Guy Bloom - History of Guy Bloom the creator of the Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T System©
Guy Bloom
•
Combat Hall of Fame - 2011
•
Creator of the Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T System©
•
Master Wing Chun instructor
•
Thai Boxing Coach
•
Behavioural Coach & Lecturer
•
Psychometric Assessor
•
Columnist
First things first!
Read the history, vision, the way and brand sections of the site and you'll start to get a sense of my approach to the
endeavour that is Defiance Combat. Beyond all it's paramount to understand that this is a culmination of years of
training, development, research, pressure testing and finally a real bit of soul searching as to whether this was a
really quick route to looking a fool, or that Defiance Combat had something special. I believe it's the latter.
Let's dispel any myths at the start
I am not or have never been any of the following: a ninja, in the special forces, a doorman or bouncer, street fighter,
gangster, title holder for a World Championship, in the CIA, MI5, a bodyguard, befriended by a travelling guru and
trained as a child to succeed as the Grandmaster, I haven't got the fastest punch in the world, can't bench press
10x my own body weight or in fact just about any other thing that seems to be a prerequisite for having an opinion
on self-defense.
In fact I am in many respects embarrassingly normal(ish), which as it turns out is going to be the key element. What
I am is in many ways probably very similar to you, the only difference is that I have a driving passion to create a self
defense brand that can stand alone purely on it's own merit, without the weight or myth of a figure head to validate
it.
What do I mean
Cutting to the chase! I think:
•
I'm right about self defense
•
That a lot of stuff being taught out there will as likely be the death of you as anything else
•
That the fact your teacher is a tough son of a gun, doesn't mean they have the capacity to help you
•
That much of the self defense world is built on false assumptions and implausible technique
•
That a martial art is only of use to a martial artist (maybe)
•
That science is the corner stone of understanding self defense
•
Most importantly, I think I can prove it
Who do you think you are?
I am, and lets be absolutely sure we understand this......YOU! If you had had the time to study, discuss, research, create, test and design
a self defense system that a normal person could learn and master in an accelerated time frame.
Whether you are a non-martial artist, military, martial artist, police I am going to put you into the category of normal, which is the category
that sits outside of those listed in the 2nd paragraph above. Normal people need something that doesn't rely on the hope that you will
actually do that incredibly complicated thing you rehearse in the training room, that you are nastier than the attacker or even that you react
with that incredibly simple thing that you train once or twice a week for a hour and a half. I am offering you something that relies on only
one thing, that you do what you do best FLINCH!
What do you do for a living?
I am a Leadership Development Consultant with one of the UK leading performance improvement consultancies, working in Blue Chip
companies delivering Leadership Development, Executive Coaching and Executive Growth Programmes across sectors, predominantly in
the UK & Europe, with about 30% of my time delivering in the US in the last few years this has been Miami, California and Texas.
Throughout my career I have successfully coached & mentored some 400+ Senior Managers and Executives enabling them to make the
steps to create a rewarding career and fruitful home life through the application of proven performance models. I understand the impact
that personal development activity combined with human endeavour can make to the achievement of strategic goals, operational
objectives and a complete life.
My expertise in the commercial coaching sector is focused on Transformational Leadership, Executive Coaching, Mentoring, Cultural
Change Programmes, Organizational Development, Talent Management Strategies and Career Transitioning.
I am a Master Coach with the Behavioural Coaching Institute, a facilitator for the Windsor Leadership Trust, a member of the British
Psychological Association (Level A&B certified), certified to deliver psychometric assessment tools( MBTI I&II, 16pf, Firob, SDI and FLEX),
a trained clinical hypnotist and NLP Master Practitioner.
The focus as you can see is in enabling of individuals to make courageous life choices, so both my martial arts background and my
commercial development, training and coaching are in many ways different ends of the same stick. I have spent the last decade training,
lecturing and coaching in the field of transformational change, working with senior business leaders and top teams on how to create and
maintain long term behavioural change; I not only know how to do it, this is how I make my living; in an environment that expects results.
What about your Martial Arts background?
I became a Wing Chun Kung Fu Instructor at 17 yrs old, I was qualified by Grandmaster Sam Kwok and also authenticated by
Grandmaster Ip Chun (son of Ip Man, the teacher of Bruce Lee); who signed my certificate and confirmed my chinese name as Kwok
Chung Mo (Kwok=Teachers surname/Chung=Loyalty/Mo= To the Martial Arts).
