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UK Update
PDR Principles Coach Zeb Glover has been busy providing courses for home care staff in conflict management / communication skills; PDR/breakaway & law and Control & Restraint. He also delivered lecture workshops for a complete year group of 120 school students (13yrs old) on Intuition; Fear Management; BYOBG; Profiling the Street Robber & Response Tactics.

Coach Glover’s weekly PDR class has been focusing on Live Action Response Drills which make the student compute a use of force decision while under the pressure of an actual assault. He also worked on Ballistic Micro-Fights which included defending against the combination attack of throat grab/Haymaker/Clinch/Waist Tackle.

Gerard O’ Dea recently launched his new website. Check it out at: www.dynamis-gym.com

Several “door men” have joined his program and have benefited from his realistic drills and skills. He also had a guest coach, an ex-pro Boxer; visit the gym to inject some ‘pure’ boxing technique and theory to the technical base at his school. Gerard also ran BMF sessions based on recent news stories of assaults and robberies.

One of these was the “Dwyer Scenario”, an intense life threatening situation involving firearms and multiple assailants. Check out the following slideshow for some great picture of the evolution.

Here is a testimonial from one of Gerard’s students:

“I am a 68 year old male, former Managing Director, who is reasonably fit but I had lost

 confidence in myself. I believed that a situation could arise when I would need to defendmyself, so via the internet I contacted Dynamis PDR and made contact with Gerard. We agreed to meet in Edinburgh for one to one training, and over the 12 weeks of training I have gone from being a total novice in the knowledge of self defence, to someone who is prepared to protect himself and family.

From the first visit to Gerard I have been trained to be aware of the procedures to defuse and self protect myself from the threat of attack on my person. I have gained skills and a belief in myself that should any future confrontation occur I should be able to defuse the conflict and protect myself.

I thoroughly recommend the principles and teaching I received from Gerard to anyone who needs to rebuild their confidence and regain their self respect.”

Singapore Update
Leon Koh conducted an anti bullying workshop for Kids in December and will begin a Kids’ PDR class by February. He is currently holding a PDR class for Nanyang Polytechnic Staff Association. Leon is also holding a TaeKwonDo + PDR class in a local public school.

Hong Kong Update
Trevor Wilcox has started a re-edit and re- issue of Coach Blauer’s PDR and SOS manuals. Keep checking the website for updates.

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