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Defendo Kotka ry.
Kukkulapolku 1
48350 Kotka

ohjaajat@defendokotka.com

Training groups

Basic course

This is the group for the Hard Target-course students.

Also when the course is active, this is where you can
come to refresh your memory if you had a longer
break from training.

Hard Target

After the basic course you continue training in
this group. This is also usually the group where
you start training if you join the classes
without the basic course (this requires background
from other martial art/system)

Normally in this group the students have trained
between 4-18 months and usually after about 1,5
years you move to the next group.
Moving to the next group is voluntary and if you
want to, you can stay in this group as long as
you like.
In this group the new techniques are mainly from
Combat Tech-1 level and of course we train all the time
HT-level techniques which are base of the system.

Advanced

In this group train students with longest training
history/experience. Here students have about 1,5
years of experiene at minimum.
Here the new techniques are from CT-2 level and
above and of course rehearsing lower levels
all the time.

In this group we don´t usually let people start
training without experience from defendo even
if you had experience from other disciplines.

Professional group

In this group train men and women from
police, military, customs and border guard.
To this group you will get in only by invitation
or by contacting instuctors.

This group trains mainly about 1-4 times a month,
depenging how much people are able to attend
each training session.

Training sessions time is always booked forehand
and informed personally to all members of the
group with a text-message. Times and dates vary
almost every time, because of the working hours
of the members of this group.

About training in different groups:

Both in HT- and Advanced groups, we do
naturally basic technique training but also
lot of "alive",- scenario- and casedrills as well
as sparring (of course needs proper safety
equipment).
This kind of training is already done at
the end of basic course also, but usually
little lighter and not so often.
Sparring is taken to program mainly after
the basic course.

In the Professional group´s training we do
very diverse training of use on force-techniques
including both physical and different
equipment/weapons.
We also train tactics and self-defence/fighting
with scenario- and casetraining.
Our goal is also to organize 1-2 times a year
an outside instructor to hold a seminar/classes
to this group.