Teaching Self-Defence Test

This video takes instructors through a one hour class on how to teach the New Zealand Self Defence Syllabus. Master Mark Banicevich (Co-Author of the ITFNZ self defence handbook) runs though various drills and progressions and gives advice on how to effectively teach the syllabus to all grades.

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Teaching Self-Defence

This video takes instructors through a one hour class on how to teach the New Zealand Self Defence Syllabus. Master Mark Banicevich (Co-Author of the ITFNZ self defence handbook) runs though various drills and progressions and gives advice on how to effectively teach the syllabus to all grades.

Classic : NZ Self Defence Syllabus 2008

This video technology enables students to compare themselves to experts side by side so that they can see how to improve in visual detail.

The full video gives this kind of analysis so you can see the differences in technique and timing. Even if you are not Riana, you can still get tremendous benefit by comparing someone to an extremely skilled athlete at the same time.

Snippets of amazing old footage

DON’T FORGET TO WATCH No. 10 – Paul McPhail performs Juche forwards and backwards

For my 5th degree black belt grading in 1993 I thought it would be a cool idea to perform Juche Tul forwards then backwards for General Choi.

The plan failed miserably as I started the backwards part… I hadn’t even considered the possibility that General Choi would take offence to it. He turned his head and refused to watch. I figured… well… I may as well carry on now and struggled through to the end.

I passed the grading so I guess the General had forgiven me by the day the results were announced.

Here is the footage of the pattern at the grading.

Ground Self Defence

For the 1st to 2nd dan grading we have Ground Self Defence as the syllabus requirement, and this video shows the course where Mr Thompson introduced this to our instructors