Wing Tzun meets Defendo

An Easter weekend in Dubai

This Easter weekend I met Johhny Brenna, Chief Instructor from Defendo in Norway. A great guy with a lot of experience. Defendo is a no-nonsense self-defense system that originates from the army and has been developed since 1920. Defendo is pure self-defense and is not bound to any rules that come with competition. They will attack your week points (eyes, throat, groin) at any chance they have. Defendo covers the whole range from punch, kick, knees, elbow, grabbing and ground-fighting. The core of the system is the grabbing or clinch as they call it. Therefore, Defendo is very physical and you need to be quite strong. This is a big difference with Wing Tzun where we try to avoid clinching and wrestling as much as we can. Once in the clinch it is very hard to use elbows and punches, especially against someone who is trained to fight in this position. To complete the unarmed self-defense they have some techniques against a knife as well. I found Defendo very practical & straight forward. All in all it was a nice exchange of ideas and concepts. I learned new things and it was an afternoon well spent. Thanks Johhny :-)