Hello,
My name is Phillip Graham, I coach Brazilian jiu jitsu in Brisbane. I coach brazilian jiu jitsu to men women and children with community based pricing and I am looking to extend my free weekly women's self defence programme and what it offers.

I am very excited to offer striking along the brazilian jiu jitsu based programme but I am not excited about getting hit and would enjoy the protection of a self defence suit. 

The funds will be used to purchase a Redman instructor suit to give the needed protection to add striking to our brazilian jiu jitsu based programme. This suit will give our programme a much higher sense of realism and give our participants a new level of expectation when it comes to a self defence situation. 

Some of the challenges I have had is getting from stage one, coaching from an expensive hired room in a local gym to teaching out of my own space. It took years of hard work and switching and moving of funds and resources to make sure the project found its way to being finished. 

Also coaching children is no easy feat, between children having behaviour issues and classes full of siblings fighting staying in a positive frame of mind and meeting each child's needs is a psychological challenge to say the least but I have had a lot of help from my assistants, friends and family. Teaching adults has been a lot easier but it has had its moments. With a lot of my students having different personalities it has been fun getting to know them and helping them develop their own Brazilian jiu jitsu game.