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• BREEN SYSTEM: REBOOT!

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• July 11, 2010

• Welcome to our new website. We hope you like it. This is part of an Academy reboot over the coming months with more articles, more pics, more video and more training tips. In club we’ll be doing a curriculum reboot to make it more functional, easier to learn, and more fun for you. Plus a [...]

• Grading date

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• July 6, 2010

• There will be a grading for senior grades-green belt plus on Thursday the 22nd of July. There will only be one open training class that evening. The class will be from 6.30-7.30 and the grading from 7.30 until 10.00. Apologies for any inconvenience, normal training on the other days that week. If you’re a junior [...]

• On bravery

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• June 28, 2010

• I’ve been going to lots of art shows and openings recently with my wife Judy and have been really impressed by the bravery shown by some artists. Of course it’s a mixed bag. Some of it is rubbish but the good stuff is very brave. Brave in the way that they put themselves out there [...]

• Lever your way to power

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• June 25, 2010

• It’s interesting to watch people train hard with the best of intention but not always get out of it what they put in. In numerous clubs I’ve seen them training really hard, yet being slow and cumbersome or wide and ineffective in their standup and get exhausted in the process. It’s the same situation on [...]

• New York tentacles

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• June 20, 2010

• It’s with regret that we’ve said goodbye to Jamie Hutchins one of our senior Black belts who’s off to a senior publishing job in New York . Does this mean that Jamie will forget the Academy? I doubt that, hopefully he’s an initial outpost in the U.S. Above all we wish him well. However the [...]

• Filipino boxing day Sunday

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• June 7, 2010

• This coming Sunday it’s Filipino Boxing day. No, not like a special day after Christmas, rather it’s a day training in the art of Filipino Boxing. This is a form of dirty street boxing often called panantukan. An incredible art where clinch methods, punches, elbows, chops and finger jabs link in with unbalancing, tripping and [...]

• Filipino Festival

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• June 7, 2010

• I got to go along to the Filipino Martial arts festival this Sunday. Apparently I was booked to teach but they’d neglected to tell me!. So my class was taken by old academy hand Master Pat O’Malley. This Festival is really unique. It’s rare for a group of Filipino Instructors to all come together in [...]

• Grading postponement

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• June 2, 2010

• Guys I’ve postponed the senior grading for a few weeks. I will be putting on special classes for seniors to practice all the grading techniques. Apologies if you’re inconvenienced. See you all in the class tomorrow.

• Uphill grind

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• June 1, 2010

• We’ve just come back from a short break in the lake district which was wonderful. We missed the tourists and had a great time driving on empty roads. The trip reminded me how in the eighties alongside martial arts competition we also used to compete in the Karrimor mountain marathon. At the time this was [...]