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Urban Combatives West provides high quality self-defence and combatives training in the Birmingham and West Midlands area.

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Our aim at Urban Combatives is to provide simple and efficient self protection training to all regardless of age, gender, experience and occupation.

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We focus on giving students two things - Confidence and Ability.

Having confidence will make you less identifiable as a soft target and in turn less likely to be selected as a victim.

Develop the ability to deal with a variety of situations by simply using avoidance measures, talking down verbally confrontational situations right through to handling a subject physically should it be necessary. 

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You will learn how to deal with many violent situations  especially those involving multiple assailants and weapons.

Our training methods utilise simulation/scenario drills set under replicated street conditions to ensure the skills learnt are brought to bear during a street assault.

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UC is about Self Protection NOT Self Defence.

The BEST solution is not to be there in the first place. We emphasise the primary use, where possible, of non-physical 'Soft Skills' (Personal Security measures) such as avoidance, verbal de-escalation.

If this is not possible then we rely upon a small collection of physical 'Hard Skills' proven to be easy to learn, recall and implement under the effects of combat stress (Fear, Adrenaline, Pain, Fatigue and Disorientation). 

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UC deals with the extreme end of the violence scale and so addresses a psychological platform, the Combative Mindset, you need to operate from in order to prevail. Something overlooked by the majority of Martial Arts and Reality Based Self Defence.

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UCW is the only school licensed to teach Lee Morrison's original Urban Combatives in the West Midlands area.