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...
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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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Learn the only personal protection program specifically designed for women recommended by both the CLSC and the Montreal Sexual Assault Center...
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...
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...
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...
This video features Senshido's early beginnings from when the school first opened in 1994. (Warning: High level of contact.)
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.
Covers: the psychology of violence, the 5 Principles of Physical Retaliation, natural stances, the passive stance, reflexive responses and tactical street defense drills.
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'...
Rich's Tips n' Rants 3 goes beyond verbal defusing and tackles violence at the social roots of confrontations...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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..
A must for those who put themselves in harms way (security personnel, bouncers, law enforcement officers)...
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...
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From a blog post dated 16th November 2008:
Hey everybody, just got done participating in a seminar at our gym on Saturday, and let me tell you it was a real eye opener.
The man teaching it was Richard Dimitri of Canada, he is the founder of Senshido,a realistic based self defense system who's primary directive is enhancing your survivability.
He came to teach a "Close Quarter Conceptual Tool" that really works for the street, this tool is called "The Shredder" and let me tell you it will put fear and terror in the hearts of the violent if they encounter it.
Now don't get me wrong, Rich is a very nice person and went above and beyond to teach us this valuable information and he did it without any ego or bravado.
As a matter of fact right up front he told all of us that if we just came here to learn new techniques to fight and kick someones ass, then we were at the wrong seminar.
There were many Law Enforcement Personnel as well as Martial Artists participating at the seminar and they all enjoyed the information that was taught that day.
As for me and my students, we were all impressed with what Rich brought to the table and let me tell you it takes allot to impress them.
After going over the physiological and behavioral concepts of the "Shredder" we got into the physical aspects by learning through progressive drills demonstrated by Rich and his assistant Ted Williams.
Then we would work the drills with at least three different partners and even Rich himself, to get the concepts down.
The great thing about the "Shredder" is that you can add it to your present fighting system no matter what it is immediately and not miss a step.
Rich was constantly working with everyone correcting any mistakes while performing the progressive "Shredder" drills.
He even extended the seminar to make sure everyone got the "Shredder" down and answered every question asked.
For those who have never experienced the "Shredder" get to one of Rich's seminars as fast as you can and learn this life saving tool or get the DVD's and manual.
Don't just learn to survive, learn to prevail.
You can contact Rich at https://www.senshido.com/ or at RDimitri@Senshido.com
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[AffiliatesHome]Rich Dimitri’s Self-Defense Tips N Rants Vol. 4
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 the differences between teaching those who are vulnerable and victimized in societies to those who already possess the predatory mindset, all in his usual straight in your face, unapologetic and honest fashion.
Rich Dimitri’s Self-Defense Tips N Rants Vol. 3
Rich's Tips n' Rants 3 goes beyond verbal defusing and tackles violence at the social roots of confrontations. Rich shares his insights on why looking at the much bigger picture and dissecting things layer by layer into the origins that trigger social violence brings to light certain facets that enhances one's personal awareness and verbal defusing skills to not only avoid and if necessary, successfully de-escalate a potentially violent confrontation, but how to also increase your abilities to do so without contributing and perpetuating unnecessary violence.
Rich Dimitri’s Self-Defense Tips N Rants Vol. 2
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', the ability to interpret your opponent's energy through the sense of touch (one of the 5 principles of physical retaliation) in great detail including 'sticky hands' principles, natural stances, tool and target development and knife defense.
Rich Dimitri’s Self-Defense Tips N Rants Vol. 1
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. Topics include: Preemptive striking off various natural stances during verbal defusing, the ‘Italian Hands’ concept, differentiating a good guy having a bad day from a ‘bad guy’, the ripple effect and more.
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Were You There? (1997-2019)
1999 to roughly 2002 style Senshido T-shirts, this one still owned today by Senshido instructor Marc Rizkallah .
From 1997 to 2019, I personally taught Senshido workshops and seminars in over 22 countries and to many cities and towns to enumerate. There are many pics which were lost over the years as I have moved as often as I have visited differing countries so several workshop pics have been lost along the way. We will update this page (along with the site in general) as we come across more. Here are some from international workshops, bootcamps and classes; see if you can spot yourself or anyone you know:
1999: Greater Toronto Area. Workshop hosted by Troy White. I'm joined by 2 of my crew Helen Stranzl, Lee Castellani, Valerie Potvin and Lucas who's family name has escaped me.
2000: Zombie Squad Boot Camp Nun's Island Montreal.
2001: Maryland USA, Combat Coalition workshop with Sammy Franco and Ian 'Vampiro' Hodgkinson. Alos in the pic are International team members Robert and Angela Toscano.
