Our Chief instructor’s skill and knowledge when it comes to teaching practical, modern Women’s Self Protection courses are undeniable and are proved again and again by those who employ him to run their self protection courses. The people who really understand women’s self protection issues, such as Women’s Outreach Programmes, Refuges, Mother & Baby housing projects and countless High Schools have all trusted Nick and the UK Women’s Self Protection Programmes to handle their personal protection courses and continue to both congratulate our approach and refer us to other organisations.
Sifu Martin began his training in the martial arts at the young the age of fourteen when he joined the the UK Wing Chun Kung Fu Association under the expert guidance of Master James Sinclair and has been training and teaching within this organisation ever since.
He is now a professional martial arts instructor and one the senior figures within the association where he holds the coveted title of Sifu (teacher/father) as well as being a recognised instructor by the V.T.A.A martial arts association in Hong Kong.
In his time training he has appeared in martial art magazines and television programmes as well as teaching and demonstrating his art all over the UK
and world wide including seminars in Los angles,
Hong Kong and even in the birth place of Kung Fu, mainland China.
The style of Martial Arts that Nick teaches and trains in (wing chun kuen) was originally
devised by a female buddhist nun who supposedly while watching a crane and a snake
fighting, took the ideas of movement that she saw to create a fighting style. She
taught this way of fighting to a young lady who successfully fought off the unwanted
attentions of a larger male suitor, the young lady’s name name was Yim Wing Chun
(perpetual spring time) and hence we have the name -
This is a nice story and the truth of it is quite likely to have been distorted through the years but regardless, a few facts that relate directly to women’s self protection remain clear:
The style is devised with the idea of the practitioner having far less physical strength than their opponent.
The techniques taught are simple and do not not require vast amounts of power to make them effective, with strikes towards the eyes, throat, neck and groin.
Although Sifu Martin was only fourteen years old when he began his training he did
not train with other children but rather went straight into a regular adults class
where all of his partners were far bigger, stronger and more aggressive than himself.
Because of this he found out first hand what it’s like to be simply over powered
and had to work hard to find ways to offset this “miss-
UK Women’s Self Protection Programmes 2006
