GEOFF THOMPSON PASSENGERS

[@maggiemcnaught9650]

Geoff you are a wonderful mentor keeping it real brother. I have bought many copies of your books and given them to youngers. Stay blessed your a total legend.😍

[@Philo68]

Only Geoff could spend “5 years here one night”!

[@CraigWatts-l9n]

A legend.his words are so true.brutality always wins..

[@shovelhead4558]

Great teacher read his books watch his films well respected

[@johntynan8161]

this simulating real fighting is a revalation

[@scarred10]

I saw this at the time but was well aware of geoff from his combat magazine articles before that.

[@selfpolicing]

Thanks for the video! Realy good! Mr Thompson is the real deal!

[@robparker7749]

when people do (Door supervisor) courses these days they should be made to watch one of these animal day videos or take part in a session just like it, because although society wants doormen to act a certain way the public full of drink and drugs act pretty much the same way they always have done before.

[@jameshillblue]

Agreed. It's a shame that the SIA Physical Intervention training is essentially in--effective. Any technique will work on a compliant partner with minimal/zero resistance! Experienced lads will rise above this, but having been part of a PI course of recent, you see how the newbies gain false confidence, and that's where the real danger lies.

[@adamlittlewood1453]

I've done several of the animal days helped me out when I was on the door.geoff is a real gentleman as is Peter conserdine.

[@davidchastell3110]

I'm a proud Brown Belt in Geoff's Real Combat System under Al Peasland!!!

[@redrum4100]

I would be also, nice one.

[@brendontyree]

I used to absolutely love Passengers, have you got any more from that series dude?

[@redrum4100]

Good series, aye, but I'm afraid the answer is no, sorry.

[@geoguitar1950]

Yep. Real world action.

[@63doughnut]

Geoff was the one of the first martial artists to favour very realistic training for street fights, but there is so much more to the man than just a tough guy. How about him now being a BAFTA winning playright and also being as anti -violence as a Zen monk. We evolve.

[@78a67h]

Two serious issues to be taken account of: First, the bouncer is a special breed who craves for violence, and enjoys throwing his weight about, and jumps at the opportunity to hurt or maim others. Second, a good traditional Karate practitioner will devastate a "professional" bouncer in a fight in short order, even if the latter is used to the nightly violence and the blood.

[@redrum4100]

You are clueless. I worked over 3000 nights on the doors. Yes, there are SOME as you described. but my experience says these are in the minority. As for your "good traditional Karate practitioner" - I worked with a 3rd dan traditional karate practitioner who was a former European champion. Couldn't fight sleep in the real life.

[@78a67h]

@@redrum4100Whether your workmate was indeed a former Euro champion or so he claimed I will never know. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, not being good at the door is because he was not a thug. I worked a door too where a body search of "guests" revealed a multitude of concealed weapons, pretty rough stuff. I left the job a few weeks later, not because I couldn't fight, but because I didn't want to know.

[@redrum4100]

@78a67h Without wishing to grease my own pole too much, I was exceptionally good at the door, and that had nothing whatsoever to do with being a thug. Point in case, I once got stopped by the cops on my way home, obviously late at night/early hours of the morning, so just a routine stop. They asked me where I was heading so late. I explained I had just left the nightclub where I was head doorman. "Which club is that?" I told them, and got the reply "Oh, you must be [insert my real name]". I was surprised, and asked them how they knew of me. "Because your club is the only one we never get called to, and so we made enquiries as to who the head doorman was". Being nice is the way. This started when I was a skinny 20 year old, I visited a nightclub with a girlfriend. This huge bodybuilder doorman was showing everyone his muscles as I entered. I politely told him "Very impressive". He said, "You just remember that, sonny, cos I can kick your teeth in, in a heartbeat" (or words to that affect). I guarantee that he would not have beaten me in a fight, but I wasn't about to find out because that's not my thing. But that's the kind of scum you are talking about, and I vowed I would never be like that, and I never was. Luckily the overwhelming majority of the doormen I knew were nothing like that.

[@arthurwatts1680]

If Coventry is more dangerous than Glasgow or Marseilles, I sure as hell wont be setting foot in the West Midlands but experience tells me that pretty much every Pom I've encountered likes to tell tales of how rough the town they grew up in was/is. I dont doubt that Geoff has been in some nasty situations but he wouldnt have been a whole lot happier in either of the above and dozens more like them all over the world. I dont know what response times are for Police in Coventry but I'm assuming they dont expect to be handed cash on the spot simply to do their jobs - that isn't the case in several of the nightlife areas I've staggered into over the years.

[@whatayear]

Mate, believe me Cov was very rough and violent in the 80's and 90's. I'm a Brummie and they don't like us, but i was fortunate to know some of the hard men from the city so i was ok drinking there. However, the first line from the Specials track Blank Expression is "I walk in a bar and immediately i sense danger, you look at me girl as if i was some kind of a total stranger". That was me in the early 90's when i first walked into the Beer Engine bar, the whole pub went quiet and stared. Also the oft used saying 'been sent to Coventry' is when you're booted out of a circle of friends and this is the punishment. The lads, and a fair few lasses, were always looking to fight, always looking to outdo each other with whatever martial art fad was new on the block. Stabbings/slashings were commonplace, shootings nearly as bad and street violence common as changing your undercrackers. I've been to Glasgow, another rough place, but Cov was something else

[@arthurwatts1680]

@@whatayear Point taken. I know what you mean by everything stopping when you walk into a bar - I just turn around and walk out. Same-same boisterous groups of Brits or Aussies when I'm in Asia - God knows they will be among the first people on a plane when we can travel again ;)

[@basejumpingmonkey]

I'm from South London traveled through Coventry & Glasgow as well as other hot spots for violence quite a lot every year in the 80's and 90's working for national statistics Both places were rough AF but Glasgow was definitely rougher, nailing a copper to a tree was a level Coventry never reached also shooting teenage girls point blank in the face with a shot gun in ice cream van wars, if you go and look at actual hard data of police statistics on paper Glasgow had over double the murder rate of anywhere else which included more shootings and stabbings since they were way more direct with very little verbal or hesitation what coventry had was more verbal & fist fights etc which made it appear to be worse than it actually was

[@Jammil2477]

80s and 90s Coventry was a different world.

[@brothajack1993]

Bruce Lee is pathetic to Geoff.

[@redrum4100]

I would say they are equally important. I can't imagine seeking out Geoff's advice on self defence had I not seen Bruce Lee as a kid. I love both their teachings too. Geoff as you know has some powerful and brilliant things to say in his books, but Lee's "Be stronger than your excuses" is what runs through my mind whenever I want to punk out of something that really I shouldn't.

[@rajusehmi]

Don’t be silly