Evolve Self Defence

Making the most of the sunshine with our Teen warriors. ☀️😎

It’s an important part of training to train outside dealing with uneven, slippery surfaces, obstacles and other outside elements. It helps bridge the gap between the difference in training and reality. 💪👊

⭐️ Student Of The Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our Students Of the Month 👏👏

These two warriors have made awesome progress in class and also have improved their confidence with contributing to some great questions and answers in our sessions. 👊💪

⭐️ Student Of The Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our Students Of the Month Juniors. 👏👏

These two warriors deserve the recognition for always giving it their all and making great improvements each session. The difference from where they started and where they are now has been great to see. 👊💪

…and thats a wrap! 👍

We had the honour of being invited to run a 6 week Self Defence program for year 10’s and year 11’s at a school as part of their options for there extra curriculum activity.

Over the 6 weeks we covered the Self Defence/ Self Protection game plan, working of pre-threat cues and various ways to respond, dealing with being gabbed and pushed against the wall to dealing with knife attacks and using common objects to be counter offensive. 💪👊

Was a great 6 weeks and we’re really pleased with the students response and how they took on board what was taught.

⭐️ Student Of The Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our Students Of the Month Juniors. 👏👏

Each month it’s getting harder and harder to choose from all our Junior warriors due to them all making big improvements in our sessions. But these two stood out this month by making great giving great responses to answering questions and making improvements in their mindset with the never give up mentality we strive for in our sessions. 👊💪

We would like to wish all our students, parents, guardians and supporters a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. 🎅🎄🎁

Thank you all for all your support and making it the great club that it is. We are so proud of all our students and love seeing how far they have come and what they have achieved. We wish you all the success for 2023. 🥳🎉

🤩 Students of the Year 🤩

Please join us in congratulating these students who were awarded Student of the Year. 👏

At Evolve Self Defence we want all our students to strive to achieve the following attributes:

⭐️ Being respectful to all
⭐️ Work hard ethic
⭐️ Never give up mentality
⭐️ Asking good questions
⭐️ Giving good answers
⭐️ Support fellow students who need help

This year has been extremely tough to choose who gets the title as so many represent what we ask for in class but these students truly deserve these awards. We are all so proud of all of our students. 🙏

⭐️ Student Of The Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our Students Of the Month. 👏👏

These three warriors have been making great progress in class and can can see a huge difference from when they first started from where they are now. We are looking forward to see how they progress further in the future. 👊💪

Another great week of training across Juniors and Teens. 💪👊

This week we covered using common objects to use as a shield/barrier to protect ourselves from various attacks. The samples we have here we used rucksacks and chairs to protect ourselves and get to our escape safely. 🎒🪑

⭐️ Student Of The Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our Students Of the Month. 👏👏

These three warriors have been making great progress in class and can can see a huge difference from when they first started from where they are now. In our students we always look for respect and being polite to others and these students are definitely students to look up to. 👊💪

Loved receiving this card from one of my private students who I have been training for a while. ❤️

It’s great to be able to build someone’s confidence and see the difference from where they first started their self protection journey to where they are now.

This week we had the privilege to be invited to 1st Swanmore Scout group to provide our Introduction to Self Defence Workshop.

We discussed the subjects of avoidance and situational control then we went into some basic striking and options to deal with an aggressive subject.

They were an awesome group who gave it there all with great enthusiasm. They were a pleasure to teach and smashed the summary drill at the end. 💪👊

Our Junior warriors have been smashing our lessons the past couple of weeks and we could not be more prouder of them all.

We have been covering our Self Protection game plan with looking at situational control and de-escalation using our voices to then working on our striking skills and improving our striking power! 👊💪

⭐️ Student Of The Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our Students Of the Month. 👏👏

These three warriors have not only made great progress in our sessions, but we have seen their confidence grown massively from being shy at the beginning of joining us to see them getting stuck in now. Also, for our Teen warrior who has made the progression from moving from our Junior class to our Teen class and smashing it in our sessions. 👊💪

Loved receiving this card from a parent of 2 Teens I have been privately training before they headed to university. 🙏

They were both awesome and really got stuck into their training. I wish them all the best for the future and am glad I’m that they feel more confident when out and about now.

⭐️ Student Of The Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our Students Of the Month. 👏👏

All these warriors have been making great progress in the session and have been working really hard to improve on what they have learnt, which has been recognised in all our sessions from both instructors and by other students. 👏👏

Special mention to another one of our Teen Student of the Month who has been with us from the beginning and is taking more of a Senior role in the classes when it comes to demonstrating what we are looking for in our sessions. 👊💪

⭐️ Student Of The Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our Students Of the Month. 👏👏

Both have been working extremely hard in our sessions and have been great students to look up to. Also, it’s been lovely to see them help out and encouraging other students when they’ve needed help. 👏👏

Special mention to our Teen Student of the Month who has been with us from the beginning and is taking more of a Senior role in the classes when it comes to demonstrating what we are looking for in our sessions. 👊💪

Feeling very grateful for the recent reviews of the private 1 to 1’s we have been running.

