WarriorUp – Women’s Self-defence and Empowerment
What you'll learn
- Enhanced Physical Readiness: Develop the physical strength and agility to effectively defend yourself against threats.
- Tactical Awareness: Gain the skills to assess and respond to dangerous situations with confidence and precision.
- Instinctive Reactions: Train your body to respond instinctively and quickly, reducing hesitation in critical moments.
- Mental Fortitude: Build a resilient mindset that empowers you to stay calm and focused under pressure.
- Situational Awareness: Learn to recognise potential dangers in your environment and take proactive steps to avoid them.
- Effective Communication: Master assertive communication techniques to deter potential attackers and seek help when needed.
- Targeted Striking Techniques: Acquire knowledge of the most effective places to strike to incapacitate an attacker swiftly.
- Confidence Boost: Increase your self-confidence through the mastery of practical self-defence skills, knowing you can protect yourself.
- Muscle Memory Development: Embed critical self-defence techniques into muscle memory, ensuring quick and reliable recall in emergencies.
- Holistic Safety Strategy: Integrate physical, tactical, and mental strategies into a comprehensive approach to personal safety and well-being.
Requirements
- No previous experience required.
- No equipment required and minimal space needed.
- Flexibility is a plus but no particular level of fitness is required.
Description
In today's world, threats like drink spiking, stalking, and physical and sexual assault are on the rise. But what if you could enhance your physical, tactical, and mental skills with minimal time invested? WarriorUp is under 15 minutes a day to boost your confidence, empowering you so if danger comes your way, you have a solution.
WarriorUp combines 40 years of martial arts and self-defence expertise with the science of muscle memory to equip you with instinctive and effective life skills against common threats. Here’s how we do it:
1. Bite-Sized, Clear Video Instruction: Concise videos, filmed from easy-to-follow angles to help you learn quickly and correctly.
2. Comprehensive Skill Development: Learn physical techniques, tactical strategies, and the mindset required to understand and anticipate the actions of predators and violent people.
3. Simplified and Instinctive Response System (SIRS): Embed essential skills into muscle memory, enabling you to respond without hesitation.
4. Principles of Power: Master the three principles of power to generate speed and power to defend against larger attackers.
5. Tactical Targeting: Learn the most effective places to strike to quickly incapacitate larger, more violent attackers.
6. Memory Retention Techniques: Use world-class memory techniques and visualisation processes to ensure you retain and recall these skills when needed, even years later.
7. Integrated Skill Sequences: Each module ends with a short sequence (under 20 seconds) encompassing all physical skills learned, making it easy to review and reinforce these as life skills (perfect when waiting for the kettle to boil).
8. 3-Minute Blaster Drills: Engage in solo, partner, and punch bag drills to accelerate skill development, muscle memory and power.
9. Self-Assessment Videos: Use your mobile phone to film your practice sequences and compare them to graded examples (poor, average, excellent) to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
10. Efficient Learning: We prioritise demonstration and drills over lengthy explanations. For those needing more detail, 3-minute micro reads are available on key topics.
WarriorUp has been created to help change the mindset of women everywhere. Modern society often portrays women as weak and vulnerable, but history and examples like the Viking shield maidens prove otherwise. Women are capable of defending themselves and their loved ones. By unleashing the warrior within, we can create a world where those who seek to harm, will face formidable resistance. The change starts here!
Who this course is for:
- This course is ideal for women seeking an effective, instinctive approach to self-defence without the time and energy commitment of traditional martial arts or short-term courses. WarriorUp provides lifelong, ready-to-use skills in under 15 minutes a day.
- Ideal for those off to university, traveling, work late shifts or feel unsafe in their neighbourhood
- Those with previous self-defence and martial arts experience will find physical, tactical and mindset skills to compliment their existing training.
- For parents who want to improve the safety of their teens.
Instructor
- 5.0 Instructor Rating
- 28 Reviews
- 1,063 Students
- 1 Course
Bullied
The school bully had no idea what was about to rain down on him. He’d pinned me to the wall and his fist was raised…
You may have seen the legendary Shaolin Five Rings style in kung fu movies? I had the ‘Five Claires’ style at my disposal.
Growing up in the ’80s, ‘Claire’ was a popular girl’s name. I had five Claires in my class, and they all ran to my aid that day. ‘Don’t hit him; he’s only little!’ I heard one of them say, as another held back his fist to prevent him from striking my face.
I avoided a beating that day, but in all honesty, I was completely overpowered. I was only eight, but the experience changed my life. Unable to recruit the ‘Claires’ as lifelong bodyguards, I decided then and there that if anyone ever tried to physically dominate me again, I would be ready. Thus began my journey in martial arts.
Mission
40 years on, with 30 of those years teaching self-defence and martial arts, I was keen to share what I knew, helping people, women in particular, to progress from vulnerable to capable, defenceless to warrior.
Like me, you may not have the physical advantage, and the very thought of confrontation and violence sends a shiver down your spine, but I was fortunate enough to spend 7 years training at some of the top karate and aikido hombu (headquarter) dojos (training halls) in Japan, where I learnt that clear, concise and visual instruction was more effective than long explanations followed by confusing demonstrations.
Realisation
Until that moment, I too was trapped in a common Western theme of over-explanation. Japanese instructors are concise in their reasoning and prefer to visually demonstrate, allowing you to follow and imitate them easily in the lineup. This is why all my videos are shown from the perspective of the student behind the instructor so there is no confusion when copying the techniques. I also avoid long explanations, giving you 3-min micro reads if a more detailed explanation is required.
Another ‘awakening’ moment as an instructor came from my 15 years of teaching academic subjects at university in Tokyo and colleges in London. It became a frustration to learn just how little students remembered. I also struggled to retain information. We live in the age of mass information with busy lives and lower concentration spans, so it’s understandable. This is a serious problem if you are teaching someone to defend their life during violent confrontation, expecting them to remember and execute techniques learned years ago during a short self-defence course. Then there’s the conundrum of martial art students that fail to react instinctively because that part of the brain (cerebellum) has been overloaded with too many techniques which are mostly ineffective to modern attacks, suited only for movie stunts.
Falling short in subjects you commit to study might mean a lower exam result, a missed note in a musical performance, a dish gone wrong, miscommunication with a second language, but in self-defence, it could result in serious injury and worse, death. As instructors of self-defence, we must teach the best techniques, but more importantly, how to deliver that knowledge so it embeds into student’s muscle memory, giving them an effective and instinctive response to violence sooner rather than later.
Experience
After 40-years of martial arts training, including judo, karate, ju-jitsu, aikido, BJJ and kickboxing, my highest rank being a 3rd degree black belt in Shotokan karate awarded in Japan, I would take a simplified and well drilled technique over fancy moves for the purposes of movies and social media. Self-defence will only be effective if executed without hesitation, like catching a ball, riding a bike or driving a car. It’s why I’ve devoted the past 5-years to understanding muscle memory, visualisation and the psychology of fear.
With violence increasing across the world and with my own situation of becoming a father to a daughter, I’m determined to make these courses fully comprehensive and truly reflect modern world threats. As well as common physical threats, we also face issues like drink spiking, stalking, road rage and scams. Becoming victims of any of this is a direct threat to our physical and mental wellbeing. Having a PGCE in education has equipped me in understanding the importance of sequence lessons using a micro learning format that ensures a higher rate of retention and application.
I invite you to watch the promotional and explainer videos for each course and try the free lessons before deciding to join me on this transformational journey.
Please reach out if you have any questions.