Updated August 2026 · Private coaching across London
Train privately with Paul Carroll — former British University Heavyweight Boxing Champion, former Great Britain international decathlete and an experienced one-to-one coach.
Women’s Self-Defence London: Practical Lessons Built Around You
Private, beginner-friendly coaching for women who want greater awareness, clearer boundaries, confident movement and practical responses without an intimidating public-class environment.
5.0 from 54 Google reviews · 25+ years coaching · Equipment provided
Train individually or with a friend · Girls and under-18s supported · Enhanced DBS checked
Private women’s self-defence training in London with Paul Carroll.
1-to-1
Private coaching
Calm, controlled and adapted to you
£75–£95
Session rates
Depending on booking option
25+
Years coaching
Boxing, fitness and confidence
Beginner
Friendly
No previous training required
Quick answer
What is private women’s self-defence training?
Private women’s self-defence training teaches awareness, movement and practical options in a controlled lesson built around one person’s age, confidence and experience.
The aim is not to encourage fighting. Through Boxing Trainer London, Paul teaches how to notice risk, communicate clearly, manage distance, move towards safety and practise simple physical responses when avoidance is no longer possible.
Awareness first
Recognise changing situations, exits, obstacles and opportunities to leave early.
Calm boundaries
Use posture, voice and positioning to set a boundary without escalating unnecessarily.
Practical movement
Build balance, footwork and safer angles so you are not fixed in one place.
Controlled practice
Learn progressively without intimidation, uncontrolled contact or pressure to spar.
Choose the right format
Private women’s self-defence lessons or a public class?
Both can be useful, but they solve different problems. This service is designed for women who want individual attention, discretion and lesson content selected around their confidence, experience and personal concerns.
Choose private training when
You are a nervous or complete beginner
You want discreet coaching at an agreed location
A particular concern needs careful discussion
Age, confidence or fitness requires adaptation
You want direct feedback throughout the lesson
Choose a public class when
You prefer a regular venue and timetable
Training with a larger group motivates you
You want a martial-art syllabus or grading system
Partner rotation is important to you
A lower group-session price is the priority
Choose a private class when
Friends or relatives want to learn together
Parents want a shared family session
A workplace wants a focused small-group format
The group has similar ages and objectives
A suitable private training space is available
What you can learn
A practical self-defence toolkit
The content is selected for the individual. Techniques are introduced slowly, practised with control and placed within the wider priority of avoiding danger and reaching safety.
Situational awareness
Scanning, safer positioning, recognising warning signs and making earlier decisions.
Distance and movement
Stance, balance, angles, protective hand position and moving towards an exit.
Punches and defence
Simple boxing strikes, guarding, covering and moving rather than trading punches.
Kicks and elbows
Controlled practice of selected close- and longer-range options where appropriate.
Grabs and holds
Posture, balance, hand positioning and simple responses to selected common grabs.
Stress and decisions
Short, supervised drills that connect technique with calm thinking and safe exits.
Important: no self-defence method can guarantee safety. Training develops options, awareness and confidence; leaving, seeking help and contacting the emergency services remain priorities when possible.
This priorities-first approach is consistent with Metropolitan Police advice to trust your instincts, create distance and look for a way to leave a violent situation. For general guidance, read the Met’s violent-situation safety advice. Questions about lawful force depend on the circumstances; see the official GOV.UK reasonable-force guidance rather than treating a training page as legal advice.
Boxing skills in context
How boxing supports practical Women’s self-defence
Boxing develops several abilities that transfer well to self-defence. A stable stance helps you remain balanced. Footwork teaches you to change position instead of becoming fixed directly in front of someone. Padwork improves coordination, distance judgement and the ability to protect yourself while responding under pressure. Just as importantly, regular coaching can make movement feel more familiar, so a beginner is less likely to freeze simply because a drill becomes faster or less predictable.
However, boxing alone is not a complete answer to personal safety. A boxing contest has rules, gloves, a referee, a clear start and a known opponent. A real confrontation may involve restricted space, poor surfaces, obstacles, other people or an opportunity to leave before anything physical happens. That is why private women’s self-defence lessons add situational awareness, verbal boundaries, escape routes, selected kicks and elbows, and controlled work involving common grabs or holds.
The objective is not to turn every situation into a fight. Physical technique sits near the end of the decision-making process, after noticing risk, communicating clearly and trying to create distance. If physical action becomes necessary, the purpose is to protect yourself long enough to reach safety—not remain present to win an exchange.
