ABOUT ME I have been studying martial arts for over twenty years now and am an experienced practitioner at black belt level. I have trained with some of the top instructors in my home country and Japan. I’ve trained in pretty much all of the most popular, and some not so popular, arts. I also train in self-defence classes with lots of practitioners from various backgrounds including security industries. In these classes, we go through real-life situations that have happened. We focus on replicating the things that work, not necessarily those moves which are considered "correct". I myself have over twelve years’ experience of campus security; over the years dealing with big gangs of trespassers, drunks, burglars, drug addicts/dealers, vandals, arsonists and just unhappy aggressive people. The best I feel is when I am confronted with a situation, let’s say a group of aggressive people on my own, and am able to influence them without it turning physical. This I have learnt to do over many years using body language and psychology, some of which you will learn in this book.