Hei-Jo Shin Ju-jitsu Bridgend
Address
community centre, 1 Tairfelin Wildmill, Bridgend CF31 1SP, United Kingdom
Phone +447546506800
About Us
I started Martial arts at the age of 8 due to my love of Monkey from the 1978 Tv series (Monkey King: journey to the west), But mainly to counter the constant bullying I faced while growing up.
The first Matial art I studied was judo this was because of the countless times I was grabbed by said bullies. As I got older though I realised that Judo was limited in stopping attacks as unless I was close enough to throw or take the bully down.
So I began to study karate at 14 to combat an attack from a strike, whilst learning to strike for myself where I found a love for different forms of kicks.
The downside to this was when I was 16 when I was attacked by a drunk male carrying a knife, because I was studying karate at the time when the attacker showed the knife I kicked the knife out of his hand and ran for my life, it wasn’t until I asked my Sensai what I could have done differently did I realise how bad the situation could have ended if say the blade went a different angle.
Because of this I then began to study Aikido as I realised I needed to study a Martial art that deals with weapons, Over time though I began to miss the striking aspects so I started a full-contact form of karate known as Kyokushin Karate where I realised they didn’t strike to the face unless it was a kick.
Because of this, I started to study full-contact kickboxing.
Over the many years of training, I floated from one art to another, trying to find an art which gave a well-rounded syllabus for countering an attack.
