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MMA Revision & Trapping (diary entry)

May 25, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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24.05.2018 Tonight’s lesson on transitioning MMA took the focus onto trapping. We spent the majority of the class going through all the ranges. This began with a series of movement exercises – snaking, butterfly guard movement, combat base knee-walking and various footwork. This was followed by transitioning through all these postures on the move. Finally punching combinations were added on top. We then changed to partner work. This began with mirror footwork, drilling two, three and four punch […]

Footwork and the Jab

May 24, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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24.05.2018 Second early bird training this week with the usual 5:30 a.m. start and my client’s first lesson in Western Boxing for Martial Arts Cross Training. We immediately began with footwork – forwards, backwards, sideways and v-stepping. This was trained first in a standard freeway as a warm-up exercise. Then markers were introduced and we also used a tyre to discipline maintaining a strong stance throughout the movement. Next, we tested it with a cornering game. Attention was made […]

Kingham Combat Grapplers

May 24, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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23.05.18 Training at Kingham Hill School moved onto combat grappling. We began with an energetic series of movement exercises, designed to reinforce various behaviours learnt over the previous lessons and to increase reaction timing. This started with simple changing directions, then altering heights of stances, varying footwork, striking whilst moving, covering, sprawling, switching ranges and finished with transitioning through postures to regain footing. We began our technical training with the side headlock. This is a primal grappling move […]

MMA Stand-up Begins (diary entry)

May 23, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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22.05.18 Tonight, my client began his first lesson in a course on Stand-up MMA/Dirty Boxing. This was a course we discussed and I designed based on my client’s desire to focus on utilising Muay Thai in MMA. We have just finished his second course in Muay Thai and he has completed his first course in MMA. Training began with pure Muay Thai techniques. We ran through some basic combinations linked to the clinch. Then we sparred for a […]

Revision, Protecting Others & Post-Fight (diary entry)

May 23, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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22.05.18 My 5:30 lesson brought my client’s first Basic Course on Self-Protection to a close. We revised the fence, straight striking, hook striking, transitional striking, the cover, multiple attackers, fighting from the ground, kicks and anti-grappling concepts. We also covered adaptations for protecting others. This included using another person’s boundaries as a gauge for intercepting a threat, clearing the intended victim (the principle) and pre-emptive striking. Then we drilled removing a protected person from a dangerous area – […]

Combinations for the Final Lesson (diary entry)

May 20, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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19.05.18 This morning my client trained in the final lesson of his second course on Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross Training. We went through most of the material covered in the course and focused on specific areas that needed more attention. Warm-up began with mirror footwork, fighting at long range and then clinch, setting up various combinations. We addressed the v-step and the tactics of angling off. I likened the angling off tactics to chipping away at […]

Clinch and Sweep (diary entry)

May 18, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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Knee strike to stomach whilst grappling (b)

17.05.18 Tonight was the penultimate lesson in my client’s second course in Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross Training. We continued our work with the clinch and exclusive worked in and around this range. We also spent the majority of the lesson going through three sweeps. Warm-up began with mirror footwork, which progressed onto pad-work. We went through a series of punching, kicking and punch-kick combinations that all ended with achieving a clinch position. The purpose of this […]

Transitional Sparring (diary entry)

May 18, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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16.05.18 Tonight’s lesson with my longest consecutively training client looked more on putting all the transitioning training together. The warm-up began with mirror footwork, going through all postures – off the back, seated, kneeling and standing. We angled off for v-steps, attacked and drew attacks. This progressed into clinching through postures, drilling grips with strikes and strikes into takedowns, takedowns from different lines of attacks and submissions from the ground. This moved onto the focus mitts and we […]

Grappling Defence at Kingham Hill (diary entry)

May 17, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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16.05.18 The second lesson of the day was part of my continuing Self-Protection/Mixed Martial Arts course I am running at Kingham Hill School. Today the class moved onto anti-grappling tactics. We overlapped pad-work, technique application and live testing on all the techniques cover today. We warmed up with posture transitioning and movement exercises. Then we began an anti-grappling exercise that involved one partner using grappling holds and the other placing strikes. This built up into a series of […]

Combat Grappling Continues (diary entry)

