Evolve Self Defence

⭐️ 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. 💪👊

⚠️Busy Junior classes this this week covering the dangers of knifes. 🔪

We learnt, through playing games, the danger of knifes, avoidance and getting to a safe place when the knife was spotted. We started off hiding the knife under objects around the room where they had to give as much detail as they can remember of where it was located and what the knife looked like. Then eventually building up through the lesson to someone coming in the room with a knife. 🥷

Was great to see the quick reaction of the students with drawing attention of the danger to others using their voice and running away from the danger to a safe place. 💪🏃‍♂️

We could not be more proud of how they all reacted.

⭐️ Student of the Month @ Bitterne Park Secondary School ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our students. Both have impressed us with their great attitude to training. Both consistently pushing themselves and improving each session. 👏👏

⭐️ Student Of The Month @ Oasis Academy Mayfield ⭐️

Please join us in congratulating our student of the month. This one has impressed us this month with how his attitude, respect and being polite to others has changed so much from the when he first started to where he is now. He is also been awesome in remembering everything we have taught in class and being able to demonstrate what he has learnt in front of the whole class too. 👏👏

🎄🎅 Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year🎅🎄

Wishing all our awesome students, parents/guardians and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Thank you all for your continued support and we hope everyone stays fit and well during the Christmas period and that you all have a happy prosperous 2022. 👊💪