This distinction is particularly important for beginners. Paul can use genuine boxing skills without pretending that sport and self-defence are identical. The result is practical training grounded in movement and technique, but taught within the wider context of avoidance, proportionate action and safe exit.
Individual coaching
Who chooses private women’s self-defence training?
Women enquire for different reasons. Some have never trained and want a private introduction without feeling watched or compared with a class. Others want to address confidence while commuting, exercising outdoors, travelling or managing unwanted attention. The lesson is shaped around the individual rather than assuming every woman has the same concern.
Complete beginners
Start privately without needing previous boxing, martial-arts or fitness experience.
Women travelling in London
Explore awareness, boundaries and safer decisions around commuting, walking, work and social settings.
Girls and under-18s
Age-appropriate coaching focused on awareness, boundaries and confidence, arranged with a parent or guardian. Paul is Enhanced DBS checked.
Broader self-defence training
This page concentrates on women. The main service page explains private training for all adults, teenagers, families and small groups.
Two women can enquire about learning together when their goals, experience, location and preferred format are compatible.
Your first lesson
How a private women’s self-defence session works
A first session is not a test and there is no requirement to prove toughness. Paul begins by understanding why you have enquired and what experience you already have. The lesson then moves from simple foundations into selected techniques, with the pace adjusted throughout according to how comfortably and safely you are learning.
01
Discuss your goals
Talk through your experience, confidence, concerns and what you want from training.
02
Movement foundations
Establish posture, balance, protective positioning and movement towards safer space.
03
Selected techniques
Practise suitable strikes, defence or responses to grabs with close supervision.
04
Simple scenarios
Connect awareness, boundaries, movement and technique in controlled drills.
Sessions can take place at an agreed London home, office, suitable park, residential or hotel gym, or private space. Paul confirms whether the proposed location is practical before booking.
Realistic progression
What can you learn from self-defence lessons?
There is no honest promise that a fixed number of lessons will prepare someone for every situation. Progress depends on previous experience, confidence, coordination, practice and the range of subjects being covered. A useful programme builds a small number of dependable habits before adding complexity.
Repetition matters because a long list of clever-looking techniques is difficult to recall under pressure. Early lessons therefore return to the same foundations: posture, balance, hand position, movement, clear boundaries and recognising when to leave. As these become more familiar, Paul can add variations without losing the central purpose of the training.
Progress is also individual. One client may need time to become comfortable making contact with pads, while another may move confidently but need to improve awareness and decision-making. The value of one-to-one coaching is that the programme can respond to what the person actually needs rather than forcing everyone through the same timetable.
One introductory lesson
Understand the priorities, assess your starting point and practise basic posture, movement, boundaries and a small number of controlled physical actions. It is an introduction, not a complete system.
Several focused lessons
Repeat the foundations, improve striking mechanics, introduce additional ranges and connect skills through simple scenarios. Repetition makes it easier to act without trying to remember a long sequence.
Ongoing development
Maintain physical skills, work at gradually increasing but controlled pressure, address weaknesses and adapt training as fitness, confidence and goals change.
Between lessons
Practise only the safe solo exercises agreed with Paul, such as stance, movement, observation habits and fitness. Partner techniques should not be improvised without appropriate control.
Training for everyday environments
Situational awareness for daily life in London
Useful self-defence begins before physical contact. Lessons can examine how attention, positioning, communication and route choices change across familiar London environments without creating fear or treating every stranger as a threat.
London presents very different environments within a single journey. A crowded platform requires calm positioning and awareness of movement around you. A quieter walk home places more importance on lighting, route choice and noticing changes early. At work or inside a venue, staff, colleagues, reception points and security may provide safer options than trying to manage an uncomfortable person alone.
The aim is not constant vigilance. Good awareness should support confident daily life rather than create anxiety. Training looks at simple habits—looking up, knowing where exits or help are, keeping enough space to move and trusting a genuine feeling that a situation is deteriorating. Physical responses are considered only within that wider picture.
Commuting and stations
Notice crowd flow, exits, staff, barriers and how headphones or a phone can reduce awareness. Practise creating room without escalating routine contact.
Walking and running
Consider lighting, busier routes, available businesses, changes behind you and where you could move if someone’s behaviour causes concern.
Workplaces and venues
Identify security, colleagues, reception points and ways to end an uncomfortable interaction before it becomes isolated or more difficult to manage.
At home and near home
Discuss entrances, keys, lighting, calling for help and avoiding distraction when arriving or leaving, without giving misleading guarantees.
