Street sparring, 14oz boxing gloves.

Using a knife in self defence training

Men's Self Defense Lessons Limassol

Practising what we preach since 2005, tested and proven to work in real life. A unique mix of tactical fitness training, MMA mixed martial arts and combative self defense based on Defendu.

Self defense Lessons cover the following areas.

• Fit to fight? Get real about your current fitness and stamina to win in a real fight. V1 Tactical Fitness workouts are a major component of our self defence training for men. Learn self defence as you get warrior fit. You won't need any other gym membership when you start our combative self defence lessons in Limassol.
• Learn how to deal with any size opponent in real life situations, at work, while driving (road rage), home intruders.
• Learn how to practice daily the awareness system as used by police, military worldwide.
• Ground fighting to win, it's not a sport!
• Be safer at night when out in Limassol, or anywhere in the world with realistic self defence training that ANYONE can master in 10 weeks. You don't need a black belt for self-defence on the street, you need simple PROVEN techniques that have been trained to instinctively take effect when faced with a fight or flight situation.
• Learn how to deal with a knife attack and survive.
• Become your own bodyguard with tactical awareness training for Cyprus, as well as international travel.
• Emergency preparedness survival training for social chaos, man-made and natural disaster scenarios.
• Learn how to protect yourself and your family in real life situations you may actually face in reality today, tomorrow, next week.
• Home invasion self-defence training for you and your family members.
• Simple and fast to learn self-defence and survival skills that automatically take over when faced with a real attack in the street.​
• Fighting with a heavy stick or club.
• Combat machete fighting.​​

Semi and full contact sparring available.

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PROFESSIONAL SAFE TRAINING - Despite the nature of the training, we maintain a 100% zero client injury record since opening in Limassol, January 2011. 

V1  FITNESS self defence programme is simple to learn and very brutal in its application. Designed to give you the highest percentage of surviving a REAL FIGHT self-defence situation. If you are looking for 'cool moves' to impress your friends, find a martial arts class. If you're looking for a no B.S., KILL OR BE KILLED COMBAT SELF DEFENCE, this is it.

See also MMA mixed martial arts Limassol
See also Tactical firearms training Cyprus
See also Children's Self Defense Limassol
​See also Women's self defense classes Limassol

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Reality check

1. There is no such a thing as Mens Self Defense and Women's Self Defense. There is only SELF DEFENSE!

Yes we are guilty of making two separate pages for men and women's self defense lessons, the ONLY reason we do this is for SEO (search engine optimisation - Google search results). There is NO DIFFERENCE in self defense for both women and men, it's either a proven method of self defense training that can be effective for anyone, of any ability, in any situation, or it's not.  Sure we train men a little rougher in our classes, buts that only because they are generally physically bigger and stronger that the women who sign up for our beginners self defense lessons, and yes we focus on sexual assault scenarios more with women, but the method of self defense we practice is ONE SYSTEM for both men and women, a proven system of hand to hand and weapons self defense as used by law enforcement and military personal today across the world and ever since World War II (Defendu).

2. Self Defence or Self Defense?

We believe it should be spelled DEFENCE in Cyprus (British English) not DEFENSE (American English), but again we realise from our Google analytics that most people in Cyprus are using American English keyboards and spell checkers, so for the benefit of Google search results we are using DEFENSE a lot of the time on our website.

2. The images on our website are taken during actual high intensity self defense training.

After nearly a decade of training hundreds of clients in reality self defense and street MMA in Cyprus, we have an endless supply of real training images to give you a genuine representation of the realistic training that we offer.

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Ground fighting for keeps, all part of our reality self defense training.

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​Frequently asked questions about V1 FITNESS men's self defense lessons.

1. Are you teaching Krav Maga? NO, my background is U.K. mixed martial arts and a modern day form of Defendu. Defendu existed decades before Krav Maga, it was the first modern form of combative military kill or be killed fighting system taught to British elite special forces during World War 11 and is still being taught today to military and police.
2. How long will it take to learn self defense? It all depends on you and how serious you are about self defense training. Self defense is not something you learn once and forget about until you face an actual life and death situation, it's more a way of life that should be practised every week, all year, every year. We can give you everything you need to know in 10 lessons, but if you don't continue to practice on your own, with a partner or at other self defense systems, when it comes to you actually needing self defense, you will most likely freeze with fear and adrenaline and do NOTHING. This is the reality of self defense.

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Recommended trousers for V1 FITNESS combative training.

Recommended boxing gloves, Must be 14oz weight to be V1 FITNESS approved.

Recommended grappling gloves. Must have thumb protection.

Michael Rivers tactical self defense training, Poland.

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