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Testimonial:

"About 2 years ago I was robbed at knifepoint and decided to take up a martial art. I kind of thought they were all the same so I used to go to a karate class that was held in a church hall nearby.

It was all very good and the instructor was great but somehow it seemed a million miles away from what I'd experienced in real life. A Girlfriend of mine had started to go along to a SEPS class and convinced me to go with here. I basically thought it'd just be like my Karate class

During the class, the instructor told me about how we think and act under stress and taught us some stress control techniques and also the correct way to think but the best bit was that he put on a big protective suit and acted out different situations and scenarios. Brilliant!

Sue Dennis
(London)

Self Defense & Scenario Based Training

There is nothing new about scenario based training: armies and law enforcement agencies have been doing it for years. Many of us in SEPS first got our taste of it doing CQB (Close Quarter Battle) training with the Israelis, for who the recreation of ‘live’ incidents is a staple part of the way they work.

Making things as realistic as possible should be the aim of any self-defence program.

Scenario based training is intended to give the individual a taste of the stress and fear that they would experience in a real life encounter and help them develop the ability to assess risks and make decisions whilst in this heightened emotional state.

By giving aggressor(s) and bystanders in the scenario appropriate and limited roles with set boundaries within which they must work a student can ‘test’ themselves in a safe and controlled manner.

Because SEPS is situation based, we play around with many of the variables that are present in a situation e.g. we train in different locations, we change the relationship a target/victim has with their aggressor (stranger, family member, friend etc) and put students with third parties they may have a responsibility to protect or whose opinion they value etcetera, etcetera.

Scenario based training in SEPS is not simply an opportunity to practice the ability to physically defend oneself (we have other drills and more effective methods to do this) but rather a way to educate them as to choosing and acting upon the most realistic and effective response.

Redman Training

There are times when we will ‘dress up’ in Redman protective suits and give the student the opportunity to have some of the shackles of a physical confrontation released but this shouldn’t miss the aim of real scenario based training i.e. to hone decision making under stress.