Veysel Guezel
Veysel Guezel
"90% of systems do not work in an adrenaline rush"

Veysel Guezel started in his early career to learn martial arts and self-defense. He gained experience in various martial arts disiplines such as karate, thai-boxing, kickboxing, as well as wing tsun. 

The effectiveness and the universality, as well as the quick ability to adapt it, convinced him later, to specialize in the military melee. He was trained as an instructor by a then relatively well-known master. Veysel Guezel trained as the first in addition to the Master Trainer from other instructors and even opened several schools. 
Later Veysel Guezel went his own way and decided to transfer this knowledge exclusively in a personal training. He trained for years in Düsseldorf und NRW in Germany, as also in other places successfully in personal trainings. Now he is active all around Europe.
His students have the opportunity to benefit from their more than 30 years of experience. 

Interview 
SK: Why are you so confident that your system is the best in the world?

VG: The answer is ultimately the result for the students. If more than 90% alone after a taster training, say after 2 hours, that they have learned more than the years before or are very enthusiastic about the learning effect, it confirms the efficiency of my training technique VGTS (Veysel Guezel Tactical System)

LSK: And how do you achieve that? So what is the secret of their success? 

VG: In short, a few techniques are getting used in combination. This can be learned very fast. Widespread technology obsession is a major handicap in other education systems. An effective and fast way for self-defense is crucial for a success in an emergency. In my courses, I completely renounce this obsession with technology. It only teaches what really works. 
The second problem I see is the variety of technology in many training systems. The large number of techniques to be learned, for a single situation and movement, have critical disadvantages. These techniques require a lot of workouts. In addition, under adrenalin in an extreme situation, the whole thing is very difficult. Time is then critical and decides about victory or defeat. These many techniques make it almost impossible to apply them in a fraction of a second! 
That's why many good students and coaches are actually losing in the real fight against the experienced street racer or aggressor. Specialists name it a complex of problems in application, storage and retrieval capabilities. Here is the essence of the problem in the practical application of self-defense. In my system however, they learn only a few techniques. These solve almost any situation in reality. An outsider thinks that many techniques are used. In fact, there are only a few techniques that have been used in combination. They are used flexibly in all kinds of situations, without the need to be trained previously. This ability of application do have very few people. And this system allows my students to control and succeed. 

LSK: Interesting. You claim on their homepage that after only a few hours the system is better than others after years of training. It is hard to believe that your system is so successful. What is this based on? 

VG: The better system wins! The simple concentration on the essentials brings here the success. My recommendation is that in your search for an self-defense training system, you should pay attention on which system serves you the best and not the other way around, which system to serve. Otherwise I see a conflict of interest in this case. 

LSK: What exactly do you mean by that? 

VG: The student should pay attention to what can be learned and achieved through a training system in which time. The coach is actually secondary. He can be very good, because he has very good qualities and has trained very long and very hard and the person would probably be good in any system. It is not so much the number of years a trainer has practiced, rather the right system is crucial for the result. A system should allow the student, to reach the optimum. Ultimately, a student must perform the self-defense in an emergency. No coach can assist then in such a situation. 

LSK: Okay, I understand. Is that why some people learn and combine different systems? 

VG: The combination of different systems, can also lead to loose time. That means in a real situation a defeat. The problem from my perspective is, that different systems are getting combined. To use system in one situation and swicth to another system in another, sounds very naive to me. In general it is difficult, almost impossible, to combine these different systems. Especially when considering the various attacks with weapons or items. Around 70% of the fighting in UFC- or so-called cage-fightings, are taking place on the ground, but in a real situations, mostly it happens in a standing position. Since actions such as biting, a head nut or genital intervention are not allowed, but in real situations occur, it is obvious, that the training remains impractical. If you included these situations, the training processes would be completely different. 
I'm in the process of preparing a letter for the UFC and the WWFC to show how to make the whole thing more real. It could also be more interesting for the spectators of fights to make minutes of scenes on the ground more appealing to viewers. With only a few rule changes, it would be possible to get very close to an absolute real fight. I hope this will be tried out one day and tested. Especially, the danger for the fighters are not increasing by that. 

LSK: Then let's hope that they will succeed and thank you for the interview. 

VG: I also thank you. 

The interview was conducted in October 2019

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