Functional Fitness and Self-Protection Training
First established in 2006, Dynamis Gym is focussed on helping people to do the extraordinary, by thriving in conflict situations.
Led by professional coaches with a learner-focussed approach, we teach across all three dimensions of personal safety: emotional, psychological and physical.
In weekly classes and regular seminars, our team explores the 'universal human phobia' of interpersonal conflict. We teach practical self-protection tactics in an atmosphere focussed on learning, where people of all kinds can improve their confidence-in-conflict and enhance their functional fitness to meet personal safety challenges.
Times:
Wednesdays 7pm (adults)
Saturdays 11am (juniors)
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Experiences at Dynamis Gym...
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You have already inspired me to search out more information.
Definitely an excellent class on Saturday, I felt very privileged to be part of it. Breaking down how your spirit-mind-body reacts to an attack really appeals to me. Although there were a lot of new ideas to think about it all makes absolute sense and it all came back to quite simple outcome, a tactic that is effective, easy to learn and worked for me.
To understand how 'real' attacks occur and to drill them to be better prepared is worth doing.
Something I need to give myself is the permission to fight back - that first directive you spoke about.
It may take a second class to get over the giggles and feeling daft, knowing now what attitude to go into the training with to get the most out of it. Even covering the exactly the same things you showed us on Saturday, I'm sure there would be something new to pick up. Can't wait for more!
Emily
Environmental Scientist
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I am a 68 year old male, former Managing Director, who is reasonably fit but I had lost confidence in myself.
I believed that a situation could arise when I would need to defend myself, so via the internet I contacted Dynamis Gym and made contact with Gerard.
Over the 12 weeks of training I have gone from being a total novice in the knowledge of self defence, to someone who is prepared to protect himself and family.
From the first visit to Gerard I have been trained to be aware of the procedures to defuse and self protect myself from the threat of attack on my person.
I have gained skills and a belief in myself that should any future confrontation occur I should be able to defuse the conflict and protect myself.
I thoroughly recommend the principles and teaching I received from Gerard to anyone who needs to rebuild their confidence and regain their self respect.
John
Retired Managing Director
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I knew I was motivated to train at Dynamis Gym on my very first lesson. The mixture of fitness training, self-defence, and partner based drills is really enjoyable and after training at the Dynamis Gym for a few months I already feel much fitter and more confident.
The Dynamis Gym attracts a wide range of people, from beginners interested in improving their fitness and in modern, practicable self-defence training, to experienced practitioners from a variety of martial arts backgrounds. Everyone seems to get something from the training.
One of the outstanding features of Dynamis Gym is the high level of instruction. The instructor is highly qualified and also has a real ability to teach. I am constantly amazed at the variety of self-defence scenarios that are used, the effectiveness of the responses taught, and the ability of the instructor to give advice and to motivate people to train hard.
My advice to anyone looking for a gym, whether it is to improve their fitness or to learn self-defence, or both, would be to try Dynamis Gym out for themselves. It is a friendly gym with a great mix of people and the instruction is of a very high standard.
Mark
Teacher
We teach the 9 Attitudes for Personal Safety:
The Relaxed Attitude
Activated when there is nothing to worry about, when in a place or among people who make you feel safe and secure. An important anchor for all that is good and worth protecting in life.
The Alert Attitude
Activated when our innate body-mind system detects some anomaly in our environment which draws our attention and demands that we examine it closely to review if we are safe.
The Preventive Attitude
Activated when we identify that an anomaly in our environment is a risk to our safety and we actively need to do something to reduce the threat of it becoming harmful to us.
The Survival Attitude
Activated when our instinctive protective mechanisms have fired under a sudden assault and and we cognitively seek to leverage those reflexes to survive the inital collision.
The Reversal Attitude
Activated at the moment when, fuelled by emotion, we physically, psychologically and emotionally regain balance and transition into productive movement to stop or slow the assailant.
The Engagement Attitude
Activated when we press an opportunity created by survival and reversal and exploit it by causing dysfunction in the assailant, in order to meet our protection goal.
The Escape Attitude
Activated when our protection goal is to move towards safety and away from the assailant immediately as the opportunity presents itself.
The Control Attitude
Activated when we cannot simply move towards safety and away from the assailant, usually in complex situations regarding some duty of care to them or others.
The Harm Attitude
Activated when the only viable option to create safety is to definitively stop the assailant from being able to continue to cause harm.