Archive for the ‘Training’ Category
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Why Trap?
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- May 19, 2010
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This week we’ve been covering some of the grading syllabus. In last nights class we just concentrated on trapping. The first thing that I covered was: Why Trap? As I explained your main intention should be to strike your opponent supposing a scenario where if you don’t strike them they’ll strike you. I said that [...]
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Missed me!-Missed me!-Gotcha!
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- May 7, 2010
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Last night we spent a lot of time on defending against front kick from either leg. We started off using a simple retreating strategy. Either using a drag step to move your whole body back out of distance. In jun fan you’d call that retreating your horse stance then we did retreating the lead leg [...]
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BECOME AN INSTRUCTOR.
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- April 26, 2010
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Being a martial arts instructor has to be one of the best jobs on the planet. You not only earn an income but you gain respect, help people grow, develop yourself physically and mentally and get to meet people from all walks of life. It’s incredible that helping others opens doors in your own life [...]
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Passing the guard.
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- April 15, 2010
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The term passing the guard is well known for BJJ and grappling/ mma practitioners and there are a large number of variants you can use on the ground. However you can use this same approach in stand up to either grapple or strike or mix the two. The aim of lots of the trapping methods [...]
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Now I’m here, now I’m not.
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- March 3, 2010
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Lots of the stuff I learnt in my Karate days often now seems relevant when watching people train. Though the Karate had lots of downsides it was a great learning experience. Let’s look at stance. Karate has more of a fixed way of looking at stance. It’s not bad but it leads to rigidity. Boxing [...]
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Moving the World
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- February 25, 2010
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One of the main aims of martial arts training is to enable a smaller opponent to beat a larger opponent through the use of technique and skill. This is obviously composed of a number of factors: Placement, timing, experience, speed, and efficient technique. One of the most important though is leverage. Give me a lever [...]
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Simply subtle
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- February 2, 2010
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We’ve been working lots of sparring lately concentrating on simple direct attacks like the front kick and generally working kicks more. What’s profound here is how many different things you can do with just front kick and a jab and cross. I taught the concept of boxes. First and nearest you have the punching box, [...]
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Integrated combat
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- January 22, 2010
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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 [...]
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