Age-appropriate private coaching
Self-defence training for teenagers and under-18s
Young people should not receive an adult lesson with the language changed. The coaching must reflect their age, maturity, confidence, physical development and the situations they may encounter at school, while travelling or in social settings.
For a teenager, confidence should not be confused with aggression. A useful lesson helps a young person stand and speak more clearly, recognise when behaviour is becoming unsafe and understand that leaving or asking an adult for help is a strong decision. Physical drills can build coordination and belief, but they are never presented as permission to settle arguments through fighting.
Paul is Enhanced DBS checked, and all enquiries and arrangements for an under-18 are made with a parent or guardian. Before training begins, the proposed location, supervision, lesson objectives and any relevant needs are discussed. Contact and intensity are controlled according to the young person rather than copied from an adult programme.
Private coaching may complement wider support, but it cannot replace safeguarding action. If bullying, abuse, threats or a serious welfare concern are involved, the appropriate parent, school, police or specialist service must remain part of the response.
Parent or guardian
Paul is Enhanced DBS checked. Enquiries and arrangements for an under-18 are made with a parent or guardian, with expectations, location and the proposed lesson format agreed in advance.
Confidence without aggression
Training reinforces clear boundaries, calm communication, leaving early and seeking help. It does not encourage a young person to settle disputes physically.
Controlled contact
Physical drills are supervised and scaled appropriately. Technique, balance and decision-making take priority over force, fatigue or proving toughness.
When another service is needed
Coaching does not replace safeguarding action, school support, police advice, counselling or specialist help when a young person is experiencing bullying, abuse or an immediate threat.
Mobile coaching across London
Where can private women’s self-defence training take place?
Paul provides appointment-only training rather than operating a public self-defence school. Sessions are arranged at a suitable location after the postcode, privacy, surface, space and practical requirements have been checked.
Home or garden
A convenient private option when there is enough safe, clear space for controlled movement and padwork.
Office or workplace
Private lessons or small-group classes may be possible in an appropriate office gym, studio or meeting space.
London park
Suitable outdoor areas can work for awareness, movement, fitness and controlled technical practice.
Private or hotel gym
Training may be possible where external coaches are permitted and the space is safe and available.
Areas commonly covered
Central London, the City, Westminster, Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Kensington, Notting Hill, Hammersmith, Fulham, Chiswick, Clapham, Battersea, Wandsworth, Canary Wharf, Greenwich, Blackheath, Bexley, Bromley and other agreed London locations.
Paul Carroll — founder of Boxing Trainer London and experienced private coach.
Paul combines competitive boxing, high-level athletics and sport science with more than 25 years of coaching. His approach is calm and practical, with techniques adapted to the individual rather than taught as a fixed routine.
Former British University Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Yes. Training begins with awareness, posture, balance and movement before physical techniques are introduced progressively.
Do you teach kicks and elbows?
Yes. Selected kicks and elbows can be taught with controlled pads and drills when they are appropriate for the client and lesson.
Do you cover grabs and holds?
Yes. Lessons can include controlled work on posture, balance, hand position and simple responses to selected common grabs and holds.
Can I train with a friend?
Yes. Two women can train together when their goals, experience, location and preferred lesson format are compatible.
Do you coach girls and under-18s?
Yes. Paul is Enhanced DBS checked. Girls and under-18s can receive age-appropriate coaching arranged with a parent or guardian.
Where can training take place?
At an agreed London home, office, suitable park, residential or hotel gym, or private space. Send your postcode so suitability can be checked.
How much does training cost?
The displayed private-session rates are £75, £85 or £95 depending on eligibility and booking option.
How do I enquire?
Use the contact form or WhatsApp Paul with your goals, age where relevant, postcode, preferred times and proposed training space.
Do I need to be fit first?
No. The pace, rest periods and physical demands are adapted to your current ability. Fitness can improve through training, but the first priority is learning clearly and safely.
What should I wear?
Wear comfortable sports clothing and secure training shoes suitable for the agreed surface. Bring water and tell Paul about relevant injuries or medical considerations before training.
Is sparring required?
No. Beginners are not required to spar. Skills are developed through coaching, pads, movement exercises and controlled partner drills appropriate to the lesson.
Do you teach defence against weapons?
The core advice is to prioritise distance, escape, compliance where appropriate and emergency help. No short technique can make a weapon situation safe, and the page does not promise otherwise.
Your next step
Plan your private women’s self-defence lesson
Tell Paul who the training is for, your London location, availability, experience and what you want help with. He will confirm whether the proposed arrangement is suitable.
