Aimee and I did a demo for the guides in Debenham, at the Sir Robert Hitcham Primary School with around 40 guides. This involved us demoing self defence as part of ‘The suffragettes’ and ‘The Centenary Year of Senior Section Guides.’ An event they are running with some other participants. We started with Aimee basically beating the … Read moreSelf defence demo for the Guides March 10th 2016
Aimee and I were honoured to have Sensei Stephen Chan visit us and grade our students. We also had sensei and students from Northampton come and visit us for the event. We had a great 4 hour session with the children doing their gradings in the first 2 hours. Aimee and I are really proud of … Read moreStephen Chan OBE karate seminar February 21st 2016
We had a great time with the ladies from WiRE Women in Rural Enterprise (South Suffolk) They had this to say about us ‘A big thank you to Scott and Aimee Fairburn from ASF for a fabulous demonstration this evening – giving us an excellent introduction to self defence and being confident about what is reasonable action … Read moreWiRE self defence demo, 16th February 2016
January 15th-17th 2016 Aimee and I completed our FAST defence instructor training, One of our other team members was Patrick and our Daughter Aiki came along for the ride. We got to meet Bill Kipp founder of Fast and Andras who is the UK and soon to be Europe lead instructor. See picture below. It … Read moreFAST instructor training
You will now see the following logo on some ASF events in the future. These events are to raise funds for martial art projects in Africa to help set up venues, cover running costs, but also where possible to get more females into martial arts. This as I have said before is Aimee and my way … Read moreAfrican Fundraising details
We held a club grading with Sensei Mark Caddy and everyone did very well – we now have five new red belts! Unfortunately, the demo for Langer School did not happen as they had some kind of mix up, we will, though, be doing more soon. Plus if you would like us to visit you … Read moreJuly 2015
Everyone had a great day and did very well on the course. We also had a couple of young students for the first time. Feedback was positive which is also good. Please remember that you are welcome back to do the course again for free spaces permitting.The highlight on the course was the new predator … Read moreSelf Defence course April 19th
So we have had a few things going on at the end of January. We are proud to have gotten involved with the national This Girl Can campaign that is currently featuring on TV and is all about getting more ladies involved in sports and activities. We then had Sensei Mark Caddy down on … Read moreSeminar, Grading and This Girl Can.
We have just had a great time in Birmingham picking up our new predator armour. We can’t thank Wayne and Graham from FAST Defence enough for helping us to fit the armour properly and thoroughly going through all safety measures on how to use it. We went through various drills and fight scenarios with me in the … Read moreNew Predator Armour
In December Danny Shaw came and did a photo shoot for ASF. He is so busy but was able to provide us with some fantastic shots and a couple of extra family ones. We can’t thank him enough for all the hard work.