May 16, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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16.05.2018 The 5:30 a.m. training continued with combat grappling, going to the ground and also adding on anti-grappling tactics. This is my client’s ninth hour in a 10-hour course on Basic Self-Protection. We began with revision on headlocks, initial head-lock escapes, back position, rear naked chokes and head-lock takedowns. Then we moved onto the cross-buttocks throw and striking from grappling holds. We went into some more detail regarding escaping the side head-lock. Here we focused on a deeper head-lock […]

Combat Grappling Begins (diary entry)

May 11, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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10.05.18 We reached the eighth hour point of my client’s 10 hour course on Basic Self-Protection held at 5:30 a.m. We continued with the anti-grappling taught in the previous lesson, moving into combat grappling. The lesson began with a revision with the eye-gouging/head-butt/elbow strike combination. Then we moved onto side headlocks. The side headlock is a primal grappling technique in that it is a very instinctive move for a human to use. Therefore, it is a likely if a fight […]

Specific Sparring for Transitions (diary entry)

May 10, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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09.05.18 The transitional series of MMA lessons looked a lot at pressure tonight. We began with various specific exercises, dealing with the three transitions and four postures. These were layered with techniques. We tried moving backwards and forwards along the mats whilst moving into submission holds. Stand-up work focused on Western Boxing and Muay Thai set-ups. Next week we might bring in some takedown entries and combination that link the postures. After applying strikes from all the postures and […]

Kingham Kickers (diary entry)

May 9, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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09.05.18 Today’s lesson at Kingham Hill School was supposed to address anti-grappling, but I decided to focus on a few striking fundamentals before moving onto this section of the training. We looked at developing power in the straight hand strike, revising pre-emption and recovery before moving onto kicks. The class warmed up going through the basic postures and transitions off the ground, increasing intensity with each repetition. They then moved onto coaching one another on the focus mitts. […]

Gouges, Head Butts, Elbows, Bites & Sprawls (diary entry)

May 9, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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09.05.18 The 5:30 a.m session today is the first of two anti-grappling lessons I will be covering today. It is this particular client’s seventh hour of his basic course on Self-Protection and time to start putting the pressure on. We began with the warm-up, where he placed strikes within a grappling context. This is a light form of pressure testing. It helps convey the dynamic of the asymmetrical, encourages striking whilst being grappled and is also a good […]

Setting up Strikes Inside the Clinch (diary entry)

May 5, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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05.05.2018 My client’s Second Course of Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross-Training brought us to the seven and a half hour point. This morning we focused on the clinch. We warmed up with some basic kickboxing combinations I would use to set the mechanics in place for the short-range strikes. This consisted of the four punch-kick combinations. We then revised the jumping knee and jumping smash-down elbow. The clinch work then began with set-ups for the spear knee, […]

Transitional Kicks (diary entry)

May 4, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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03.05.18 The 5:30 a.m. sessions continue with my client’s sixth hour of a 10 hour course in Basic Self-Protection. This morning’s lesson looked at building a transitional structure for multi-range unarmed self-defence, leading onto anti-grappling tactics. We had introduced kicks into the previous class. This aspect was covered again from a ground-defence position. However, we got to the ground-defence kicking it was important for me to better establish transitional movement. My client first trained going through the four […]

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MMA Revision & Trapping (diary entry)
24.05.2018 Tonight’s lesson on transitioning MMA took the focus onto trapping. We spent the majority of the… Continue Reading
Footwork and the Jab
24.05.2018 Second early bird training this week with the usual 5:30 a.m. start and my client’s first… Continue Reading
Kingham Combat Grapplers
23.05.18 Training at Kingham Hill School moved onto combat grappling. We began with an energetic series of… Continue Reading
MMA Stand-up Begins (diary entry)
22.05.18 Tonight, my client began his first lesson in a course on Stand-up MMA/Dirty Boxing. This was… Continue Reading
Revision, Protecting Others & Post-Fight (diary entry)
22.05.18 My 5:30 lesson brought my client’s first Basic Course on Self-Protection to a close. We revised… Continue Reading
Combinations for the Final Lesson (diary entry)
19.05.18 This morning my client trained in the final lesson of his second course on Muay Thai… Continue Reading