Updated August 2026 · Private coaching across London
Train privately with Paul Carroll — former British University Heavyweight Boxing Champion, former Great Britain international decathlete and an experienced one-to-one coach.
Women’s Self-Defence London: Practical Lessons Built Around You
Private, beginner-friendly coaching for women who want greater awareness, clearer boundaries, confident movement and practical responses without an intimidating public-class environment.
5.0 from 54 Google reviews · 25+ years coaching · Equipment provided
WhatsApp Paul
Train individually or with a friend · Girls and under-18s supported · Enhanced DBS checked
1-to-1
Private coaching
Calm, controlled and adapted to you
£75–£95
Session rates
Depending on booking option
25+
Years coaching
Boxing, fitness and confidence
Beginner
Friendly
No previous training required
Quick answer
What is private women’s self-defence training?
Private women’s self-defence training teaches awareness, movement and practical options in a controlled lesson built around one person’s age, confidence and experience.
The aim is not to encourage fighting. Through Boxing Trainer London, Paul teaches how to notice risk, communicate clearly, manage distance, move towards safety and practise simple physical responses when avoidance is no longer possible.
Awareness first
Recognise changing situations, exits, obstacles and opportunities to leave early.
Calm boundaries
Use posture, voice and positioning to set a boundary without escalating unnecessarily.
Practical movement
Build balance, footwork and safer angles so you are not fixed in one place.
Controlled practice
Learn progressively without intimidation, uncontrolled contact or pressure to spar.
Choose the right format
Private women’s self-defence lessons or a public class?
Both can be useful, but they solve different problems. This service is designed for women who want individual attention, discretion and lesson content selected around their confidence, experience and personal concerns.
Choose private training when
Choose a public class when
Choose a private class when
What you can learn
A practical self-defence toolkit
The content is selected for the individual. Techniques are introduced slowly, practised with control and placed within the wider priority of avoiding danger and reaching safety.
Situational awareness
Scanning, safer positioning, recognising warning signs and making earlier decisions.
Distance and movement
Stance, balance, angles, protective hand position and moving towards an exit.
Punches and defence
Simple boxing strikes, guarding, covering and moving rather than trading punches.
Kicks and elbows
Controlled practice of selected close- and longer-range options where appropriate.
Grabs and holds
Posture, balance, hand positioning and simple responses to selected common grabs.
Stress and decisions
Short, supervised drills that connect technique with calm thinking and safe exits.
Important: no self-defence method can guarantee safety. Training develops options, awareness and confidence; leaving, seeking help and contacting the emergency services remain priorities when possible.
This priorities-first approach is consistent with Metropolitan Police advice to trust your instincts, create distance and look for a way to leave a violent situation. For general guidance, read the Met’s violent-situation safety advice. Questions about lawful force depend on the circumstances; see the official GOV.UK reasonable-force guidance rather than treating a training page as legal advice.
Boxing skills in context
How boxing supports practical Women’s self-defence
Boxing develops several abilities that transfer well to self-defence. A stable stance helps you remain balanced. Footwork teaches you to change position instead of becoming fixed directly in front of someone. Padwork improves coordination, distance judgement and the ability to protect yourself while responding under pressure. Just as importantly, regular coaching can make movement feel more familiar, so a beginner is less likely to freeze simply because a drill becomes faster or less predictable.
However, boxing alone is not a complete answer to personal safety. A boxing contest has rules, gloves, a referee, a clear start and a known opponent. A real confrontation may involve restricted space, poor surfaces, obstacles, other people or an opportunity to leave before anything physical happens. That is why private women’s self-defence lessons add situational awareness, verbal boundaries, escape routes, selected kicks and elbows, and controlled work involving common grabs or holds.
The objective is not to turn every situation into a fight. Physical technique sits near the end of the decision-making process, after noticing risk, communicating clearly and trying to create distance. If physical action becomes necessary, the purpose is to protect yourself long enough to reach safety—not remain present to win an exchange.
This distinction is particularly important for beginners. Paul can use genuine boxing skills without pretending that sport and self-defence are identical. The result is practical training grounded in movement and technique, but taught within the wider context of avoidance, proportionate action and safe exit.
Individual coaching
Who chooses private women’s self-defence training?
Women enquire for different reasons. Some have never trained and want a private introduction without feeling watched or compared with a class. Others want to address confidence while commuting, exercising outdoors, travelling or managing unwanted attention. The lesson is shaped around the individual rather than assuming every woman has the same concern.
Complete beginners
Start privately without needing previous boxing, martial-arts or fitness experience.
