MASTER GUEST  5th Dan, my own instructor has his own site, he has some videos of destruction techniques and competition scoring that are worth a butcher's. Also class times and venues. neilguest@h-o-e-t-c.freeserve.co.uk

www.h-o-e-t-c.freeserve.co.uk

BTCB Join it now or kiss your Olympic chances goodbye ( or something like that!) www.btcb.org

KENILWORTH  My own class, We currently train once a week, Tuesdays evenings 7.30 to 9.00

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We perform WTF Taekwondo, but within the class I like to give my students an all round Martial Arts education with the emphasis on personal safety. We have a problem as instructors that students come to us and learn a particular style, become reasonably proficient at it, then walk around outside the class thinking that they can take on all-comers. Anybody who has trained for an extended period of time in the arts will understand this is a dangerous position to put yourself in, and you are only heading for a fall if you enter into combat outside the dojang. One of my favourite quotes (with apologies to wizard Rincewind of the Unseen University) is "He who runs away today, lives to run away another day!" . I tell my students that their best defence is their legs, they should run away from confrontation and keep running until the assailant is either lost, gives up, or falls down in an untidy heap. A footnote to any instructors, this also means that you get to keep more students because they don't get beaten up so often.

A bunch of my students, some wearing full contact body armour, not that I would trust any of them to use it, I mean, look at that nutter on the end!

Me and a few friends at a seminar by Master Sang H Kim, a fantastic instructor and inspirational teacher

This is me with my oldest son Robert, he's still only four but enjoys taking part in the classes and demonstrations, I hope to get him into a full training regime when he is old enough to appreciate the arts, but I don't want to be a pushy parent!