Rapid Combat Systems

After many years of study in numerous martial arts Master Pat O'Malley developed his version of the Rapid Combat System in 1993. Based heavily on the empty hand applications from Filipino Martial Arts Rapid Combat also encompasses many aspects of combat fighting skills from Muay Thai, Silat, Jeet Kune Do, Boxing, Catch Wrestling and Kenpo systems that Master O'Malley spent many years studying.

Known for it's effectiveness both on the street and within various full contact arena's, over the years many of the people who have studied this system have used it's skills and principles working as Securtity Personel on the doors of night clubs and bars and as serving Police Officers as well as in the sporting arena of Muay Thai and MMA (Vale Tudo), and Shootfighting events.

Not only is Rapid Combat a great empty hand martial arts system that can be taught to people of all ages, it is also a great way to improve your health and stay in shape.

With 30 years of expeariance in the martial arts and working for many years as a door supervisor in night clubs and bars the Rapid Combat System has been developed from real life expeariances of combat on the street and in the full contact martial arts arena.
We dont claim to hold any secrets as we beleive there are none. What we teach is practical, no nonsense combat skills that can enhance your life and give you those much needed reactions to deal with real life encounters should they arise.

Another branch of the system teaches a method specifically designed to deal with edged weapons attact on the street as we beleive that Self Defence against anyone, especailly someone armed with an edged weapon, has to be simple, effective and work on your natural reflexes to increase your chance of survival.

The Rapid Response System has been developed by two of Europe's leading weapons experts (Pat & Lucy O'Malley) based not only on their vast knowldege of edged weapons combat that is taught within the Filipino Martial Arts, but also from their experiance in dealing with real life encounters and the realities of having to deal with edged weapon attack both on the street and working as security personel in tough night clubs and bars.

They have over the years taught many Law Enforcement Officers and Security Personel from around the world including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and the Philippines to name but a few.

They have developed a simple and effective self defence system based on their personal expeariance and the expeariances of those L.E.O.'s (Law Enforcement Officers) and Security Personel that they have taught. A system that is used by applying simple and effective reactions to sudden unprevoked attack using your natural flinch responses to your best advantage.

Whether you are confronted with edged or blunt weapons, fists or feet there is no longer any need to learn several different methods simply because a person does or does not have this or that weapon, now there is one simple system that can be taught to you in a very short space of time and no martial arts expeariance is required.

The Rapid Response System is taught in an easy to learn modular method of training keeping you within the laws of self defence using as much or as little reasonable force as is required to deal with any given situation as it arises that is not only suited to Security Personel and L.E.O.'s (Law Enforcement Officers) alike but is ideal for the general public too.

This simple self defence system has been tried and tested over a number of years and has been accepted as one of the most effective systems to be taught to the general public, Security Personel and L.E.O.'s (Law Enforcement Officers) around the world.