Archive for October, 2009
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Southpaw=JKD basics
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- October 28, 2009
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For the last three weeks we’ve been working on changing leads and on understanding the southpaw or unmatched lead where you are in the right stance and your opponent in the left. Bruce Lee’s JKD was in many respects just a southpaw style. As I remember too well, most of the fighters back then were [...]
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Shanghai Express
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- October 28, 2009
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Just back from a week in Shanghai. Mainly to study on a Jazz seminar but also to look into Martial arts there and also equipment design and manufacture. The first thing that struck us was of course the traffic which has to be seen to be believed. Bikes, cars and buses seem to have equal [...]
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Beginners: Start here!
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- October 20, 2009
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We’ve had lots of people wanting to join recently but we’ve had to put them off as I’ve been in China and we also wanted to bed in the training at the new venue for the existing students. Beginners should now attend on Tuesdays at 7.30 and Thursdays at 6.30 as we’ll have time to [...]
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B.I.G. huge success
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- October 20, 2009
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The recent B.I.G. BREEN INSTRUCTOR GROUP seminar was a huge success. Many of the instructors who came said it was one of the best seminars they’d ever attended. As usual we had a wide variety of people from all over Europe. Florian Castellano whose currently World Pancrase champion said he learnt more in two days [...]
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New, and earlier, classes
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- October 20, 2009
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We’ve started at the new venue and it’s going great. If you’ve not been already we’re now based at Space Sports and performance centre in Falkirk st N.1.which is just a couple of hundred yards from the old academy. Some of you wanted earlier classes and we said we’d try to satisfy that need. Already [...]
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