Recently, combative expert Tim Larkin, who was Black Belt Magazine's 2011 Self-Defense Instructor of the year was at the airport in Las Vegas, ready to board a plan to the UK, and was denied entry into the country. The reasoning was that he was deemed a security risk because he was planning to teach his program. Mr Larkin gets lots of flak in general for people misinterpreting and misunderstanding his program. In essence, he teaches human destruction, but what everybody seems to neglect is that he prefaces that it is only proper to use his information in the face of criminal, asocial violence. Regardless of these facts, Mr. Larkin is no longer making people safer in the UK, which is unfortunate for those who really need training. To reiterate what fellow PDR coach Jake Steinmann said, the take home here for self-defense instructors is to carefully put out your message as to what it is you are teaching and why your students need it.
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