I did all the normal thing one does when you are a teenager, training like a lunatic, ran clubs, tested what I knew; travelled to Hong Kong
and trained with Grandmaster Ip Ching (Ip Chun's younger brother) I think we can safely say I was a bit obsessed.
Then I did the unthinkable I rebelled against the traditional approach to a brilliant system that just didn't seem to be working like it should
and formed my own approach Combat Wing Chun.
I also became an instructor in Thai Boxing and added this to my thinking along with a deep understanding of Kali, Boxing and Grappling.
Over 30 years I have spoken to practitioners of every style of martial art, every conceivable training regime, the battle hardened, the street
wise, the sports person, old masters and a whole lot personalities involved in the I have the secret way (they don't).
Present day I am of course training and developing the Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T System©, but also attending workshops of other great
instructors to make sure that I am constantly challenging my own knowledge and ensuring that I am not talking about things from a
distance, but from experience.
Doesn't sound much?
It doesn't look much when you type it out, but it's plenty. As there are a few things that aren't down in the text and the most important one
is that I am by nature a 'research it, try it, let's do it' person.
I like to trial things, pressure test them, see if they hold up in the real world, I enjoy finding the triggers that release the maximum potential
of the individual and I am very good at it.
This is to me why I have been successful in my coaching in both the sports and commercial arena, I don't separate the two worlds. Facing
your fear, making brave choices, thinking, practising, understanding your key drivers and working them from conscious effort, to
unconscious output is my area of expertise....they are the same thing in different guises.
Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T System© offers a new paradigm on the martial arts, self defense training & certification training. It takes the
traditional values of the martial arts, the modern cognitive behavioural psychologies, today’s understanding of physiology and
psychological responses, the tactics needed for 21st century battle field, combat threat response and fuses them into a concentrated
format delivered via accelerated learning techniques. It works.
Guy Bloom
Creator of the Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T System©
"Defiance Combat
is rooted in a belief
that it's not your
fists that solve the
problem, that it's
who you are as a
person that decides
whether or not you
can handle a threat
situation"
Guy Bloom
Creator of the
Defiance Combat
F.R.A.C.T System©
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Copyright © 2010.Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T Self Defence.2010. All rights reserved
Guy Bloom
•
Combat Hall of Fame - 2011
•
Creator of the Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T System©
•
Master Wing Chun instructor
•
Thai Boxing Coach
•
Behavioural Coach & Lecturer
•
Psychometric Assessor
•
Columnist
First things first!
Read the history, vision, the way and brand sections of the site and you'll start to get a sense of my approach to the
endeavour that is Defiance Combat. Beyond all it's paramount to understand that this is a culmination of years of
training, development, research, pressure testing and finally a real bit of soul searching as to whether this was a
really quick route to looking a fool, or that Defiance Combat had something special. I believe it's the latter.
Let's dispel any myths at the start
I am not or have never been any of the following: a ninja, in the special forces, a doorman or bouncer, street fighter,
gangster, title holder for a World Championship, in the CIA, MI5, a bodyguard, befriended by a travelling guru and
trained as a child to succeed as the Grandmaster, I haven't got the fastest punch in the world, can't bench press
10x my own body weight or in fact just about any other thing that seems to be a prerequisite for having an opinion
on self-defense.
In fact I am in many respects embarrassingly normal(ish), which as it turns out is going to be the key element. What
I am is in many ways probably very similar to you, the only difference is that I have a driving passion to create a self
defense brand that can stand alone purely on it's own merit, without the weight or myth of a figure head to validate
it.
What do I mean
Cutting to the chase! I think:
•
I'm right about self defense
•
That a lot of stuff being taught out there will as likely be the death of you as anything else
•
That the fact your teacher is a tough son of a gun, doesn't mean they have the capacity to help you
•
That much of the self defense world is built on false assumptions and implausible technique
•
That a martial art is only of use to a martial artist (maybe)
•
That science is the corner stone of understanding self defense
•
Most importantly, I think I can prove it
Who do you think you are?
I am, and lets be absolutely sure we understand this......YOU! If you had had the time to study, discuss, research, create, test and design
a self defense system that a normal person could learn and master in an accelerated time frame.
Whether you are a non-martial artist, military, martial artist, police I am going to put you into the category of normal, which is the category
that sits outside of those listed in the 2nd paragraph above. Normal people need something that doesn't rely on the hope that you will
actually do that incredibly complicated thing you rehearse in the training room, that you are nastier than the attacker or even that you react
with that incredibly simple thing that you train once or twice a week for a hour and a half. I am offering you something that relies on only
one thing, that you do what you do best FLINCH!
