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Geoff Thompson (born in 1960 in Coventry, England) is a writer, teacher, and self-defence instructor. He has written several books on self-defence, martial arts, and fear control,〔(【引用サイトリンク】author =Thompson website )〕〔 〕 as well as ''Watch My Back'', an autobiography about his early years and how he came to be a nightclub doorman working in his hometown of Coventry. ==Fighting disciplines== Thompson began his martial arts training in the Eastern arts including karate, Aikido, and Kung-Fu. However, during his time as a nightclub doorman, he found that what he had learned was inadequate for the reality of violence. Thompson came to realise that the techniques encouraged and practised in touch-contact and semi-contact martial arts were not always suitable for self-defence. Though he utilizes a small core of these techniques as part of his teachings, Thompson prefers full-contact martial arts and combat sports such as boxing, Muay Thai, Judo, Jujutsu, and Greco-roman- and Freestyle wrestling. He holds the ABA Boxing Instructor certificate and high-level coaching awards for wrestling,〔(【引用サイトリンク】author= Geoff Thompson web site )〕 as well as a 1st Dan in Judo,〔(【引用サイトリンク】author= Geoff Thompson web site )〕 and an 8th Dan in Shotokan Karate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The British Combat Association )〕 Geoff Thompson was also the first instructor to name and extensively teach "the fence", a technique in real-life defence involving keeping your hands in front of you in a non-threatening manner so as to protect yourself in case a situation escalates but without provoking violence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoff Thompson (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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