Recently I opted to take a little private tuition myself. I chose Krav Maga as it seemed a good form of self-defence that gets straight to the point and came highly recommended by a friend.
There was myself and two French brothers taking the class. The warm up was six minutes long but felt like 30 minutes of intense exercise with a few moves in there that reminded me how much I lack co-ordination. It is probably a well known fact that when a self-defence instructor asks for a volunteer that one should keep quiet but after a long day at work I wasn’t quite that sharp and put myself forward. From strangling the man to being on the floor in pain took less than a second. This was definitely something that I wanted to learn; to have the power to have someone on the floor in seconds would be a considerable advantage on the streets of London. We went through a number of techniques including disarming someone with a knife and finished with a ‘stress test’. We were instructed to box against pads for a couple of minutes whilst another person pushed you about and threw insults. Once the exhausting two minutes were over we span in a circle to make us dizzy as though inebriated and then were attacked by two people for several minutes.
On completion I shook hands with the French as a form of truce for any over-enthusiastic punches that were thrown and left feeling invincible. I cannot advocate enough the benefits of tuition, from that which I give to that which I receive it always gives a feeling of accomplishment and value. You can choose anything in the world and start learning from masters and enthusiasts.
On a business front things are looking up, google is beginning to recognize us and promote us up their ranks, our pages are receiving thousands more visits than ever before and we are looking strong for the ramp up to September.
We do however still have a few subjects without tutors in certain areas and will be advertising these on our facebook and twitter sites in order to fill those gaps.
Best wishes,
Ed
Director Tutorlink.org.uk Ltd
