Clubb Chimera

06.07.20 Monday night’s first lesson on Zoom saw my lockdown reach the seventh hour of what has become a Submission Grappling/Ground-Fighting course. We have made it to escaping the reverse scarf-hold which opens us up for attacking the back. The lesson began with some ground-fighting callisthenics and dynamic stretching. I had these exercises performed as a ladder separated into top and bottom positions. Therefore, with the top position we began with bear crawls and then addded on various other crawls, […]

30.06.20 Tuesday night continued my teacher training lessons with a consultation on how to expand the children’s self-protection programme. The topics were as follows:   The Use of Bad Language   In line with discussions prompted on my last “When Parents Aren’t Around Webinar”, we talked about the relevance of handling bad language when training children and teenagers. The big issue is that bad language is part and parcel of violence. Predators typically weaponise swearing at their victims in order […]

22.06.20 Tonight’s lesson was the fifth hour of my client’s second MMA course. We looked at escaping the scarf-hold and the north south positions. The lesson began with a dynamic stretching and calisthenic-based workout focused on ground-fighting. After overhand squats, arm circles and torso rotations we began with upas to properly engage all the right muscle groups. These changes to various snaking movements, sit-outs, different crawls and then I introduced my lockdown couple to some submission calisthenics from guard. Both […]