Women travelling in London
Explore awareness, boundaries and safer decisions around commuting, walking, work and social settings.
Girls and under-18s
Age-appropriate coaching focused on awareness, boundaries and confidence, arranged with a parent or guardian. Paul is Enhanced DBS checked.
Broader self-defence training
This page concentrates on women. The main service page explains private training for all adults, teenagers, families and small groups.
All private self-defence training →
Train with a friend
Two women can enquire about learning together when their goals, experience, location and preferred format are compatible.
Your first lesson
How a private women’s self-defence session works
A first session is not a test and there is no requirement to prove toughness. Paul begins by understanding why you have enquired and what experience you already have. The lesson then moves from simple foundations into selected techniques, with the pace adjusted throughout according to how comfortably and safely you are learning.
01
Discuss your goals
Talk through your experience, confidence, concerns and what you want from training.
02
Movement foundations
Establish posture, balance, protective positioning and movement towards safer space.
03
Selected techniques
Practise suitable strikes, defence or responses to grabs with close supervision.
04
Simple scenarios
Connect awareness, boundaries, movement and technique in controlled drills.
Sessions can take place at an agreed London home, office, suitable park, residential or hotel gym, or private space. Paul confirms whether the proposed location is practical before booking.
Realistic progression
What can you learn from self-defence lessons?
There is no honest promise that a fixed number of lessons will prepare someone for every situation. Progress depends on previous experience, confidence, coordination, practice and the range of subjects being covered. A useful programme builds a small number of dependable habits before adding complexity.
Repetition matters because a long list of clever-looking techniques is difficult to recall under pressure. Early lessons therefore return to the same foundations: posture, balance, hand position, movement, clear boundaries and recognising when to leave. As these become more familiar, Paul can add variations without losing the central purpose of the training.
Progress is also individual. One client may need time to become comfortable making contact with pads, while another may move confidently but need to improve awareness and decision-making. The value of one-to-one coaching is that the programme can respond to what the person actually needs rather than forcing everyone through the same timetable.
One introductory lesson
Understand the priorities, assess your starting point and practise basic posture, movement, boundaries and a small number of controlled physical actions. It is an introduction, not a complete system.
Several focused lessons
Repeat the foundations, improve striking mechanics, introduce additional ranges and connect skills through simple scenarios. Repetition makes it easier to act without trying to remember a long sequence.
Ongoing development
Maintain physical skills, work at gradually increasing but controlled pressure, address weaknesses and adapt training as fitness, confidence and goals change.
Between lessons
Practise only the safe solo exercises agreed with Paul, such as stance, movement, observation habits and fitness. Partner techniques should not be improvised without appropriate control.
Training for everyday environments
Situational awareness for daily life in London
Useful self-defence begins before physical contact. Lessons can examine how attention, positioning, communication and route choices change across familiar London environments without creating fear or treating every stranger as a threat.
London presents very different environments within a single journey. A crowded platform requires calm positioning and awareness of movement around you. A quieter walk home places more importance on lighting, route choice and noticing changes early. At work or inside a venue, staff, colleagues, reception points and security may provide safer options than trying to manage an uncomfortable person alone.
The aim is not constant vigilance. Good awareness should support confident daily life rather than create anxiety. Training looks at simple habits—looking up, knowing where exits or help are, keeping enough space to move and trusting a genuine feeling that a situation is deteriorating. Physical responses are considered only within that wider picture.
Commuting and stations
Notice crowd flow, exits, staff, barriers and how headphones or a phone can reduce awareness. Practise creating room without escalating routine contact.
Walking and running
Consider lighting, busier routes, available businesses, changes behind you and where you could move if someone’s behaviour causes concern.
Workplaces and venues
Identify security, colleagues, reception points and ways to end an uncomfortable interaction before it becomes isolated or more difficult to manage.
At home and near home
Discuss entrances, keys, lighting, calling for help and avoiding distraction when arriving or leaving, without giving misleading guarantees.
Age-appropriate private coaching
Self-defence training for teenagers and under-18s
Young people should not receive an adult lesson with the language changed. The coaching must reflect their age, maturity, confidence, physical development and the situations they may encounter at school, while travelling or in social settings.
For a teenager, confidence should not be confused with aggression. A useful lesson helps a young person stand and speak more clearly, recognise when behaviour is becoming unsafe and understand that leaving or asking an adult for help is a strong decision. Physical drills can build coordination and belief, but they are never presented as permission to settle arguments through fighting.
