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What is “SafeGuard”? |
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Under Construction |
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SafeGuard was designed in 1992 when Strathclyde Police approached us and asked us to prepare a self defence curriculum designed to be taught to civilian females for a personal safety course they were putting together. They also used ABS Mechanics to offer basic vehicle maintenance (checking fluid levels and changing a wheel etc.) Along with their own input, we provided practical personal protection training for each group who came to the course. We talked about managing risks, situation management, common myths about self defence and made sure that when the women left the course, they were educated and more prepared to take realistic measures to reduce their risks and handle themselves when provoked.
While we were teaching in the police gym, many off duty officers were training on fitness equipment adjacent to the course and approached us for training for themselves. That’s how it started to get more developed. We consulted with many of the police officers we trained to provide them with an effective combat system that wouldn’t cost them their job.
We were also approached by many of the women that attended the course for classes and personal training. We were asked to give them something that would work at work and home, so we started developing training for Counter Staff on shops and the local authority, for paramedics and ambulance crews, for nurses and doctors both in wards and on house calls. (Most didn’t feel threatened in a GP’s practise but things escalated quickly in people’s homes and on hospital wards) Again, we needed to provide something that was effective for personal protection and control and restraint, but wasn’t going to get them fired for using it.
We got more enquiries from organisations to ask if we had a course for them, and the official SafeGuard curriculum was born. We now teach SafeGuard to civilians in class format rather than just courses to allow people to train to a black belt standard of combat capability but also with a very grounded and secure knowledge of weaponry disarming. (The weapons we teach civilians, police, close protection and ambulance & Fire crews are: fist bars/batons (Kubotan), short sticks and bars (poles up to 40”), long sticks (4-5ft), single and double edged knives, short swords, long swords, punch daggers, nunchakku, wire strips and ropes, morning star variants (brick in a sock etc) and pistols. (with police and emergency services ID we also teach weapon recovery (recovering your baton, CS, etc.) from an aggressor.
The system is property of Street Safe Exec-Protect and if you wish more information on the classes and courses, please contact us, but due to having elements of SafeGuard plagiarised and poorly taught by others, we no longer put photos, course components or video in public view.
We will however shortly be adding testimonials. |
