BSD Geneva – Self-Defense, Combat Sports & Professional Training
Geneva, Switzerland
WELCOME TO BSD GENEVA
Cedric Vilella
Instructor • Self-Defense • Combat Sports • Stunt Performer & Fight Actor
For over 30 years, I have been helping teenagers, adults, professionals, and athletes develop their skills through self-defense, combat sports, physical conditioning, and personal development.
My approach is based on real-world experience, effective teaching methods, and the transmission of practical tools designed to build confidence, physical fitness, self-control, and the ability to take action.
Today, BSD Geneva offers several areas of training and personal development:
• Self-Defense & Personal Protection
• Transformation, Orientation & Reconnection Programs
• Boxing & French Savate
• Physical Conditioning & Private Coaching
• Screen Combat & Fight Choreography
Each program is tailored to the individual's level, goals, and specific needs.
My objective is simple: to provide realistic, practical, and immediately applicable skills that can be used in everyday life, professional environments, and sports practice.
More recently, my experience as a stunt fighter on the production of Dune: Part Three has further enriched this approach, leading to the development of a new training program focused on screen combat and action performance.
Whether your goal is to build confidence, learn how to protect yourself, improve your physical condition, develop your combat skills, or gain greater clarity and direction in your personal journey, BSD Geneva offers a personalized approach adapted to your needs.
Cédric Vilella , Coach specialized in combat arts
Boxing CLUB Geneva is ...
Cédric Vilella, the Coach
For more than 30 years, Cédric Vilella has been active in the fields of martial arts, combat sports, personal development, and more recently, action cinema.
From an early age, alongside his training in boxing and martial arts, he developed a strong passion for teaching and helping others progress. This commitment to sharing knowledge gradually led him to train and support a wide variety of individuals, both in France and internationally.
Driven by a deep curiosity for the world and human potential, he has traveled through more than 60 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. These experiences, encounters, and real-life situations have profoundly shaped his vision of personal development, self-confidence, adaptability, and resilience.
In 2008, he obtained his French Savate Boxing Instructor Certification and continued expanding his career as a coach and instructor through classes, workshops, and educational programs for increasingly diverse audiences.
Over the years, he has taught and led workshops in Switzerland, France, Australia, Portugal, Finland, Brazil, Mexico, and several other countries.
During his time in Australia, he founded a training school in Sydney, further developing his commitment to teaching martial arts and self-defense internationally.
In 2014, he joined the Academy of Combat Arts (ADAC), where he trained under Éric Quequet, former member of the French Presidential Security Group and founder of ADAC, as well as Robert Paturel, former RAID instructor and internationally recognized expert in self-defense, conflict management, and operational intervention.
He later earned his Street Defense Instructor Certification and became responsible for the development of the ADAC method in Switzerland.
In 2015, he founded Boxing Self Defense Geneva with the objective of offering a realistic, accessible, and deeply human approach to self-defense, personal development, and action-based learning.
Alongside his teaching career, Cédric has also developed a path in the action film industry as a stunt performer, fight actor, and fight choreography creator.
He has participated in various television and film productions, including projects for France Télévisions, TF1, live-action entertainment productions such as Fort Boyard, international productions filmed in Morocco, and most recently the Hollywood feature film Dune: Part Three, where he joined the Fremen fighter team.
These experiences now contribute to a new area of expertise focused on screen combat, fight choreography, and actor preparation for action scenes.
Today, his work combines several complementary fields: self-defense, combat sports, physical conditioning, transformation and personal development programs, screen combat, and individual coaching designed to help people develop greater confidence, resilience, and capacity for action.
His philosophy has remained unchanged since the beginning of his journey:
Confidence, growth, and the ability to face life's challenges are built through experience, practice, and commitment.
"To master the art of combat, you have to understand its philosophy. (...)
(...) Without spirit, the body is useless. "
Yew Ching Wong
TESTIMONIALS ...
"Amazon training has a very positive effect on my perception of myself. I quickly started to develop a more posed, more serene and stronger attitude. I had a real click and I decided to continue my learning beyond 10 lessons. "
ISABEL, musician
Geneva, April 2016
"Amazon training has a very positive effect on my perception of myself. I quickly started to develop a more posed, more serene and stronger attitude. I had a real click and I decided to continue my learning beyond 10 lessons. "
ISABEL, musician
Geneva, April 2016
"Thanks Cedric for the time and the boxe de Rue techniques you tought me and wich i think are simple but very effective."
GUILMER, student
Mexico, 2015
"Physical and intense training, while I myself am a coach! I learned a lot humanly and technically thanks to a competent, attentive and generous coach.
Course of an excellent level of quality, I recommend! "
CORENTIN, Sports Coach
France, June 2015
"You will have only one opponent. (...)
(...) It's yourself. "
Kase
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Cédric Vilella
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Combat Arts Instructor • Self-Defense • Personal Development
