Geoff Thompson (writer)

In 2004, Thompson won a BAFTA award for 'best short film' for his screenplay "Brown Paper Bag".[3]

Thompson's first feature film Clubbed (2008), starring Colin Salmon, is an underworld drama set in the early 1980s and is based on his autobiography Watch My Back.[4]

His work Romans 12:20, directed by the Shammasian Brothers and starring Craig Conway, has finished production and was shown at a private screening in London on 23 January 2008. It toured the film festival circuit in the early part of 2008. It has been adapted into a feature film, Romans (2017), starring Orlando Bloom.

He wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Pyramid Texts (2015), starring James Cosmo.[5]

Thompson made his directorial debut in 2015 with the short film The 20 Minute Film Pitch.[6]

His first short film—Bouncer (2003)—starred Ray Winstone.[7]

In the 1990s, Thompson wrote and presented a wide range of martial arts and self-defence DVDs. In 1995, he and his self-defence school featured in the Channel 4 documentary Passengers.

Feature films

• Clubbed (2008) – Writer, starring Colin Salmon[8]
• The Pyramid Texts (2015) – Writer, starring James Cosmo[9]
• Romans (2017) – Writer, starring Orlando Bloom[10]

Short films

• Bouncer (2002) – Writer, starring Ray Winstone[11]
• Brown Paper Bag (2003) – Writer, starring Ronnie Fox[12]
• Romans 12:20 (2008) – Writer[13]
• Pink (2009) – Writer[14]
• Counting Backwards (2014) – Writer[15]
• The 20 Minute Film Pitch (2015) – Writer[16]
• Shadow (2017) – Writer[17]

Self-help

• The Beginner's Guide to Darkness – This Book Will Help You to Find the Light, Geoff Thompson Ltd, ISBN 978-0956921505[18]
• The Caretaker, Geoff Thompson Ltd, ISBN 978-0956921529[19]
• The Elephant and the Twig – The Art of Positive Thinking, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840242645[20]
• Everything that Happens to Me is Fantastic, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840247688[21]
• Everything that Happens to Me is Good, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840245974[22]
• Everything that Happens to Me is Great, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840246841[23]
• Fear – the Friend of Exceptional People, Geoff Thompson Ltd, ISBN 978-0956921550[24]
• The Formula – The Secret to a Better Life, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840245103[25]
• Hunting the Shadow – How to Turn Fear into Massive Success, Geoff Thompson Ltd, ISBN 978-0956921536[26]
• Live Your Dreams – Ten Secrets to Loving Your Life, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840247749[27]
• Shape Shifter – Transform Your Life in 1 Day, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840244441[28]
• Stress Buster – How to Stop Stress from Killing You, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840245097[29]
• Warrior – A Path to Self Sovereignty, Geoff Thompson Ltd, ISBN 978-0956921512[30]

Autobiography

• Watch My Back (Autobiography), Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840247169[31]

Screenplay

• Fragile, Geoff Thompson Ltd, ISBN 978-0956921543[32]
• The Pyramid Texts, Geoff Thompson Ltd, ISBN 978-0956921574[33]

Fiction

• Red Mist, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840244014[34]

Martial arts and self-defence

• Animal Day – Pressure Testing the Martial Arts, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840241112[35]
• Arm Bars and Joint Locks, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840241761[36]
• The Art of Fighting without Fighting – Techniques in Personal Threat Evasion, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840240856[37]
• Chokes and Strangles, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840241723[38]
• Dead or Alive: The Choice Is Yours – The Definitive Self-protection Handbook, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840242799[39]
• The Escapes, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840241730[40]
• The Fence – The Art of Protection, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840240849[41]
• Fighting from Your Back, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840241747[42]
• Fighting from your Knees, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840241754[43]
• Pins – The Bedrock, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1873475829[44]
• Real Head, Knees and Elbows, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1873475775[45]
• Real Punching, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840240887[46]
• Real Kicking, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840240870[47]
• Three Second Fighter – Sniper Option, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840244595[48]
• The Throws and Takedowns of Freestyle Wrestling, Summersdale, ASIN: B0061MRQSU[49]
• The Throws and Takedowns of Greco-Roman Wrestling, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840240290[50]
• The Throws and Takedowns of Judo, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840240269[51]
• The Throws and Takedowns of Sombo, Summersdale, ISBN 978-1840240276[52]
• Weight Training for the Martial Artist, Summersdale, ASIN: B0061NWC8I[53]

Thompson began his martial arts training in the Eastern arts including karate, aikido and kung-fu. However, during his time as a nightclub doorman, he found that what he had learned was inadequate for the reality of violence. Thompson came to realise that the techniques encouraged and practiced in touch-contact and semi-contact martial arts were not always suitable for self-defence. Though he utilises a small core of these techniques as part of his teachings, Thompson prefers full-contact martial arts and combat sports such as boxing, Muay Thai, judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Greco-Roman- and freestyle wrestling.

He holds the ABA Boxing Instructor certificate and high-level coaching awards for wrestling,[54] a 1st Dan in Judo (1997) under world champion Neil Adams,[55] and an 8th dan in Shotokan Karate.[56] Geoff is a Joint Chief Instructor of the British Combat Association.[57]

Geoff Thompson was also the first instructor to name and extensively teach "the fence", a technique in real-life defence involving keeping your hands in front of you in a non-threatening manner so as to protect yourself in case a situation escalates but without provoking violence.

• The Escapes (2005), Summersdale Productions, ASIN: B0007NLRT8[58]
• Ground Fighting – Chokes and Strangles (2005), Summersdale Productions, ASIN: B0007NLRU2[59]
• Pins – The Bedrock (2005), Summersdale Productions, ASIN: B0007NLRSY[60]
• The Pavement Arena Part One (2005), Summersdale Productions, ASIN: B0007NLRWA,[61]
• The Pavement Arena Part Two – The Protection Pyramid (2005), Summersdale Productions, ASIN: B01I05LPZ0[62]
• The Pavement Arena Part Three – Grappling, The Last Resort(2005), Summersdale Productions, ASIN: B0007NLRWU[63]
• The Pavement Arena Part Four; Fit to Fight (2005), Summersdale Productions, ASIN: B0007NLRX4,[64]
• Real Punching: The One Punch Kill (2005), Summersdale Productions, ASIN: B0007NLRS4[65]
• The Ultimate Self Defence Seminar (2006), Summersdale Productions, ASIN: B000CR6X5C[66]

• Geoff Thompson IMDB page
• Interview with Geoff Thompson and SUBvert magazine