Meet Your Instructor Mark Tucker
If your goal is to learn flashy martial arts techniques, there are plenty of instructors who can teach you that.
If your goal is to learn how to recognise danger, avoid violence, protect yourself and those you love, and function effectively when everything goes wrong, then you’re in the right place.
For more than 30 years, Mark Tucker has dedicated his life to understanding violence, conflict, human performance under pressure, emergency response, and self-preservation.
His experience is not built solely in the gym.
It has been forged through military service, operational deployments, professional combat sports, security operations, emergency medical response, and decades of teaching people how to survive and prevail in high-pressure situations.
As a former Royal Marines Commando, Private Military Contractor, Maritime Security Specialist, Close Protection Officer, Professional Mixed Martial Artist, and Community First Responder, Mark brings together a depth of knowledge and real-world experience rarely found in a single instructor.
This unique combination allows him to teach not just how violence happens, but how to avoid it, manage it, survive it, and deal with its consequences.
A Lifetime Studying Violence So You Don’t Have To
Mark holds internationally recognised instructor credentials across multiple disciplines, including:
• PTTA Certified Guro (1st Hagdan Full Instructor) in Pekiti Tirsia Kali
• TRICOM Instructor – Edged Weapon Countermeasures and Tactical Application
• 3rd Degree Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Pedro Best
• Full Instructor in Progressive Fighting Systems and Rapid Assault Tactics under Paul Vunak
• Level 2 Instructor in Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Martial Arts and Muay Thai under Rick Faye and the Minnesota Kali Group
• More than 30 years of martial arts, combat sports and self-protection experience
Unlike many instructors who specialise in a single area, Mark has spent a lifetime studying every range of conflict—from awareness and avoidance through to striking, grappling, edged weapons, impact weapons, emergency trauma care, and the psychological effects of violence.
Specialist Areas of Instruction
• Self-Preservation & Personal Safety
• Situational Awareness & Threat Recognition
• Pekiti Tirsia Kali
• TRICOM Edged Weapon Countermeasures
• Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
• Jeet Kune Do Concepts
• Rapid Assault Tactics (RAT)
• Violence Dynamics & Decision-Making Under Pressure
• Emergency Trauma Care Following Violent Encounters
Real Experience. Real Consequences.
While many instructors teach from theory, Mark teaches from experience.
His operational background includes:
• Royal Marines Commando Service
• Private Military Contracting in Hostile Environments
• Maritime Security Operations
• Close Protection Duties
• Professional Mixed Martial Arts Competition
• Security and Door Supervision Operations
These experiences provided firsthand exposure to threat assessment, violence dynamics, decision-making under pressure, and the realities of human conflict.
They taught a simple lesson:
Violence is unpredictable. Preparation is essential.
The Missing Piece Most Self-Defence Instructors Never Teach
Most self-defence training ends when the fight ends.
Real life doesn’t.
Mark is also a qualified emergency responder holding:
- FREC 4 (First Response Emergency Care)
- PHTLS (Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support)
- FROS 3
- Community First Responder with the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
He has seen firsthand what violence does to the human body and understands that surviving an incident often depends on what happens in the critical minutes afterwards.
This rare combination of combative and medical experience allows students to gain a deeper understanding of personal protection than traditional martial arts training alone can provide.
The C360 Self-Preservation Philosophy
At C360, the goal is not to create fighters.
The goal is to create capable people.
People who can recognise danger early.
People who can make good decisions under pressure.
People who can protect themselves and those around them.
Training is built upon three core principles:
Awareness
Recognise danger before it develops.
Preparedness
Have a plan before you need one.
Willingness
Act decisively when necessary.
These principles form the foundation of everything taught at C360.
Whether the threat is verbal aggression, physical violence, criminal behaviour, or an unexpected emergency, students are taught to remain calm, think clearly, and take effective action under pressure.
The focus is not on collecting techniques.
The focus is on developing judgement, resilience, confidence, and practical skills that work in the real world.
Why People Train With Mark Tucker
Because experience matters.
Few instructors can genuinely combine elite military service, operational security experience, professional combat sports competition, internationally recognised martial arts instructor credentials, and frontline emergency medical response.
Fewer still can translate those experiences into simple, practical lessons that ordinary people can understand and apply immediately.
When you train with Mark Tucker, you’re not learning theory.
You’re learning lessons shaped by decades spent studying, experiencing, teaching, and responding to violence in the real world.
You are learning from someone who has operated in conflict environments, trained with world-renowned instructors, coached hundreds of students, responded to real medical emergencies, and dedicated his life to understanding what works when it matters most.
Because self-preservation is not about proving how tough you are.
It is about protecting what matters most.
Protect Yourself. Protect Your Family. Protect Your Future.
Teaching Ordinary People How To Function Under Chaos.