Paul is Enhanced DBS checked, and all enquiries and arrangements for an under-18 are made with a parent or guardian. Before training begins, the proposed location, supervision, lesson objectives and any relevant needs are discussed. Contact and intensity are controlled according to the young person rather than copied from an adult programme.
Private coaching may complement wider support, but it cannot replace safeguarding action. If bullying, abuse, threats or a serious welfare concern are involved, the appropriate parent, school, police or specialist service must remain part of the response.
Parent or guardian
Paul is Enhanced DBS checked. Enquiries and arrangements for an under-18 are made with a parent or guardian, with expectations, location and the proposed lesson format agreed in advance.
Confidence without aggression
Training reinforces clear boundaries, calm communication, leaving early and seeking help. It does not encourage a young person to settle disputes physically.
Controlled contact
Physical drills are supervised and scaled appropriately. Technique, balance and decision-making take priority over force, fatigue or proving toughness.
When another service is needed
Coaching does not replace safeguarding action, school support, police advice, counselling or specialist help when a young person is experiencing bullying, abuse or an immediate threat.
Mobile coaching across London
Where can private women’s self-defence training take place?
Paul provides appointment-only training rather than operating a public self-defence school. Sessions are arranged at a suitable location after the postcode, privacy, surface, space and practical requirements have been checked.
Home or garden
A convenient private option when there is enough safe, clear space for controlled movement and padwork.
Office or workplace
Private lessons or small-group classes may be possible in an appropriate office gym, studio or meeting space.
London park
Suitable outdoor areas can work for awareness, movement, fitness and controlled technical practice.
Private or hotel gym
Training may be possible where external coaches are permitted and the space is safe and available.
Areas commonly covered
Central London, the City, Westminster, Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Kensington, Notting Hill, Hammersmith, Fulham, Chiswick, Clapham, Battersea, Wandsworth, Canary Wharf, Greenwich, Blackheath, Bexley, Bromley and other agreed London locations.
Check London areas covered →
Clear session rates
Private women’s self-defence training prices
£75
Introductory rate
Available subject to eligibility, location and current availability.
£85
Package rate
A lower per-session rate when booking an eligible training package.
£95
Pay as you go
Book individual private sessions without committing to a package.
View training packages
About your coach
Paul Carroll
Paul combines competitive boxing, high-level athletics and sport science with more than 25 years of coaching. His approach is calm and practical, with techniques adapted to the individual rather than taught as a fixed routine.
Paul’s coaching has been featured in Women’s Health UK and HELLO! Magazine.
Frequently asked questions
Private women’s self-defence training London FAQs
Is this suitable for beginners?
Yes. Training begins with awareness, posture, balance and movement before physical techniques are introduced progressively.
Do you teach kicks and elbows?
Yes. Selected kicks and elbows can be taught with controlled pads and drills when they are appropriate for the client and lesson.
Do you cover grabs and holds?
Yes. Lessons can include controlled work on posture, balance, hand position and simple responses to selected common grabs and holds.
Can I train with a friend?
Yes. Two women can train together when their goals, experience, location and preferred lesson format are compatible.
Do you coach girls and under-18s?
Yes. Paul is Enhanced DBS checked. Girls and under-18s can receive age-appropriate coaching arranged with a parent or guardian.
Where can training take place?
At an agreed London home, office, suitable park, residential or hotel gym, or private space. Send your postcode so suitability can be checked.
How much does training cost?
The displayed private-session rates are £75, £85 or £95 depending on eligibility and booking option.
How do I enquire?
Use the contact form or WhatsApp Paul with your goals, age where relevant, postcode, preferred times and proposed training space.
Do I need to be fit first?
No. The pace, rest periods and physical demands are adapted to your current ability. Fitness can improve through training, but the first priority is learning clearly and safely.
What should I wear?
Wear comfortable sports clothing and secure training shoes suitable for the agreed surface. Bring water and tell Paul about relevant injuries or medical considerations before training.
Is sparring required?
No. Beginners are not required to spar. Skills are developed through coaching, pads, movement exercises and controlled partner drills appropriate to the lesson.
Do you teach defence against weapons?
The core advice is to prioritise distance, escape, compliance where appropriate and emergency help. No short technique can make a weapon situation safe, and the page does not promise otherwise.
Your next step
Plan your private women’s self-defence lesson
Tell Paul who the training is for, your London location, availability, experience and what you want help with. He will confirm whether the proposed arrangement is suitable.
WhatsApp Paul
Complete beginners welcome · Equipment provided · Call 07790 210 031
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