My involvement in Unarmed Self-Defence stretches from my primary school days when I was involved in JKA Shotokan Karate, then my training in the Police, later in life my involvement in Tenshinkan Karate (SAPS Free State Team + Tenshinkan 4 Nations Championships) and then it finally really got direction when I met Jerry & Wilna Oosthuizen of the 'National Crome Buster Self-Defence Campaign'.

Crime Buster is an NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) who provides unarmed self-defence training to Woman & Children in South-Africa, that was started by Jerry & Wilna quite a couple of years ago.

After all the training in karate with local as well as Japanese sensei, I was not ready for self-defence on the streets. Only after I did the Basic Crime Buster Course with Jerry & Wilna did I feel ready to defend myself and teach others to do it as well.

I had the opportunity, about six years after my initial training in Crime Buster's techniques, to do the updated course and to help present it to a few thousand school children and teachers in my area with some of Crime Buster's best coaches.

I am still involved with presenting different training sessions with Jerry & Wilna as well as a few course groups I run on my own here in my hometown from time to time.