Geoff Thompson (writer)
| Geoff Thompson | |
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| Born |
12 June 1960 Coventry, England, UK |
| Style | Boxing, Kickboxing, Karate, Judo |
| Rank |
8th degree black belt Karate 1st degree black belt Judo 1st degree black belt Aikido |
| Website | geoffthompson |
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, 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.
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, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Greco-Roman- and Freestyle wrestling.
He holds the ABA Boxing Instructor certificate and high-level coaching awards for wrestling, as well as a 1st Dan in Judo, and an 8th Dan in Shotokan Karate.
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.
In addition to his books, Geoff Thompson has written and presented a series of martial arts and self-help DVDs. In 1995, he and his self-defense school featured in the Channel 4 documentary Passengers. In 2004, Thompson won a BAFTA award for 'best short film' for his screenplay "Brown Paper Bag". His short film "Bouncer" starred Ray Winstone. His most recent work "Romans 12:20" directed by the Shammasian Brothers and starring Craig Conway has finished production and was shown at a private screening in London on 23 January 2008. It toured the film festival circuit in the early part of 2008.
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