The Safety Box Introduction to Self Defence Course

Welcome to the The Safety Box Introduction to Self Defence Course happening in Uxbridge! Join us on September 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM for an empowering and informative session on self-defence techniques. Learn how to protect yourself and build confidence in challenging situations. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your personal safety skills in a supportive environment. See you there!

As an organisation The Safety Box run a number of self defence training programs through our protection courses arm of the business for professionals working both in the public and private sector.

We have trained professionals who have worked for the Army, Security Service, Police, Prison Officers, Social Workers, Corporate Bankers, City workers, Nurses and Health Care / Care Workers.

All our programs are built with the insight gained from the experience of our work with offenders, we use a real approach to all of our self defence strategies.

The Safety Box F.A.S.T (Fear, Adrenalised, Stress, Training) defence courses shows participants how the body reacts under severe, adrenaline fuelled encounters and then how to turn that reaction into a positive outcome. The defences are practiced full-on against our padded ‘Bulletmen’.

Simplicity is the key to all our skills. If it isn't simple, you'll probably not be able to utilise it under pressure.

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 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.