Neil Walton has been studying martial arts for over 25 years. He began by practising the Korean art of Tae Kwon Do which he studied for 10 years. Whilst studying this art he became interested in the street aspects of personal safety and self defence.
Neil began to cross train in a variety of martial arts for self defence, primarily training in the full contact arts of Thai Boxing, western boxing and submission grappling. This led to Neil competing internationally in Thai Boxing and mixed martial arts as well as other limited rule disciplines.
He has fought under 'A' class full Muay Thai rules and some of his bouts have been televised on programmes on Sky Sports, Eurosport and Channel Five networks. He has trained overseas in Thailand, Australia and Israel, training Muay Thai Boxing in its native land, Mixed Martial Arts and Kick Boxing in Australia and Krav Maga in Israel. He has trained for numerous years under the guidance of Paul Hamilton at Darlington Boxing and Martial Arts Academy and is currently a registered instructor at the gym.
Neil has trained with numerous other instructors over the years including UFC fighters Matt 'The Terror' Serra and Kenny 'Kenflo' Florian, British Combat Association founders Geoff Thompson and Peter Consterdine and Jeet Kune Do instructors Rick Young and Larry Hartsell to name but a few.
He holds the rank of instructor with the British Combat Association and has been a front line police officer for over 15 years. As part of his career in the police service he has spent over ten years as a police personal safety instructor teaching all aspects of police self defence and 6 years as part of a tactical firearms team. This gives Neil invaluable knowledge in the real life aspects of self protection.
Since December 2008 Neil has achieved instructor status in the tried and tested Israeli self defence system of Krav Maga with the Inernational Krav Maga Federation. He has studied this system with the worldwide known IKMF and has been lucky enough to be trained by Eyal Yanoliv and Avi Moyal the Chairman of the International Krav Maga Federation as well as receiving tuition from other IKMF Global insructors.
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