{"id":2481,"date":"2011-10-20T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T10:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2011-10-21T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T13:16:15","slug":"my-new-personal-safety-website-pdrmanchester-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/my-new-personal-safety-website-pdrmanchester-com\/","title":{"rendered":"My new Personal Safety website: PDRManchester.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 6 weeks I&#8217;ve been working hard on building a new website and am very pleased to say it&#8217;s now ready for public consumption.  As you may know, whilst I might be a mild mannered office worker by day, I have a super hero alter-ego as a self defence coach.  Well maybe not &#8220;super-hero&#8221;, I mean <strong>who doesn&#8217;t like to wear superhero pants?!?<\/strong> but hopefully you get my drift. (Pssst that&#8217;s not a picture of me, just in case you were confused.)<\/p>\n<p>I actually <strong>don&#8217;t like the term &#8220;self defence&#8221; which conjures up all the wrong images<\/strong> I think. Certainly before I had my eyes opened to the alternative, self defence to me was all about taking years to learn martial arts, wearing Gi&#8217;s and belts, hitting pads, bowing, counting in Japanese \/ Korean \/ Chinese, learning lots of techniques and repeating them thousands of times till they are inch perfect.  Sorry, but that&#8217;s just not my bag, as Jim Carey rather facetiously demonstrates:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVING COLOUR - Jim Carey-Karate Instructor\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h_vvI26NnwE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"left\"><p>You can learn to defend yourself in a matter of hours not years<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately that&#8217;s not what Personal Defence Readiness (PDR) is all about and it was a massive eye opener to me to realise that you can learn to defend yourself in a matter of hours not years.  The key to this approach is to realise that <strong>personal protection is influenced far more by mindset<\/strong> and attitude, than it is by physical techniques or skills.<\/p>\n<p>The PDR system not only peels back the layers of Bad Guy behaviour to reveal what they want and what the don&#8217;t want (knowing this gives you a distinct advantage) but also allows you to open the door to your own emotional and psychological state, to <strong>free yourself of fear<\/strong> and to take the right action at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Towards this end, Karl and Rachel Steadman (from CrossFit3D), Chris Worrall (CrossFit Tameside) and I have all got together to launch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdrmanchester.com\" title=\"Self defence classes in Manchester\">PDR Manchester<\/a>, which is a collaborative website for all present and future PDR Coaches in Manchester to work together to promote each other and PDR generally in the wider community.  Together we can and will <strong>help to make the people of Manchester safer, with more confidence<\/strong> and I&#8217;m proud to be a part of that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"right\"><p>Our first collaborative course is open for bookings<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The website has lots of information about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdrmanchester.com\/research\/pdr-spear-system\/\" title=\"The difference between the SPEAR System and PDR explained\">PDR, the SPEAR System<\/a> and it&#8217;s creator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdrmanchester.com\/research\/tony-blauer-bts\/\" title=\"Tony Blauer and Blauer Tactical Systems\">Tony Blauer<\/a>. It also has a real-time list of all the courses we&#8217;re putting on with an online booking facility.  Our first collaborative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdrmanchester.com\/events\/\" title=\"4 week PDR course\">PDR course is currently open for bookings<\/a> and is split over the 4 Thursday evenings in November at CrossFit Tameside. Go take a look.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, I wonder what the best phrase is to replace the tainted &#8220;self defence&#8221;.  Initial thoughts are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal Defence (obvious from the PDR connection)<\/li>\n<li>Personal Safety<\/li>\n<li>Personal Protection<\/li>\n<li>Self Protection<\/li>\n<li>Conflict Management<\/li>\n<li>Violence Resolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have an opinion on this, please comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 6 weeks I&#8217;ve been working hard on building a new website and am very pleased to say it&#8217;s now ready for public consumption. As you may know, whilst I might be a mild mannered office worker by day, I have a super hero alter-ego as a self defence coach. Well maybe not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,215],"tags":[286,244,240,223,206,224,292,366,216,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-2481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-self-defence","9":"tag-chris-worrall","10":"tag-colin-mcnulty","11":"tag-crossfit-tameside","12":"tag-crossfit3d","13":"tag-karl-steadman","14":"tag-pdr","15":"tag-rachel-steadman","16":"tag-self-defence","17":"tag-spear","18":"tag-tony-blauer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}