Personal Protection and Self Defence Course (Intro)

Welcome to the Personal Protection and Self Defence Course (Intro) happening at The Safety Box (Ikigai Dojo) on December 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM (Europe/London time).

Ready to boost your confidence and learn essential self-defence skills? Join us for an interactive session where you'll discover practical techniques to protect yourself in various situations. At The Safety Box, we have studied the most common threats to young people’s safety. Every scenario we train is drawn directly from police reports of actual incidents, gang attacks, and real life violent incidents ensuring that our role-plays are not hypothetical, they are acutely relevant.

Our F.A.S.T. (Fear Adrenaline Stress Training) Defence courses go beyond theory. Pupils learn how the body reacts when the heart rate spikes under adrenaline-fuelled encounters when fine motor skills collapse and only gross functional movements remain. We teach how to harness that surge of energy, turning instinctive reactions into effective defensive tactics.

Training is delivered at full intensity against our padded “Bulletmen,” so participants experience what it feels like to block, move, and defend under pressure. The emphasis is on simplicity: if a skill isn’t simple, it won’t survive the chaos of a real confrontation.

This is training that takes safety to a real level where heartbeats, stress, and survival instincts meet practical, usable defence.

Don't miss this opportunity to empower yourself and enhance your personal safety. See you there!

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT FROM OTHER BREAKAWAY DEFENCE ENTERPRISES?

We recognise that breakaway techniques are essential manoeuvres to break away from a potentially violent person without harming him or her, however what if they lash out and hit you and pick something up to use as a weapon? The Safety Box has worked with real offenders in Her Majesty and Prison Probation service and have a deep understanding of how people have been attacked in the past. All of our techniques have been developed with this knowledge and insight; we also utilise Gross Motor Functional movement for all our blocking series and weapon assisted attacks.

WHY WE USE GROSS MOTOR FUNCTIONAL BASED SELF DEFENCE

The Safety Box uses gross motor functional blocking within all of our programs, which makes us different from many other providers. The reason for this is that during an attack the heart rate rapidly increases. Once the heart rate reaches over 145 beats per minute our complex motor skills (writing, small movements, martial arts skills) immediately begin to deteriorate.

When the heart exceeds 175 beats per minute adrenaline in the body is secreted at a rate that prohibits logical thought. Peripheral vision is lost, hearing excludes everything. Not only that, but tunnel vision and vascular constriction sets in as a natural way to reduce bleeding from any wounds you're about to suffer. Traditional martial art trained complex moves are very difficult to pull off and after combat freezing, begging for your life or the bladder emptying, the only movements you have left is gross motor skills; namely. Running, Large Circular Movements, Wide and Big movements with your arms, or charging, kicking or curling up.

WE TRAIN PEOPLE'S BODIES HOW TO RESPOND APPROPRIATELY 

The Safety Box Self Defence program is also designed to aid people on how to defend themselves effectively against a knife, how women can protect themselves and also how to avoid gun cross fire. We take safeguarding very seriously and train participants at a very real level of physical conflict using both rubber and blunt metallic knifes. We take a realistic, multi-sensory, practical and strategic approach to deal with the instinctual gross-motor body movement when in a state of adrenaline secretion.

We train people's bodies how to respond appropriately under a fear or anger induced stress conditions, simulated in a competitive scenario. Our training methods have been used in real life by both military personnel and highly trained combat experts.

STATISTICS:

According to Home Office statistics:

• In the UK, 1 in 4 women will experience domestic abuse and 1 in 5 sexual assault during her lifetime.
• The Crime Survey of England and Wales estimates 20% of women have experienced some type of sexual assault since the age of 16, equivalent to an estimated 3.4 million female victims.
• 5 in 6 victims (83%) did not report their experiences to the police.
• An estimated 3.1% of women aged 16-59 experienced sexual assault in the last year.
• Approximately 2 million adults experienced domestic abuse last year.

Support services for women who have fled violence, such as refugees, are in crisis also after cuts to funding amounting to 65% since 2010.

Our programs teach women and girls how to avoid unwelcome attention from an adult or teenage predators. Within our FAST initiative, Anti Rape Defence for Women, Personal Protection Program, they use full force defensive strikes and physical contact to fight off an adult predator.