Youth Empowerment System

We help students build confidence, awareness, and personal safety skills.

Focused Youth Safety Session

A practical session for building awareness, confidence, and everyday personal safety skills.

A More Personal Way to Build Confidence in Today’s Youth.

This focused training session introduces students to practical habits that support safer decision-making. We cover awareness, positioning, boundaries, and clear responses in a calm, structured setting. The emphasis is on understanding what to notice and how to act before a situation escalates.

Students also practise simple movement and defensive techniques at a comfortable pace. Each exercise is explained clearly, with time to ask questions and repeat key skills. The result is a grounded learning experience that helps students feel more prepared without creating unnecessary fear.

Ideal For

  • Students seeking practical safety skills

  • Beginners with no previous training

  • Students building confidence in unfamiliar situations

  • Anyone wanting a focused personal safety session

How It Works

  1. Understand Your Goals: We begin by discussing your experience and the situations you want to prepare for.

  2. Learn Practical Skills: I guide you through awareness, boundaries, movement, and simple defensive responses.

  3. Practise With Guidance: You repeat the key techniques with feedback so they feel clear and manageable.

About

We deliver practical self defence and personal safety skills for everyday people, students, groups, and organizations. Our approach combines awareness, prevention, de-escalation, decision-making, and realistic physical techniques in a calm, supportive environment. We help people build confidence without aggression, learn at their own pace, and prepare for situations that may require a clear, effective response. Every session is focused on practical learning, personal growth, and getting home safely.

COACHES:

Steve Hache, CD

  • Director, instructor EastGuard Self Defence System

  • 3rd Dan Combat Hapkido

  • Years of Ju Jitsu, Jeet Kune Do, and Kickboxing experience

  • Self defence coach

  • Personal safety coach

  • Military veteran (RCN 1989-2010)

  • Former small arms instructor, RCN

  • Former maritime security instructor (tactical boat operations, maritime law enforcement, use of force), CNIA Abu Dhabi, UAE

Andrew Dykens

  • Senior Instructor, EastGuard Self Defence Systemi

  • 4th Dan Uechi-Ryu Karate

  • Several years of submission wrestling, boxing, and kung fu experience

  • Self defence coach

  • Personal safety coach

  • Boxing coach

  • Core Training instructor

  • Boot Camp instructor

  • Level 3 Certification Fitness Kickboxing

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Services

01

Tactical Self Defence

We deliver realistic self defence, awareness, and prevention skills.

02

Corporate Training

We deliver practical personal safety and de-escalation training at your location.

03

Accessible Group Training

We provide adapted self defence sessions for groups, including wheelchair users.

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Contact

Contact us to ask questions or explore the right training option for you.