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Tim Larkin, American Self-Defence Instructor, Banned From UK By Home Secretary Theresa May.
Tim had been invited to speak at "The Martial Arts Show" conference in Birmingham on May 12 and 13, 2012. As he attempted to board a flight to the U.K. yesterday in Las Vegas he was given a letter from the U.K. Border Agency saying he would not be allowed in.
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‘Kill-or-be-killed’ self-defense guru Tim Larkin banned from UK
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Black Belt Magazine, Feb. 2012
When Violence IS the Answer, Target Focus Training is Your Best Bet for Survival
Interview by Robert W. Young
Photos by Robert Reiff
Tim Larkin, Black Belt’s 2011 Self-Defense Instructor of the Year, knows how to get people’s attention. One of his favorite ways involves rattling off a statement that just happens to form the nucleus of Target Focus Training, the fighting system he founded: “Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, it’s the only answer.” Intrigued? Want to find out how this notion fits into Larkin’s self defense paradigm and how it can improve your survival readiness? If so, you’re guaranteed to find this interview enlightening.
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Muscle & Fitness Magazine, Nov/2010
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Fighting Fit Magazine, 11/2010
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Vegas Magazine, December 2009
Head Banger — Tim Larkin is deadly serious about your protection…
by Michael B. Dougherty
In a matter of days, Tim Larkin has managed to get both a rabbi and a councilman in the English town of Slough to denounce him in the British Media. But when you travel the world preaching a mantra of counteracting violence with violence, you’re bound to offend some sensibilities.
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Forbes Magazine, Sept. 2009
Body Maneuvers for Businessmen
By Javier Espinoza
Tim Larkin schools businessmen in defending themselves in life-threatening situations — teaching them how to kill if it means saving their lives.
SLOUGH — Most days Tareq Sholi spends his time sifting through numbers as an accountant at mining giant Rio Tinto.
But today Sholi, 30, is simulating punches to his sparring partner’s neck, chest and groin. It’s all part of a two-day crash-course aimed at making businessman like Sholi as versatile in self-defense as they are in cutting deals or crunching numbers.
London Financial Times, Oct. 2009
School of hard knocks
By Emma Jacobs
Five women and 70 men clad in jeans and T-shirts are throwing each other on to the floor of a stark white room whose windows look out on to corrugated roofs and electricity pylons.
After 10 minutes, Tim Larkin, a broad-shouldered man dressed entirely in black and with a Celtic tattoo on one arm, steps to the front, stops the proceedings and demands the room’s attention so he can demonstrate the next move: how to gouge a man’s eye out. The reason? He wants his audience to be prepared to cause serious damage to anyone who attacks them.
Black Belt Magazine, August 2007
Reality Fightings Cardinal Rule: Train Your Brain
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South China Post, 2006
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Black Belt Magazine, June 2006
Penetration, Rotation, Injury: The Triad of Effective Self Protection
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Black Belt Magazine, August 2005
Target Focus Training: Does It Hit The Mark?
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Forbes Magazine, Sept. 2009
Body Maneuvers for Businessmen
By Javier Espinoza
Tim Larkin schools businessmen in defending themselves in life-threatening situations — teaching them how to kill if it means saving their lives.
