Self-Defense Videos

All new materials based on our famous Get R.E.A.L. and Cognitive Defense Tactics seminars. These videos go over in depth the pre contact stages of a fight, behavioural psychology and scenario replications...

A must for those who put themselves in harms way (security personnel, bouncers, law enforcement officers)...

Richard is back with Volume 2 of his self defense tips and rants, live from Penrith, Sydney, Australia at the Safe House for Safe International Sydney with Safe team member Jeff Phillips and owner Chris Roberts. Volume 2 covers 'Tactile Sensitivity'...

Volume #2 of the Senshido Video-zine group class series. Live group class, the Monkey in the Middle Drill is an intensive Alive Drill that allows the participant to work several components including: Intuition, Multiple Attacker Awareness, The 5 Principles of Physical Retaliation, Extreme Close Quarter Combat Arsenal...

This video is NOT another grappling tape, it is a close-quarter and ground fighting tape covering realistic street tactics against a larger, stronger opponent hell bent on taking you down and out...

How to handle a stick in a realistic and applicable manner. No fancy moves, direct to the point offensive and defensive stick use. This video is not a 'how to become a stick fighter' tape but more of a conceptual, how to 'fight with a stick' video...

Featuring over 20 Combative Conditioning exercises, for men and women, using minimal or no equipment, you can train in your own home! Richard and Helen take you through Senshido's grueling 1 and half-hour workout designed to enhance your combative abilities and survival by fostering an iron body and will...

Picking up where Functional Combative Drill Training left off, this video contains 10 all new Senshido Drills to enhance your street survival skills! These drills are applicable to any system or style!

The Shredder Enhancer contains new Shredder information as the concept continuously evolves as well as several new drills designed to heighten your Shredding skills by ten-fold. Some demystifications, misconceptions and detailed explanations on the Shredder & energy drills also included...

Volume #1 of the Senshido Video-zine group class series. Filmed completely live. 'Special' appearance by Ian (Vamp) who comes in late but participates in the class as well...

Concerned about facing multiple attackers? You should be. Next to facing an armed opponent, it's probably one of the most dangerous situations you can come across...

Includes sucker punches, tackles and take downs, one and two arm lapel grabs, head locks (standing and on the ground), the in your face ego attack where you can smell your opponent's breath, shoves, pinned to the ground, the mounted position and more.

A how to package. This 33 page manual and 120 minute + video is a complete, thorough and detailed study guide on scenario replications. Excellent for instructors, LEO, study groups, or anyone with training partners interested in quality information on how to run the most realistic scenarios to enhance survivability and create the proper mental blueprints for possible real life confrontations...

This video features Senshido's early beginnings from when the school first opened in 1994. (Warning: High level of contact.)

The Shredder is a spontaneous fusillade of gross-motor attacks such as eye gouges, face rakes, ear and nose rips, bites, hair pulls, neck wrenches and throat crushes. The onslaught also can include elbows, head butts and other close-range assaults, making it perfect for real street fights...

In this installment, Rich goes over in a fine detail the differences between self defense, martial arts and fighting, differentiating and establishing strategies for social and antisocial violence and more...

The most common weapon used on the street is the knife and other forms of edged weapons such as a razor blade, screwdriver and/or broken beer bottle. This video shows you dozens of drills to improve your close quarter arsenal against an armed attacker...

This video features the origin's of the Shredder before it was called the Shredder... The entire body can be used as a weapon and the entire body also possesses nerve clusters, pain receptors primary and secondary targets...

Raw, unapologetic and straight to the point, Rich shares his experiences, training and research with those interested in this new series of video downloads with the first volume covering over 40 minutes of materials to make you rethink your self-defense training and teaching paradigm.

Rich's Tips n' Rants 3 goes beyond verbal defusing and tackles violence at the social roots of confrontations...

All new drills to enhance your street survival skills. These drills are applicable to any system or style and include drills that max out your hand eye coordination, invoke adrenaline dumps, forces gross motor skills to the max...

Includes: Static knife at carotid, gun at head, rope strangulations from behind and baseball bat attacks. Includes where to avoid getting cut, dangerous depth and lengths of cut, the psychology of an armed assailant, handling the blade and grip security...

Forget bodybuilding, forget isolation training, real fighters need Core Muscle development which unifies the whole body for functional and useable strength! Combative Strength Training 2 picks up where Combative Strength Training 1 left off: Using gym equipment this time..

Covers: the psychology of violence, the 5 Principles of Physical Retaliation, natural stances, the passive stance, reflexive responses and tactical street defense drills.

Learn the only personal protection program specifically designed for women recommended by both the CLSC and the Montreal Sexual Assault Center...

This is a conceptual video, if you're looking for a 'how to techniques' video, this isn't for you. Includes: Profiling, behavioral aspects, how to develop strong neural pathways, developing a tactical edge, increasing perception time...

Picking up where On the Cutting Edge V1 left off, this video deals with more advanced knife defense tactics including the dreaded rear hand pump and stab while being grabbed by the lead hand. This video is conceptual and offers many life saving concepts and attributes to enhance your survivability in a knife attack...

Take advantage of a real expert grappler, Ian Vampiro Hodgkinson's experience while he takes you through the down and dirty road of grappling. Standing at 6' 3" and weighing 265 pounds, Ian Hodgkinson, internationally known as "Vampiro" has been involved in Professional Wrestling since 1985, has won the heavy weight Canadian Brazilian Jiu Jitsu championship and worked as a body guard for high profile clients in the US and Mexico...

Richard Dimitri had the pleasure of teaching along side veterans Marc 'Animal' MacYoung and Sammy Franco as a member of the Combat Coalition at the first Coalition seminar in Summit New Jersey circa 2000...