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Richard Grannon started training in traditional martial arts at the age of 10 with Shito Ryu Karate and Spirit Combat Jujitsu. Through his teens, he went on to study Togakure Ryu Ninjitsu and Aikido.  From age 18, whilst studying for a degree in psychology, he took up Muay Thai and Brazillian Jujitsu while delving further and further into his studies into the psychology of fear and violence.  It was this combination of practical martial arts and the psychology behind survival, that led Richard to began studying Reality Based Combatives systems and military hand-to-hand combat techniques.To aid him in instructing his resulting hybrid combative system, he began studying neurolinguistic programming (NLP), qualifying as a master practitioner of at age 21. NLP forms the basisis of the system and the style in which he instructs.At age 21 he put his training and experience to the test as he began work as a doorman, implementing the vast arsenal of physical and psychological techniques he had developed over the years. He later also began providing security and consulting services in Liverpool, England and Tenerife, Spain, all the while continuing his studies in Brazillian Jujitsu, Muay Thai and “Cage Fighting” techniques.Now working as a martial arts instructor and NLP trainer, Richard actively transfers his knowledge of effective survival strategies for a violent attack on the street based not on “theory” or “philosophy”…but through the several violent encounters his profession has engendered.