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American Defendo Academyis governing body forJyrki Saario Defendo International in North America. Jyrki Saario Defendo is effective, all-around self defence system, which combines decades of experience both western and eastern martial arts and combat sports. The system has been developed specially for those, who need self defence skills at work but it suits well also for those who are interested i
n self defence and education. The foundation of our Defendo is Jyrki Saario’s near four decades experience of some of the world’s most effective self defence systems and martial arts. Mr Saario has led the development of Scandinavian Defendo and many of world’s foremost self defence instructors have participated in the evolution. Basis for the development was to create a self defence system that really works. Jyrki saario Defendo is based on real life experience: analyzing real life confrontations, only the most effective techniques and solutions that work in engagements in reality, were selected to the system. The development of Jyrki Saario Defendo has been long-term and purposive. It is interesting to see that a great number of techniques, that were included in our Defendo, can be found from old hand-to-hand-combat manuals, like in Codex Wallerstein (year 1470), Defendu (1926) and Hand-to-Hand Combat (1943). From the beginning of 1980’s, and systematically from year 1995, Jyrki Saario has been collecting statistics of how the techniques have been working in real life situations. A great number of instructors in Jyrki Saario Defendo are employed in professions where facing violent behavior is very common, that’s why Defendo is a natural choice for many security professionals.