What do you do for a living?
I am a Leadership Development Consultant with one of the UK leading performance improvement consultancies, working in Blue Chip
companies delivering Leadership Development, Executive Coaching and Executive Growth Programmes across sectors, predominantly in
the UK & Europe, with about 30% of my time delivering in the US in the last few years this has been Miami, California and Texas.
Throughout my career I have successfully coached & mentored some 400+ Senior Managers and Executives enabling them to make the
steps to create a rewarding career and fruitful home life through the application of proven performance models. I understand the impact
that personal development activity combined with human endeavour can make to the achievement of strategic goals, operational
objectives and a complete life.
My expertise in the commercial coaching sector is focused on Transformational Leadership, Executive Coaching, Mentoring, Cultural
Change Programmes, Organizational Development, Talent Management Strategies and Career Transitioning.
I am a Master Coach with the Behavioural Coaching Institute, a facilitator for the Windsor Leadership Trust, a member of the British
Psychological Association (Level A&B certified), certified to deliver psychometric assessment tools( MBTI I&II, 16pf, Firob, SDI and FLEX),
a trained clinical hypnotist and NLP Master Practitioner.
The focus as you can see is in enabling of individuals to make courageous life choices, so both my martial arts background and my
commercial development, training and coaching are in many ways different ends of the same stick. I have spent the last decade training,
lecturing and coaching in the field of transformational change, working with senior business leaders and top teams on how to create and
maintain long term behavioural change; I not only know how to do it, this is how I make my living; in an environment that expects results.
What about your Martial Arts background?
I became a Wing Chun Kung Fu Instructor at 17 yrs old, I was qualified by Grandmaster Sam Kwok and also authenticated by
Grandmaster Ip Chun (son of Ip Man, the teacher of Bruce Lee); who signed my certificate and confirmed my chinese name as Kwok
Chung Mo (Kwok=Teachers surname/Chung=Loyalty/Mo= To the Martial Arts).
I did all the normal thing one does when you are a teenager, training like a lunatic, ran clubs, tested what I knew; travelled to Hong Kong
and trained with Grandmaster Ip Ching (Ip Chun's younger brother) I think we can safely say I was a bit obsessed.
Then I did the unthinkable I rebelled against the traditional approach to a brilliant system that just didn't seem to be working like it should
and formed my own approach Combat Wing Chun.
I also became an instructor in Thai Boxing and added this to my thinking along with a deep understanding of Kali, Boxing and Grappling.
Over 30 years I have spoken to practitioners of every style of martial art, every conceivable training regime, the battle hardened, the street
wise, the sports person, old masters and a whole lot personalities involved in the I have the secret way (they don't).
Present day I am of course training and developing the Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T System©, but also attending workshops of other great
instructors to make sure that I am constantly challenging my own knowledge and ensuring that I am not talking about things from a
distance, but from experience.
Doesn't sound much?
It doesn't look much when you type it out, but it's plenty. As there are a few things that aren't down in the text and the most important one
is that I am by nature a 'research it, try it, let's do it' person.
I like to trial things, pressure test them, see if they hold up in the real world, I enjoy finding the triggers that release the maximum potential
of the individual and I am very good at it.
This is to me why I have been successful in my coaching in both the sports and commercial arena, I don't separate the two worlds. Facing
your fear, making brave choices, thinking, practising, understanding your key drivers and working them from conscious effort, to
unconscious output is my area of expertise....they are the same thing in different guises.
Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T System© offers a new paradigm on the martial arts, self defense training & certification training. It takes the
traditional values of the martial arts, the modern cognitive behavioural psychologies, today’s understanding of physiology and
psychological responses, the tactics needed for 21st century battle field, combat threat response and fuses them into a concentrated
format delivered via accelerated learning techniques. It works.
Guy Bloom
Creator of the Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T System©
"Defiance Combat
is rooted in a belief
that it's not your
fists that solve the
problem, that it's
who you are as a
person that decides
whether or not you
can handle a threat
situation"
Guy Bloom
Creator of the
Defiance Combat
F.R.A.C.T System©
home - contact - downloads - guarantee - photo’s - sponsors - step 1: foundation - step 2: advanced - step 3: elite - book - vision - brand - the way
next evolution - faq - texas - history - core principles - terminology - guy bloom - law - copyright - articles - termsofsupply - termsofuse - privacypolicy
Copyright © 2010.Defiance Combat F.R.A.C.T Self Defence.2010. All rights reserved