Every new year it’s the same story. “This year will be different” you say, “I’m going to stick to it this year!”. Although every year most people’s new year resolutions are no longer in place by March, if they actually make it past the end of January. The challenge for all people is that we are fundamentally creatures of habit, most of us live and exist in set routines and patterns of behaviour. We do this because it is comfortable, it’s familiar and we know where we are and

There has been a video recently doing the rounds on social media. Whilst it was originally posted in May 17, it has become the source of recent dissatisfaction for several martial art instructors and coaches. The video concerns potential personal defence techniques one could use to counter a rear strangle hold and a potential strategy for countering being held on the ground. The instructor providing the information is a self confessed “self defence expert” and the video has b