Be Fit, Be Safe, Be Well, Be Aware, Take Responsibility - The Five Rings

Welcome to Five Rings Training Academy

Unique in its combining of hard martial arts, defence systems, healing arts and elite fitness training, Five Rings Training focuses on the cultivation and development of the individual.

Join us and let highly trained female martial artists, defence system instructors, GB squad fighters, International athletics coaches and renowned healers bring to you their knowledge and the Way to train to a better way of living.

The Five Rings Academy hosts Five Rings Defence, Five Rings Fight, Five Rings Sport, Five Rings Health and the unique Five Rings Fifth Element which writes programmes merging martial arts, defence, fitness and healing into one comprehensive system.

Based in London but working worldwide, The Academy is staffed by a team of elite instructors - a carefully selected and trained community of the UK's top coaches across martial arts, defence, athletics, nutrition and healing. Individually they are responsible for international competition level teams, hold world ranking, sport personal international achievements and wear an impressive list of qualifications. Collectively, they are Five Rings Training.

  • Five Rings Defence

    Personal Safety Classes & Complete Reality Defence Training including Krav Maga and Weapons disarment. Confidence & Awareness Coaching. Workshops & Retreats.

    Security Consultancy, Travelling Abroad, Working Abroad, Where to go - Where not to go, How to spot and solve problems from basic to high risk scenarios. Private consultations, Group Seminars, Corporate Briefings.

  • Five Rings Fight

    Full contact fight training. Shidokan Karate Kickboxing. MMA. International Tournament Training. Boot Camps.

    Five Rings Sport

    Elite fitness and stamina training. Sports Nutrition. Solo and Team Competitive Training. Athletics, Swimming, Ironman, Adventure Racing.

    Five Rings Health

    One on one healing therapies, London. On-site massage. Nutritional Programming. Workshops & Retreats.

    Five Rings Fifth Element

    Unique programmes written to comprehensively bring to you the best of what we know across the whole of Five Rings. Classes, Courses, Workshops & Retreats.

Five Rings Training takes its name from the classic Samurai text The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, commonly regarded as a manual on how to succeed in life, and how to overcome struggle and conflict. Read more...

Our courses involve techniques in …

  • Krav Maga
  • Weapons disarment
  • Women training women
  • Knife defence
  • Street and self-defence
  • Grappling
  • Shidokan Karate
  • Kickboxing
  • Shiatsu
  • Acupressure