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Footwork Trilogy Conclusion (diary entry)

April 23, 2018 | Uncategorized

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22.04.18 This morning’s lesson was my client’s final two hours of a 10 hour course on Western Boxing for Martial Arts Cross-Training. We revised head movement, which had been his primary interest when he first booked my services, and then focused the majority of the lesson on integrating footwork patterns. We looked at the L-Step and then the V-Step. Regular readers will note that this completes the trilogy of my lessons this week that have focused on the latter […]

Attack from the Skies! (diary entry)

April 23, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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21.04.18 My second private lesson the morning brought my client up to the six hour point of his second course in Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross Training. I make no apologies for my focus on the v-step this week. You will note that I covered this in another client’s current series of lessons concentrating on transitions and general combative movement. The v-step will appear again in yet another client’s Western Boxing course. I will discuss my personal history […]

New Self-Protection Course (diary entry)

April 22, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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21.04.18 This morning I began a new course with a new client. Training was conducted at my home address, where a make-shift gym is beginning to see an increasing number of new students. We covered the first two hours of my bespoke 10 hour self-protection course. Having already been provided with advice on some reference material for personal security, we began the session with an overview of soft skills in general. I cover these areas quite extensively in […]

The V-Step and Dirty Boxing (diary entry)

April 20, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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19.04.18 My second lesson of the day was a regular private class, where we have been focusing primarily on the three transitions and four postures. Today we covered this again in our warm-up, but ended up focusing on the v-step footwork and some dirty boxing. I was first taught the v-step in Tony Hayes’s Muay Thai. Its particular relevance cropped up in the Thai clinch. I later correlated with angling off in wrestling during my time training with […]

Self Protection Course Begins at Kingham Hill School

April 19, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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18.04.18 Today’s first lesson was the beginning of a special course I am teaching for a term at Kingham Hill School. The students in attendance were between the ages of 16 and 18 years of age. The course was trialled last term with a good response. The agreed content was self-protection moving into Mixed Martial Arts. Today we addressed the legalities of self-defence, including when it is permitted to use a pre-emptive strike as well as other soft […]

Kicking Flexibility for Muay Thai (diary entry)

April 16, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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14.04.18 This lesson brought my client up to the four and a half hour point of his second Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross-Training. The main focus of the lesson was to improve flexibility for kicking and improve kick-based combinations. We warmed up with mirror footwork and then did some kick placement before moving onto dynamic stretching. This included Cossack stretches and split-squats, which serve as good callisthenic as well as mobility exercises. We also performed a series […]

Kick Smuggling (diary entry)

April 8, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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07.04.18 This morning brought my client’s second course in Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross Training up the three hour point. We continued worked on setting up kicks and introducing advanced kicking techniques. The warm-up began with mirror foot-work. This included forward, backward and v-stepping actions. We looked for targets and how to expose an opponent to attacks. We made a distinction between Western Boxing and Muay Thai by focusing the way Muay Thai covers and takes ground, […]

Four Postures, Three Transitions, One Fight (diary entry)

April 5, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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06.04.18 Tonight’s special double lesson took an in depth look at the four postures and three transitions of fighting. This was all mainly taken with an MMA context. We spent time looking more at travelling movement through the postures as well as the usual single transitions. After a period of dynamic stretching and training specific calisthenics we began going through the postures. Four Postures: Standing – Stand-up Fighting and Clinch range Kneeling/Half-Kneeling – Combat Base for Ground Fighting Range […]

Second Muay Thai Course Begins (diary entry)

April 3, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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31.03.18 This morning I began my client’s second course on Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross Training. After warming up with a series of dynamic stretches and calisthenics specific to this new area of training, we discussed his personal objective for this course. He wanted to focus a lot on better developing and learning kicks. We decided that the best way to do this would to have an immediate look at basic kicking combinations, ensuring that they were being […]

Mobility in Transitional Fighting (diary entry)

