Lee Morrison
Website: http://www.urbancombatives.com

About Lee Morrison: Lee Morrison had to learn how to defend himself the HARD WAY...from being the bullied new kid at school to working some tough doors at UK night clubs.  In the end, Lee was forced to abandon his "traditional" past for a never-ending journey into the science of "urban combatives"...and now he shares those lessons with YOU!

Moving around a lot as a child, Lee Morrison was always the "new kid" and subjected to bullies of all shapes and sizes.  Frequently finding himself in a position of having to defend himself, Lee began his martial arts training in karate at the early age of 11.  But it was an attack by two men outside the Belsize Park tube station in London that sparked his path to finding other methods to become "combat proficient"!

Here's what happened in Lee's own words...

"The two lads approached me, one in front and the other just to his right. Then one of them said something like 'Oi mate have you got any spare change?' I simply said 'No, sorry' in a polite tone as I kept walking.

From here one of them blocked my path and came back with 'alright then, any money we find on you, we're taking!'  I instantly realised the seriousness of my situation, I dropped my gym bag to the floor and acted pre-emptively by punching one them in the mouth, then kicking the other in the groin.

Although my shots were fast and accurate, they had absolutely no effect what so-ever other than temporarily stunning my opponents.

The reason for this (unbeknownst to me at the time) is that my muscle memory had only been conditioned to deliver touch with control impact.

This is what comes from the practice of punching and striking out at nothing more than air, and training for point- semi-contact sparring for years. Instead, (as I later realised) I should have been developing the muscle memory for true knock out force, which only comes from lots of impact training on pads and bags.

After a brief spell of hyper-vigilance I ended up fighting tooth and nail with flailing fists and hair pulling tenacity. Nothing even remotely resembling the traditional karate that I had learnt so far, came out.

The two lads ran off empty handed, leaving me stunned and dishevelled and confused as to why karate had proved so ineffectual.

Just to add insult to injury as I bent down to pick up my gym-bag, my brand-newly acquired, silk woven black belt fell out of the bag onto the path, this was followed by me kicking it up the road in disgust with myself.

Of course on hindsight I can now see, that it wasn't karate that failed me in this street situation. It was the fact that the karate training methods, that I had been practiced for years, were just inappropriate for the street situation I was facing."

Lee's subsequent journey into finding a fighting system that would truly allow him to defend himself in a REAL street situation let to training in many different systems from such origins as Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Filipino weapon systems, Western boxing and Wrestling.

All of his newly acquired skills were put to the test when he started working as a pub and night club doorman where he discovered dramically escallated his "learning curve" through real defensive scenarios.

Ultimately training in Western Combatives of the great hand-to-hand combat instructors of WW2, Lee focused on areas such as the concepts of being pre-emptive, training for impact and learning all he could about the adrenal response.

All in all, Lee's path can be summed up by one of his favorite quotes...

? Thirty seconds on the sidewalk is worth three years in the dojo.?

Want to learn what REALLY works when you're staring into the eyes of one or more large attackers hell-bent on teaching you a lesson?  Lee Morrison's Urban Combatives training is meant to teach YOU the lessons he had to learn the "hard way" as a doorman and lifelong martial artist frequently placed in danger's way.  For more information go to: www.urbancombatives.com