January 22, 2010
Lots of people keep phoning saying ‘ Where are you? ‘ ’ I used to train at the Academy and want to come back’ So here’s directions from the old school in Hoxton square. Come out of the Old school and turn left, walk up to the school and pub on the corner. Turn left [...]
Like most people I feel the need to be more organised and I try to fit the most I can into my day. Having small ten minute slots for doing your cardio or yoga stretching or for drilling is I find more approachable and at least it gets done that way. Being overly ambitious you [...]
Recently in the Classes we’ve been working on clinch techniques and using the same techniques throughout all of our training whether we’re doing MMA style clinch, Filipino boxing, stickfighting or knife defence. In this way you get to see the same shapes constantly and then learn them in more depth. By doing them in different [...]
Recently Carl Greenidge and I did a small demonstration and talk along with my Jazz friend Stephen Keogh to some gang members on a north london ‘ sink ‘ estate. The estate looked great but obviously didn’t do what it intended as there was lots of drugs and gang violence there. Doing knife defence in [...]
Classes are back to normal now despite the snow. Don’t take any risks coming in but classes are back on and going strong. Last Thursday we had nearly a full house on what was a very nasty evening. From this week we’ll be focusing on Grading techniques with a new revised syllabus. Gradings at the [...]
A happy new year to all our members and friends logging in. It looks like it’s going to be a great year. It’s going to be the Chinese year of the tiger this year (from Febuary ) so lets get going and roar our way through the year. The training is going to be tough, [...]