Cardiff Legal Services Commision.

The Cardiff office held a Personal Safety event for staff on Monday 12^th November 2007.  The day consisted of two separate 60-minute sessions, which were intended to improve knowledge in a fun and light-hearted manner. 

A self-defence demonstration/discussion followed with Gareth Noble, a British Combat Association Instructor.  Those who thought they were attending a quiet discussion were in for a surprise (and they didn’t get to sit down that much either!)  Each demonstration was followed by a ‘practice’ session.  The group had a lot of fun practising their new found moves on each other, especially with the wooden ‘knives’ that were provided for good effect.  Several members of staff were brave enough to help Gareth with his demonstrations – quite a challenge when faced with an experienced ex-soldier who also dabbles in martial arts!  Mark found out to his peril that he was sat too close to the front as he was nominated to ‘help’ quite a lot more than others.  He did a sterling job and was quite an expert himself by the end of the session.  

Both sessions were extremely enjoyable and staff are more aware of how to keep themselves safe......especially if threatened with a wooden knife!! 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Gareth for an extremely enjoyable morning.  Everyone who attended the session was on a real high at the end and thoroughly enjoyed his style of teaching.  Staff felt comfortable to join in the activities and all said that they gained confidence by attending and actually taking part.

We would also like to wish you well, and would recommend your class to anyone, young or old.  In an ever-changing society such as ours your type of class would be of benefit to many people.

Once again sincere thanks.

Caroline

1Hour, Self Defence Course

Monday 18^th Feb, 2008.

Methodist Church hall, Melbourne Rd,

Llanishen, Cardiff.

All proceeds to Llanishen rugby club.

Ladies Only

 Self Defence Course

Saturday 24^th February 2007

A defence against a strangle from the rear.

 MUMS MATTERS

We asked Gareth to do a session on self defence for us at Mums Matters. We are a group of Mums who meet once a week to do a variety of activities to enhance our health and well being. We didn’t know what to expect from the session, but we wanted to learn some basic self defence moves. The session was brilliant; Gareth was very professional and showed us lots of moves. It was quite physical and we didn’t sit down once! Gareth made the session fun but also showed us some good ways of how to defend your self from lots of different types of attack. It was very useful to everyone involved and gave the women the confidence to defend themselves if they had to. The whole group enjoyed the session and the feedback was very positive, they all want Gareth back to learn some more! I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Gareth.

Lynne (Chair Mums Matters)

SEMINAR - MAY 10th 2008

The Dojo, Cardiff Central Youth Club,Ocean Park, Ocean Way, Cardiff,CF245HF,S.Wales

For the first time ever in the UK, Ste`phane Denis, the founder and technical director of IMADS Krav Maga, will be in the UK to hold a seminar, in partnership with kontaktkombat Krav Maga, the seminar is open to all, and is gauranteed to be an excellent opportunity to train with, and learn from this very experienced instructor, Ste`phane does`nt just talk the talk, he is a Belgium Army Instructor teaching Krav Maga on a daily basis to the elite forces.