Street Safe is run by Kyle Hargreaves and Ian Arbon, both fully qualified and insured martial arts instructors.

Today’s world can be a very intimidating and often violent place. We often hear on the news about fatalities linked to knife crime, especially in built up urban areas and cities.

Even in our areas which we would consider to be a fairly quiet and pleasant place and one of the nicer parts of Essex, there have been acts of violence. Both Ian and Kyle have been attacked, Kyle was within 10 minutes of his own doorstep in Billericay. Fortunately for him, he could handle the situation and was ok coming off a lot better than the two guys who attacked him, but there are many people out there who aren’t quite so lucky.

We have been training in martial arts for most of our lives, with Ian being a full time instructor and the head of his own association, and Kyle being a professional coach in more than one style of martial art. We have a combined experience of nearly 40 years of martial arts training and 9 dan gradings between us, training with some of the U.K’s top instructors. But we know from our own experience and study that there is a difference between training for a black belt and training for survival.

The problem with most martial arts when it comes to self defence is that they don’t really teach you how to deal with real violence and the techniques and striking points are often too complex to remember in a real fight situation. This isn’t to say that they don’t work, but they take years and years of training to be able to start becoming adept enough to make them work.

With this in mind, we started to think about how we could teach people a simple but highly effective method of self defence that would be safe to practice, easy to apply and would put a potentially extremely violent person down quickly, doesn’t require the person to be particularly fit and takes physical strength out of the equation.

We called on our experience of Ju Jitsu, Kung Fu, Chinese and Thai Boxing, Karate and other arts that we have trained in over the years, working together and with our students (who have always been happy to stick a spanner in the works and point out things we’ve overlooked) until finally, after lots of research in to other self defence systems and experimenting we found our solution… our S.T.R.I.K.E principles.

Click here to learn more about the S.T.R.I.K.E principles.

We run self defence courses throughout the Essex area. Mainly based in Brentwood and Billericay, can be available to run private courses in Chelmsford, Basildon, Wickford, Rayleigh, Southend and Romford. To learn more check out our courses page.