In our private sessions we teach all ages and this is some of the recent feedback from some of the adults that are absolutely smashing it and given it a 100%.

If you are interested in any private sessions please do not hesitate to contact us. 👊💪

We are feeling proud of all our Junior and Teens students this week turning up and being awesome in our sessions in this very hot heat. 🥵

It’s been really great to see how everyone is progressing and being able to answer all the questions with confidence we ask of them. 💪👊

⭐️ Students of the Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our students of the Month. 👏

All these warriors always have shown great improvement in class and have definitely stepped up in their approach to training. We always make sure we give praise to all our students who show continuous improvement so this award is very much deserved. 👏

This week during the Junior classes we are covering the subject of dealing with being approached by adults and then being grabbed.

We started off talking about avoidance and awareness (The most important part of Self Defence/Protection) and covering how an adult may approach the child with various questions trying to take them to a secondary location, to then it escalating to being grabbed and how to deal with it. As you can see from photos below all the Junior warriors smashed it and did awesome as usual. 👊💪

⭐️ Students of the Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our students of the Month. 👏

Both warriors always have great attitudes to training, always respectful, works hard and never gives up in anything they do. The award is very much deserved. 👏

👏Proud Instructor Moment👏

We always love hearing from our students and proud parents where they have had to deal with a problematic situation and come out the other side safely without harm.

Yesterday we had another example of this when one of our students proudly told us how they used what they have learnt in class to successfully deal with a bully who was trying to intimidate and harm them. 💪

This is why we are passionate about what we teach and love what we do. We could not be more proud of all our students and how hard they work in class. ❤️

📣 Announcement from Head Instructor Darren 📣

At Evolve Self Defence we always strive to provide the best self protection sessions for our students. We are a great believer in continuous growth, improvement and always being a student!

This weekend, I successfully completed a Woman focused Combative Instructor course under Urban Combatives Founder Lee Morrison. This was a great course and insight into dealing with specific threats and issues that are specific to woman and how to approach with dealing with these threats.

Awesome sessions this week in our Juniors and Teens class working on the principle of Cover-Crash-Counter. We worked on being pre-emptive against an aggressive subject, then we worked on being reactive against an aggressive subject.

We also worked on some determination drills and on the mindset of keep pushing and never giving up. All our warriors did awesome as usual and some even surprised theirselves on what they achieved! 👊💪

🙏 Lovely Review From The Guides 🙏

This week we had the privilege to be invited back to teach the Guides one of our workshops. We had so much fun and are thankful for the lovely review.

“This is our second session with Darren and his team, i run the 1st Bitterne Park Guides, and we asked Darren to run an introduction to self defence.
At first the girls were nervous, but Darren and Dan soon relaxed them, getting them into doing all the self defence moves.
Sixteen girls aged between 10 and 14 are a challenge to keep focused, but Darren managd this effortlessly.
The girls engaged in the activity, became competitive and throughly enjoyed the session.
the hour and a half disappeared in a wink of the eye.
One of the most rewarding parts from a guiders point of view was the enjoyment on Darren and Dans faces as the girls practiced their moves on them.
Would definitely recommend them, and will be getting them to do sessions with us again.

Thank you so much Darren and Dan”

⭐️ Student of the Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our young warriors for achieving Student of the Month. We are loving seeing the continuous improvement and commitment they give to each session. All always giving it a 💯% and always doing it with a smile on their face. 👏👏

⭐️ Student of the Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our young warriors for achieving Student of the Month. They have shown continuous improvement, in not just their training, but also in confidence and showing great attitude in our sessions. 👏👏

📣 Announcement from Head Instructor Darren 📣

Yesterday has been one of my most proudest achievements so far in my Self Protection journey. Yesterday I achieved my goal of becoming an Urban Combatives Full Instructor.

I’ve been very fortunate to train with Lee Morrison (Founder of Urban Combatives) for a while now. Lee is well recognised and well thought of in Martial Arts/Self Defence/Self Protection. I’ve learnt so much from Lee and he has changed the way I approach self protection and the way I teach.

I was lucky enough to be accepted on the Urban Combatives Instructor course which has ran for a long 6 months. We started off with 27 participants and only 12 of us was successful. It’s been both physically and mentally challenging and has definitely pushed me to my limits and beyond. Anyone who has ever seen the final instructor stress test knows how extremely tough it is! Believe me it was definitely one of the toughest things I’ve ever done!

I’m excited for what I have learned to start introducing into my classes and what the future brings to Evolve. We are always learning, adapting and evolving and improving what we teach.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout. 🙏

⭐️ Students of the Month ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating these warriors on getting student of the month. 👏

Each one has definitely stepped up their training and have shown great improvement! We are also loving seeing their confidence grow each session. 👊💪

👊Dealing with grabs👊

This week in the Juniors we will be covering dealing with various grabs. We always start the class with avoidance, then we progress from dealing from unwanted grabs from children to dealing with dangerous grabs from adults.

These mini warriors from Oasis Hub: East Southampton smashed the lesson. 💪👊