New article added to www.globalkick.com

Here’s a link to the feature Tactical Striking. It looks at Systema’s approach to striking from a  few interesting angles.

http://www.globalkick.com/tactical%20striking.html

Safety Response….self protection manual now available online!

Safety Response The Essential Guide to your Personal Safety has now been relaunched as an E Book.  This informative manual addresses subjects  such as awareness and aggression disengagement. It covers avoidance, the different forms of hostility including less discussed forms such as spatial aggression and distance based aggression.  It also looks at some of the physical tactics that predatory aggressors use such as the various grabs, use of projectiles, intimidation and set ups. Plus there are numerous insights into concepts  that people can use to avoid trouble such as: tactical dialogue, reading the aggression triggers and reserved tactics. These insights are very useful for both men and women interested  in self defence and awareness training.

Safety Response The Essential Guide to your Personal Safety (click here for more info about the manual)

Here what others have to say about Safety Response….

For a woman, Aran’s “Safety Response Manual” is an enlightening read, even when working in a professional field of security.

AF, Customs Border Protection Officer, US Homeland Security

Aran’s book Safety Response….conveys many of the principles used in Systema and I would recommend it to anyone serious about getting off on the right foot in real-life self defense training.”

R Datson, aviation professional, former fighter pilot and electronic warfare specialist

Although I am now im my 60s I have over 40 years security experience covering all aspects of policing and intelligence work at Senior Executive level with the Armed Forces and latterly as a Security Consultant that involves teaching Conflict Management Techniques to students. I would highly recommend The Safety Response Manaual written by Aran Dharmeratnam which is based on the Systemic Martial Arts system and encapsulates a host of scenarios involving our awareness and response to conflict situations that we may face in society today. The Manual increases our awareness and understanding of the different forms we may encounter, how to recognise,avoid and react effectively to deal with potential high risk situations.

M Egglestone, conflict management trainer

More info on the manual available here:

http://www.globalkick.com/safetyresponse.html

By the Breath new interview in Combat

Uk martial arts magazine Combat contains a new interview with Aran Dharmeratnam.  In this interview he talks about teaching the Russian martial art Systema, the art’s breath work, and some of the tactics he covers in his training sessions. Its titled By the Breath and appears in the October 2009 issue of Combat.