Another escapade below from one of our students, Paul Golding, who inadvertently found himself involved in an incident while at a friends leaving do in a bar in Shoreditch, London. For a change it involved some control and restraint rather than self defense but resulted in the aapprehension of a bag thief and the return of property to the rightful owners. A great job by Paul, perfect execution in a real, live environment. Well done mate, you train hard - it is great to watch as an instructor and it paid off. Good stuff!
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“I was in the smoking area (not myself, I had two nicotene patches on and a nicotene lozenge on the go!) with a buddy of mine who’s leaving drink it was, when there was a scuffle in front of us where a couple of doormen were trying to get hold of a guy who clearly did not want to be aprehended and was flailing around, shoving them away. The altercation came our way and the guy was pushed into me, I guess I could have moved away but it was all getting very messy so remembering the part you taught me about approaching ‘under the radar’ I kept low and snaked my right hand under his chin and round to my left bicep clamping my left hand round the back of his head, it seemed to work as he went very quiet! I then moved him out of the door out of the bar and into the waiting arms of the other door staff.

The guys congratulated me and told me that two girls had seen him stealing bags from the bar, it later turned out that one of them belonged to my mate’s friend (the one who I had been outside with passively smoking) he had her bag plus another and a purse which were retrieved from the sticky fingered monkey!

Got to be honest,as much as it was a good result, and I was quite pumped after the incident I had my missus there and some close buddies so thought it best to leave shortly after in case of follow up scenario’s….paranoid? who knows? but better to be safe than sorry!

So thanks Aasim, good training brah, really changes your programming to situations!

Take care, and see you in a few weeks”