biglee

iKedo smp, is one most doormen should adopt, the art of learning all that helps, ive done door work for 10 years now, learnig how to keep my cool and use various technques to dissable the body is a great self-defence tool, however a good doorman will never need to defend himself or others... he should be able to diffuse a situation by simply useinhg his brain...
good luck,

i teach the course and to be honest unless your a brain dead monkey then you will pass.

BigErn

Work is pretty easy to find up here as there are always new places opening, I started by finding out a local bar was loosing its doorstaff and had no replacement so me and a mate had a word with the manager and the next week I was working privately for them. After a few month there the offers of work, were and still are, always there every week. Another way to try is just to go and speak to the doorstaff of a place you frequent (not somewhere you have been thrown out of as this wouldnt be a good start). However dont just start babbling on to them when your out on the piss, make the effort to go one night when your sober and just ask about cover work or maybe ask if you can stand with them for a night and watch and have a bit banter, I did that before I decided to get my badge.


With regards to that, I used to go to Vale Tudo clases in my local gym for about a year and previous to that it was just your usual growing up brawls and scuffles. Im not a fighter, Ill talk my way out of it if I can but when it comes to it I can certainly hold my own. It is advisable that you know you can at least defend yourself when you need to before you even consider door work. Not just the fact you can knock someone out with one punch, theres far too many cameras waiting to catch you. The old skool days of dragging people into the back lane for a good hiding have gone now, restraint is the main thing these days, with the odd exception now and again if you know cameras cant see you.

G2 FSR

As above mate work on door's with a low profile, somewhere quiet or on a door maybe not in your area. Ive done it and to be honest it just pissed me off. It was mainly the younger generation that would cause the trouble, cant handle there drink nor there mouth alot of my mates still do it but are pissed of with it due to being on the drs every weekend but wont leave as its an extra income that pays well

RS500/364

Untrue drunk people dont listen and i know you can say it a 100 time THE TERM DRUNK DEAFNESS !!!

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iTrader: (3)

Thanks all sum really gd advice thanks
down my gym i c there is a room wif like punch bags etc... do u think they will do lesson etc...
or i might ask my aunt to give me a few lesson she is the hightest trained girl in the UK at Jewitsue (think that is how u spell it )

BigErn

There will be somewhere local to you that does some form of martial art/fighting/defence classes. Just ask at your gym and someone will know where they are.

Gary F

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BigErn out of curiosity whats your surname?

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cheers mate will do

Dan Cossie

I could help ya train mate or just kick ya in and teach you the old school way

but seriously jais you should consider it alot before you take the leap as if you are still young and naive....and prob got a big gob

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cheers

Dan Cossie

good editing mate

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na i dot act like a cunt like most of my mates and wanna a fight as soon as they hav a bit of lemonaid

BigErn

Why do you ask mate? Its not Bewick if thats what you were thinking.

Ern isnt my real name mate its a nickname I grew up with.

essex_jamie

my dad used to be a old school bouncer where you beat the shite out of people and literly through them out, he knows lots of bouncers/doorman and they say that its good money but pretty bad as in that you can take a beating quitr badly and sometmes worse but when you do anything to anyone they try getting you done by the police

Gary F

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I was thinking Bewick , but I didn't think he would drive a saff

nellyscossy

worked on the doors for a while as my second job ..used to get Ł12p/h and that was 7 years ago.....got smashed in the face with a knuckle duster and fractured my skull for my trouble(still waiting for surgery to put it right..bloody nhs).......didnt put me off though...the missuss didnt want me doing it anymore..too many tossers all want a pop at ya after 2 pints.........not bad if you get a door though can be a peice of piss!!!

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cant wait now but got to wait till im 18

BigErn

Nah hes got a Merc and a Laguna to run around in. Used to see him a lot in my local gym, sound bloke.

marky_g

not a carrear move to be honest

money is good for what it is

dose help to be i bigger bloke but not important

but u do ow have to be 21 at licencse are area spersific, i went for an exam to do the hipadrome in london with guardforce security from ilford, this would only cover me in london...apparently

emax is easy tho just dont the affraid to grab poeple

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cheers mate
i didnt no that

biglee

once you are registered with the SIA for a door supervisors licence you CAN work anywhere in the country

sartain87

do you mean you have to be 21 to be a doorman with an sia liciense?

if not im 19 now and applied for my liciense when i was 18 and can and have worked all over the uk with it

xr-stu

did my first night in one of the clubs in weston last saturday, was a good night, all the guys i worked with seemed sound, kicked off 4 or 5 times, i got stuck in and did what i could and i think the guys appreciated i was new to it so just followed their lead really. working again next weekend and basiclly been told ill be able to work as many nights as i want in the summer when it picks up so must have done something right!!

fucking good buzz though when it kicks off with a group of lads! never really had alot of major trouble at my old place, this was a big difference!

anyone know of first point security in somerset?

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sounds fun
so how old u got to be

marky_g

i asked about it when i was 18 and they said come back when ur 21 and i did

but if someone above has worked from the age of 18 maybe it was just company policy where i was gonna work???

xr-stu

ive had my badge and being doing doorwork since i was 19.

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all gd then

sartain87

i think its just some places are funny....

check out www.workingthedoors.co.uk

loads of companys on there looking for doorman etc and all info on training

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gd website cheers