Urban Combatives West

ABOUT UC WEST

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

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

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. 

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.

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). 

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.

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