System SELF-DEFENSE 1
Training course for beginners and moderately advanced practitioners
Systematical and comprehensible teaching in System SELF-DEFENSE 1 is customised for beginners and people with no previous self-defense or martial arts experience. Teaching is logically divided into thematic units of practise which include selected simple and functional self-defense principles against most common threatening situations and types of attacks. The course consists of 15 –20 lessons of technical self-defense and includes an important workshop „Psychology in self-defense“.. The system of teaching thus includes both: the „technical self-defense“ and the very important part of „psychology“. Trainings are suitable for men and women.
Overall, this course provides a valuable basis and could be seen also as a very good threshold experience into further martial arts or self-defense training.
Course SELF-DEFENSE 1, Bratislava
Autumn course: October - November - December 2024

SELF-DEFENSE 1:
Autumn courses 2024, Bratislava
Course duration: 21. October – 20. November 2024 (part
1)
This is bilingual course in English and Slovak language
Chief instructor: Michal Horňáček (read more)
TIME OPTION A:
Monday: 17.00 – 18.30
Wednesday: 17.00 – 18.30
TIME OPTION B:
Monday: 18.30 – 20.00
Wednesday: 18.30 – 20.00
Venue: Bratislava – centre, Svoradova street 13
Training: 10 lessons
Price: 120,00 €
Training course content:
A. Body and movement:
- Training of the key body movement principles
- Body postures and footwork in self-defense
- Strength training based on the body compactness (the „whole body power principle“)
- Body anatomy in self-defense (basics)
- Space awareness in self-defense: Training work with space, angles & orientation
- Real self-defense and body constitution (of the self vs. attacker)
B. Self-defense and technical drill:
- Defense against grips and holdings from the „front side“
- Defense against punches (direct & side)
- Block techniques and principles of cover
- Counter & elimination techniques in self-defense
- Defense using pressing on selected sensitive and painful body parts
- Daily use objects for self-defense (keys, pen ..)
Notes:
- This course will be guided in Slovak + English language
- You have to sign up in advance via the registration form (reservation of a place in course due to limited capacity)
- On your first lesson you can test the system and the method of teaching. After your first lesson you can decide to sign up for the whole self-defense course
- Bonus: Participants of the SELF-DEFENSE 1 course have a 10,00 € discount on the Psychological self-defense training: Block no. 1 – Psychology and behavior in self-defense: Pre-conflict phase – „How to read conflict and threating situations“

System SELF-DEFENSE 1:
Training course for beginners
Fundamentals:
- Training of the key body movement principles in self-defense
- Working with space, angles & orientation
- Body postures in self-defense
- Body anatomy in self-defense (basics)
Self-defense:
- Defense against grips and holdings from the „front side“
- Defense against punches (direct & side)
- Defense against grips from the „back side“
- Defense against and chokes (elimination and liberation)
- Usage of the blocks and counter techniques in self-defense
- Defense using pressing on selected sensitive and painful body parts
- Use of the items of daily use in self-defense
- Real self-defense and body constitution (of the self vs. attacker)

Psychology in self-defense:
Conflict prevention and resolution (workshop)
Essential Know – How:
- Analysis of the problem situation
- Subconscious mechanisms and mental adjustments
- Stress reaction: Psychology and physiology
- Stress management & self-regulation: how to regulate the stress reaction in tense situations: Theory + Practice
- Connection: Body – Breath – Mind
- Emotions: „A good servant, bad master“
- Rational thinking vs. instinct and intuition
Conflict prevention & conflict resolution:
- Tactical behaviour (behavioral principles) in problem situations: „Body language“, communication and negotiation
- Strategies for conflict resolution & conflict de-escalation
- Inevitable use of physical self-defense versus an effort of „non-conflictful solution of the problem situation“
- Know-how application in the model situations
Where we train:
Bratislava - town centre, Svoradova street no. 13









Training organizer reserves the right to exclude from training and
workshops individuals in which they are seen and manifested:
signs of an abuse of the learned combat skills, signs of override behavior over
the others, signs of aggressive behavior, signs of non-controlled anger, signs
of abuse of the learned skills to the intentional harm to other trainees or to
people out of the training and trainees who repeatedly don´t pay attention to
instructions given by the coach and thus increasing a risk of injury to self or
to others.
Self-defense and combat skills are taught within the frame of one´s own protection & prevention, the protection of others, correspondingly also within the scope of protection of the material goods and the property and most of all within the frame of humanism.