unavoidable violence?
“These situations not only left their scars but also taught me a few things…” My Dad was an SAS officer. He tried to teach me and my brother a few ‘self defence’ moves, although they were a little extreme for the playground. Later he enrolled us in judo, which we both loved and continued to train into our late teens. Like most… Read more →
Radical therapy for a Good Girl
I was attacked one day during my first semester in Berlin… I’m learning how to render an attacker non-functional. This is a cleaner way of saying I’m learning how to break joints, rupture eyeballs and testicles and do whatever else it takes to stop someone who is intent on killing me or my loved ones. It turns out it just doesn’t matter that men… Read more →