Teen Knife Attacks In Melbourne

I can’t express just how important knife defence training is and this is why we start learning those skills at 11. Also character development life skills when they’re younger it all combines to together to help them be ...

1. More likely to be able to defend themselves
2. Less likely to commit these type of violent crimes
3. The Character Development training means they possibly won’t find themselves in this situation in the first place
   
   

The most important life skill for kids is swimming then once they can swim the second most important has to be martial arts, especially Teen Martial Arts it’s much more important than soccer, football, gymnastics and all the other activities combined. Their life may actually depend on it someday and its not something you can learn once a week for a few months.

Every year parents pull their kids out of martial arts to play soccer, or football, I have to admit inside I think what the hell are you doing. Have you forgotten what it's like when you're 15 to 25 and going to parties, pubs or out clubbing etc and that was 20 years ago.

One morning in Preston we woke up to police tape outside our house and apparently there had been a running knife fight and three teens had been stabbed in our street while we slept. They had gone to a party uninvited and a fight had broken out.

We've had more than half a dozen students disarm knife attackers in real life and none have been cut because we train for urban defence and not against knife welding experts. Untrained people use knives in a completely different way.

Think back to the attacks in Sydney shopping centers or around Melbourne streets over the last few years. What the footage looked like and it wasn't someone with 20 years of advanced knife skills doing the damage.

It was untrained and unskilled people.

It takes a lot of practice over many years and its a skill set that that needs to be regularly studied. We spend three months each year in the adults martial arts classes only doing knife defence training.

We train specifically for this type of situation.

Here are a few weapons confiscated by a friend that does security, close personal protection and body guarding for business men and celebrities in Melbourne.  He has trained extensively in the same style of Japanese Jujutsu we study here at GMA .
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This is what is around, this is what your child and teen may have do deal with sometime in the future.

Make sure they're ready