Competences of combat sports and martial arts educators in light of the holistic fair self-defence model of training

Material/methods: The research included 135 combat sports and martial arts educators representing 19 countries of different continents. Methods: (1) Monographic method and research of chronicles and creating opinion documents; (2) Diagnostic sounding in form of a questionnaire (own elaboration) and interview; (3) Method of creation and use of a model. This model is the essential base of the elaboration of the questionnaire addressed to the combat sports and martial arts educators, and then it was also used to elaborate the basic classifi cation criteria and evaluation of the obtained answers.