2004: First UK, London England workshop hosted by Senshido team members Les Turpin and Adam Cooper. Take a close look at the pic, some big UK names there at the time including the notorious Lee Morrison of Urban Combatives, who ended up giving me the most amazing, detailed review I'd ever gotten at the time on the Shredder concept.
2004 Zombie Squad Boot Camp
Sydney Australia, 2007. I'm dead center with the black T-shirt and dislocated shoulder courtesy of Big Joe Saunders of Managing Violence Podcast. Joe, Being roughly 6 foot 4 and over 200 pounds at the time we met, I had asked for the biggest and most experienced grappler in the room, Joe volunteered being a black belt in Judo amongst other combative disciplines he had trained in, and came at me as I asked. He took me down with a throw and landed on top of me, as I landed on my right shoulder completely dislocating it. I kept Shredding him as he attempted to submit me to no avail while on the ground. We both got up and he was stunned at the efficiency of just a mild, demoed Shred could so annoyingly stop him from submitting a guy literally half his size. Within a year Joe became a Senshido International team member, and friend. Went to the hospital after the seminar. Good times, good times.
Montreal Headquarters 2002: Senshido group class, what a great group.
Finland 2007: Senshido International team member Ville Kaivonen and I with Finnish Counter Terrorist Unit.
2007: Finnish Counter Terrorist Unit working Shredder drills during workshop.
2007: Senshido Team member Adam Cooper and I with the Finland Presidential Security team.
2008: Auckland New Zealand, with Senshido International team members Athena and Phil Thompson. Phil since operates PROTECT in New Zealand.
2006 Mildord Connecticut USA, Senshido International team member Rick Capozzi with the cap behind me after I spit in his mouth during a demo then told him I had mononucleosis lololol.... true story.
Washington DC USA, Senshido International team member Dominic Alexander from Tucson Arizona and Glenn Wilson (then from DC) and I teaching for a Krav Maga academy and their friends.
Sydney Australia, 2008 Senshido International team members Dominic O'Neil, Athena Hansen and Phil Thompson. Phil cracked the bridge of my nose with a nice forearm strike. The least he could do for the hell I put him (and Dom, and all my team members really) during demos over the decades lol...
2008 San Francisco, California, USA: Senshido International Ted Wilkinson and I at the late, great Daniel Sambrano's place.
2009 Heliopolis Cairo, Egypt: I worked in Cairo with 3 International women's movements including their then president's wife's. This was the very first of many I taught across Egypt until their 2010 revolution when my wife and I split.
Liege, Belgium in 2007 or 08 with Senshido International team members Rod Fiardi, Eric Lemaire and 'Lapin' (privacy maintained for reasons of security)
Liege Belgium 2009 with Rod, Eric and Lapin.
Sheffield England, 2007 with Senshido International team members Craig and Debbie Walsh at Craig n Deb's gym.
Sheffield England workshop day 2 with Craig n Deb.
Queensland Australia, 2008 or 09, with Senshido International team member Damien Martin.
Queensland Australia, 2008, early 2009 I'd say. No recollection, if someone knows, let Trev Know and he'll edit it.
Sydney Australia 2010 with Senshido team member Dominic O'Neil.
Melbourne Australia 2011 with Senshido International team members Jim Armstrong of RAW Combatives and New Zealand's Phil Thompson, at my left is my ex wife and my boy's mum, Tania Garby.
Melbourne Australia 2011 Shredder workshop, with Phil, Jim and room full of talented martial artists.
Queensland Australia 2011, at Southern Cross Martial Arts, stuck in the middle between team members Damien Martin and Big Joe Saunders.
Oshawa Ontario, Canada, 2012 at Synergy Martial Arts hosted by owner John Kolakovic, with Senshido International team members Malachi Bond (Alaska USA) and Laval Martin (Toronto Canada) along with good friend and many times partner in crime Chris Roberts of Safe International.
Left to Right are Chris Roberts, Laval Martin, Malachi Bond, Glenn Wilson, Shaka, Brian and John Kolakovik, of Synergy Martial arts at his school after the workshop.
2014, Montreal Canada, at new Senshido location run by then Senshido instructor and international team leader, Wes Derequito, with Senshido Instructors Marc Rizkallah, Wes, Sharie Derequito, Richard Rosetto, and Guy Razi.
Paris France, 2017 with both the German and Belgian Senshido crew, hosted by William and Fabienne Hernandez and Benjamin Giraudon wonderful people, legendary times.
Bochum Germany, 2017 with my German and Belgium brothers and sisters. I'm dead center with my present wife and partner Pamela Armitage.
MORE TO COME AS I GET MY HANDS ON THEM - Rich.