March 29, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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28.03.2018 Tonight we looked at incorporating more movement into our transitional drills for MMA. We began with a series of warm-up exercises in each of the postures, which promoted fluid transitioning. Then we built on boxing punching combinations to each posture in isolation and then through full transition – from lying on the back to a standing fighting stance. We then brought in travelling movement – footwork for standing and associated travelling movements for fighting from the back (snaking/shrimping), […]

Shoulder Roll (diary entry)

March 28, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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24.05.18 This morning’s lesson brought my client’s second course on Western Boxing for Martial Arts Cross Training to an end. It has been a remarkable course, full of self-discovery and research. We have not only referenced and taking tips from information taken from the highlights of the greats in Boxing history, but we have kept the focus on improving specific aspects of my client’s game. The latter point was never more evident than in today’s lesson, bringing everything back […]

Kicking it up (Diary entry)

March 22, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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21.03.18 Transitioning through postures rounded off the revisions with work on kicking through postures and then we pressure-tested the different postures in specific sparring. The lesson began with our current regular warm-up of various movement exercises in the four postures. We then transitioned from each posture in isolation before combining them into one fluid movement of getting from the back to the feet without put our hands down. The kicking transition began with using the rear leg […]

More Fighting on the Inside (diary entry)

March 21, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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20.03.2018 In-fighting is a part of Western Boxing that is only truly appreciated by people who genuinely love boxing. Many all-time greats – Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Roberto Duran, Floyd Mayweather Jnr and even the fleet-footed Muhammad Ali – were experts at fighting on the inside. Tonight’s lesson, which brought my client up to the eight hour mark of his 10 hour course in Western Boxing for Martial Arts Cross-Training, began to look at this range with more depth once […]

Boxing Inside and Outside (diary entry)

March 20, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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19.03.18 I have embedded several highly recommended training and learning videos I currently follow on YouTube to compliment certain points and concepts outlined in this particular diary entry. Tonight’s lesson brought my client up to the eight and a half hour point of his second course on Western Boxing for Martial Arts Cross Training. We have been primarily focused on developing better mobility and integrating it into different tactics. I haven’t especially focused on one strategy, but looked […]

Shadowing and Isolating Movement (diary entry)

March 16, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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14.03.18 Please forgive the vagueness of this diary entry, but my work here has become quite in depth and is mainly concerned with the refinement of a training drill. Therefore, it is written in a note form. Tonight’s lesson continued the transitioning through postures theme for martial arts cross-training. We are using the same drills that have been formulated over the past few weeks and continuously going back to the base postures. We warmed with individual postures as […]

Fighting out of the Clinch (diary)

March 15, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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13.03.18 Tonight’s lesson brought my client up to the sixth hour of his course on Western Boxing for Martial Arts Cross Training. This lesson focused on combining slipping with bobbing and weaving as well as ducking. We also worked a lot on coordinating all this upper body mobility with footwork and looked at the clinch too. Training began with basic line-work. This began with isolated movements forwards and backwards before building on upper body movement and punching. We paid […]

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Footwork Trilogy Conclusion (diary entry)
22.04.18 This morning’s lesson was my client’s final two hours of a 10 hour course on Western… Continue Reading
Attack from the Skies! (diary entry)
21.04.18 My second private lesson the morning brought my client up to the six hour point of… Continue Reading
New Self-Protection Course (diary entry)
21.04.18 This morning I began a new course with a new client. Training was conducted at… Continue Reading
The V-Step and Dirty Boxing (diary entry)
19.04.18 My second lesson of the day was a regular private class, where we have been focusing… Continue Reading
Self Protection Course Begins at Kingham Hill School
18.04.18 Today’s first lesson was the beginning of a special course I am teaching for a term… Continue Reading
Kicking Flexibility for Muay Thai (diary entry)
14.04.18 This lesson brought my client up to the four and a half hour point of his… Continue Reading