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Kenn

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Door supervisors. It's called Bouncers. Did anyone else see it? Quite a eye opener as I am new to the world of security and I am booked in for my DS course. :)
 
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It's bound to be repeated.....I'm in Spain for another couple of weeks and TV is a bit 'hit or miss' out here !!!
I'll look out for a repeat.
 
I watched this last night.

Didn't like the guys bragging about the old days and all the people they'd attacked. They seemed really proud of this. How comes they'd all become "Authors" ????
 
Cos folk love to read it. I know guys on doors that read nothing but that shit and crime lords n such blah blah blah. 'Yeah, so i just smacked this clown with a right yeah and he hit the deck, his blood was everywhere, I thought he was dead' or something like that. What a way to live eh. Not that this cant happen by proxy(or maybe through need), in your everyday life aswell.

Not read many, in fact iv made it through 2. One had some funny short stories but a lot of blah. Other one was Geoff Thompsons 'watch my back'. Think i still have a copy. Good book.
 
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I remember being a nighporter in a hotel when a traveller wedding was on years ago, I had just finished school and getting a few quid together to go a holiday. The Doormen were short of numbers, (I know now why, a lot of regulars strangely got the flu) and the hotel manager asked me to step, fo an extra fifty quid on top of normal wages.

Cut a long story short, it kicked off and it took about an hour to calm it down, I never saw as many ford transits and cop cars in the one place ever. The hardest fifty quid extra I ever earned.

Utmost respect to the boys who do it full time.
 
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Cos folk love to read it. I know guys on doors that read nothing but that shit and crime lords n such blah blah blah. 'Yeah, so i just smacked this clown with a right yeah and he hit the deck, his blood was everywhere, I thought he was dead' or something like that. What a way to live eh. Not that this cant happen by proxy(or maybe through need), in your everyday life aswell.

Not read many, in fact iv made it through 2. One had some funny short stories but a lot of blah. Other one was Geoff Thompsons 'watch my back'. Think i still have a copy. Good book.
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Dear Chuckspinna, I appreciate the quote from my recent book;

I WAS AN SAS BOUNCER, and PART TIME SECURITY GUARD.

''A true story of and deep cover SAS Trooper in Tescos,
Who missing the action of warfare joined a Bognor Regis Door Team.''

Unf**king believeable.
The Times

Less Lost in the desert, than Bravo 2 Zero.
The Bognor Regis Bugle

The Worlds Hardest (oldest) Doorman
SAGA

However I must complain about your unauthorised excert from the chapter; ''Arthritis will not stop me.''

I must insist that you and the programmes makers desist from plagurising my work; further occurences will be met with a legal notice from my solicitor; Hiemi Wynstine.
My book is meant as a training aid for new pro-bouncers who wish to train in the deadly art of 'Borinolbollex' a modern martial art derived from the ancient form of 'Knottunite' passed down through generations of doorman and their secret society (the SIA) never revealed before today.
So cut it out sun beam. gabbish.
 
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Yeah i saw this last night. My cousin is a DS and says he loves it. I've done it once at a private party and it was OK.
 
Geoff Thompson book was ok as a light read to fill in a few hours on the plane to Greece last year but not really my kind of thing. A little too proud of his 'conquests' in ass kicking for my liking but there must be a market for it........ just be aware it isnt on the syllabus for the SIA DS license.... thats a tad different
 
The program itself has got to be around 4 years old and repeated and repeated and repeated some more. The only two good things i ever saw on that program was
1) me *
2) a certain person who thinks he is the local "godfather" of the area where i live who actually is nothing but a co*k and a bully boy who cant go anywhere without his 2 cronies with him as he is scared (bless him) trying to blag everyone into thinking he is a hard man (Mr L. you know who you are)

* if you see the one from Blackpool where it shows a chav being dropkicked out of the front door then "restrained" (term used quite lightly) until the police got there, well that was me (not the chav) ok its not the best way to deal with situations but it was before the SIA came into force when the "old school doorman" was exactly that not a spotty faced college grad who thinks it will get him a chance of losing his cherry.
Going back to the incident it was at a rave club called "Jenk's" in Blackpool and the little chav whilst being searched had pulled a blade and slashed our female door supervisors shoulder, so the only course of action was a full dropkick using all my 21 stone and fully restrained (well unconsious with a broken cheekbone, but you cant get better restrained than that)
Im not proud of doing it (except the dropkick now that was impressive) but when faced with a nutter with a very sharp blade who was quite willing to use it and already had done, bearing in mind we had people all around as well, then I just used what force i deemed neccessary at the time;). But obviously im quieter now because the SIA training teaches you conflict management and how to use "the open palm approach" etc etc and 99.9% of the time when you have a bloke pi$$ed out of his brains and coked up brandishing a broken bottle or knife threatening to kill you with it, then trying to teach the guy the error of his ways etc always works doesnt it? NOT.
The SIA hopefully will join the real world and stop living in cloud cookoo land with nothing better to do than count their blood money that they steal from every hardworking security op.
thats my moan over, i only came on to to say yes ive seen the programme (sorry)
 
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Nice to see the programme represented a good braod spectrum of the lads and lasses working the doors. In all honesty I've never encountered so many 'Bouncers' than I've seen on the programme. All the ones I've seen and work with look nothing like how they were portrayed. It must be the 'old school' style of bouncing but it sure as hell aint for me and it's what puts me off taking jobs and even more it's what makes me hate being called a bouncer!

Each to their own, but the SIA badged boys on there bragging about their KO's etc did absolutley feck all for the industry or how DS are thought of.

Just my pennies worth

Walks
 
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....................a certain person who thinks he is the local "godfather" of the area where i live who actually is nothing but a co*k and a bully boy who cant go anywhere without his 2 cronies with him as he is scared (bless him) trying to blag everyone into thinking he is a hard man (Mr L. you know who you are)...............
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This "Mr L" ............Is that the same "Mr L" from Wigan and his first name wouldnt be "Mick" would it ?????
 
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