7: Accessible self-defence training
People of all abilities have the right and need to learn to defend themselves. Self-defence isn’t about fighting, it is about dealing with conflict, verbal and physical. Everyone encounters some form of conflict in their life, and it is important that people of all abilities learn the skills needed to manage conflict and protect themselves. A guest interviewer, Grace, interviews Tactix founder Sean from Newcastle, and he talks about his approach to inclusive self-defence training. Episode 7- Accessible Self DefenceSPEAKERSNicky Weeks, Sean Oultram, Grace PaineIntro 00:02Welcome to the Personal Strength Podcast: building confidence for life. Here's your host, Nicky Weeks.Nicky 00:14if you've been thinking about starting a martial art or self-defence, or introducing your child to one, are you concerned about the accessibility of training for you or your child? Hopefully this episode will provide some insight. Today we have a guest interviewer Grace Paine, who works with us at Personal Strength. Grace will be interviewing Sean Ultram from Tactix Training in Newcastle. Tactix Training provides mixed martial arts, Brazilian jujitsu, self-defence and bullying prevention training. Tactix prides themselves on being able to deliver training to everyone regardless of situation or disability. Here are Grace and Sean.Grace 00:51Well, I just wanted to thank you for being on the podcast Sean, very happy to have you here and learn about Tactix training. To get started, I would just like to know where were you before you started Tactix Training.Sean 01:04Okay, so thanks for having me on, by the way, I'm really excited. Looking forward to getting to it. So, before I started Tactix, I was – I've done I've done a number of jobs, probably most importantly for, you know, just moving forward in the interview is I was a security guard for a long time in nightclubs, and I was a doorman. So, I used to deal with people coming in and having a lot of confrontations. Yeah, which is, which was a great experience. And I learned a lot doing that. And I was also a youth worker for a long time. So, I worked for a company, who, when I worked for them, mostly dealt with behavioural kids with or without disability. So, I actually ran a house in, uh, with a couple of, well there was always two boys in the house with disabilities and they had behavioural issues. So yeah, that was a that was a fun one to learn a lot with those guys.Grace 01:53You would, definitely very experienced in like, the bodyguard, disability sector, it sounds like.Sean 02:00Yeah, yeah. So that was sort of my, my background for Tactix.Grace 02:04Awesome. And so, what motivated you then to start Tactix Training in the first place?Sean 02:11So, because I've been involved in martial arts for a long time, like I'm currently a brown belt in Brazilian Jujitsu, and I've done mixed martial arts and kickboxing and all that stuff. I sort of, actually getting back to [my previous workplace] I had a client who, he was pretty overweight, he didn't do really anything. And you know, we've I tried everything to get him moving and doing exercise and what have you. So, he came to me one day and said that he wanted to do karate. And I was like, oh mate, that's fantastic. Let's get right onto that. So y’know, I started looking around, and I’m like, surely someone's doing that for kids with disabilities. And there was no one, you know, not only in Newcastle, but like anywhere. Y’know. I couldn't find anyone really in Australia that was doing it. So, I was like, oh, man, well, you know, I'm not a karate guy. But I, you know,