Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category
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Uphill grind
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- June 1, 2010
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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 [...]
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I know that technique!
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- May 21, 2010
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In the last class this Thursday we just covered sparring. This was done with bag gloves as this most closely represents street fighting and you have to work on being highly skilful, there’s no hiding behind big pillows. The aim of the session was to use the stuff that we’ve been practicing so student made [...]
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Make no ado.
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- February 11, 2010
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I’ve just looked at a martial arts forum for probably only the second or third time in my life. A person was asking about the club and various people responded. This of course then got involved in sort of claim and counter claim. Generally the news was very good. Like all clubs we’ve had our [...]
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Just too quick.
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- January 22, 2010
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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 [...]
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Platoon
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- November 24, 2009
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I’ve just been up for a great weekend teaching alongside my friends Rick Young and Terry Barnett In Edinburgh. Each of these great teachers has their own strength. With Rick it’s his constant quest to be the best he can be and where appropriate to check his progress through competition success. He’s a great champion and [...]
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Don’t waste it!
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- October 30, 2009
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I’m sixty today which is quite cool. Pleased to have got this far and looking forwards to many more years. I went training this morning at the Masters academy in Loughton to Stick fight with my friend Matt Chapman. I do this every week and I like to train on my birthday especially, however got [...]
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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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Math and Juji Gatame
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- August 31, 2009
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A math question first. An idiot (with a bad back) trains in a dojo at a rate of 25 Jujigatame (Standing to lying armbar) per hour for three hours. Q: how much pain is the idiot in at the end? Q: What is the speed of the other train? Q: how many oranges are left? [...]
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