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More Elbows (diary entry)

January 18, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes

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16.01.19 Tonight’s double lesson – one junior, one senior – continued to look at elbow strikes. The junior lesson concentrated on their place in Muay Thai and also introduced the clinch. The senior lesson concentrated on cross-training in general and dealt with various ranges and disciplines from weapons to MMA ground-work. The junior lesson began with a quick revision of punch/kick combinations at different ranges. We tightened up the guard and balancing considerations. Then I introduced the switch-kick. The horizontal […]

Spring Term Training Begins (diary entry)

January 17, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes

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16.01.2019 Today began the first day of a new term at Kingham Hill School. My session has been oversubscribed, meaning that the class was the largest group so far since I started teaching at Kingham Hill back in the spring last year. I am teaching self-defence again along with elements of combat sports. It was good to see the return of familiar faces from the two previous terms. Their presence meant I had some assistance with the greater numbers. […]

Early Clinch in Boxing (diary entry)

January 15, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes

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12.01.19 My second lesson of the day was for my two junior clients who are currently on the fifth hour of their course in Basic Boxing for Martial Arts Cross Training. We warmed up on the heavy bag varying footwork with basic combinations. Then we covered different tactics for drawing and fighting defensively. This brought us onto clinch-work. I was looked to cover clinch-work at a later stage in the course, but once I had used Jack Johnson’s […]

Cross Training Angles (diary entry)

January 15, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes

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12.01.19 My first lesson of the day brought this client up to four and a half hour mark on what has becoming a course dedicated entirely to Martial Arts Cross Training without focusing on one particular discipline. We used 12 basic stick angles from Eskrima and then went through elbow and punching applications. Not every angle was accounted for, but we focused on representation of the slashing, horizontal, smash-down, chop, backward and side elbows as well as overhands and […]

Enter the Elbows! (diary entry)

January 14, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes

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09.01.18 Tonight I taught a junior lesson in Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross Training and a senior lesson in Martial Arts Cross Training. The Muay Thai class focused on developing the long guard and the use of elbow strikes. The senior class worked across self-protection, Filipino stick-work and Muay Thai elbow strikes. The junior lesson began with a revision on the Dracula guard, a cover variation on the long guard. We drilled jabbing and jab/crossing with this […]

Layering Basics (diary entry)

January 9, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes

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05.01.19 My second lesson of the day brought my two junior clients up to the fourth hour of their 10 hour course in Basic Boxing for Martial Arts Cross Training. A spring-loaded free-standing heavy bag Christmas present ensured that a good portion of the lesson consisted of learning how to best use this tool. For the most part, the lesson was concerned with layering all the previous lessons. We began with footwork and looked at maintaining the integrity of stance […]

Progressive Principles (diary entry)

January 7, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes

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05.01.19 This morning’s first client is still recovering from a foot injury incurred outside of martial arts training. We worked up to the three hour mark of his 10 hour course. The course was originally his third Mixed Martial Arts programme. However, due to the injury I decided to focus on some restrictive training and also some martial arts cross-training. I introduced him to some weapons work. This was more to teach certain principles rather than to develop weapons […]

Cross-Training in Action (diary entry)

January 3, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes

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02.01.19 The first two official private lessons of the year saw the uncle and nephew team train inter-discipline connections and principles. Trite, pseudo-philosophical paradoxes to one side, sometimes you do need to go back to the beginning in order to move forward. My junior client was taught the behavioural connection between peek-a-boo slip/punching and the “Dracula” guard, and my senior client was taught the behavioural connections between the fence, angling off in general and various cover tactics. My […]

Hooks and the Basics (diary entry)

December 22, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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22.12.18 This morning I taught the third hour of a 10 hour course I am holding for two junior students in Western Boxing for Martial Arts Cross Training. We looked at the lead hook and worked on tightening up stances and footwork. The first part of the lesson was entirely dedicated to positioning and footwork. If there are three things that every fighter needs to have in their physical skills foundation it is to be on balance, to keep their […]

Muay Thai & MMA (diary entry)

December 21, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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19.12.18 Tonight my junior client continued work on stance and footwork whilst incorporating the hook into his Muay Thai whilst my senior client went through the ranges of MMA. My junior client warmed up with mirror footwork and I looked at retaining balance whilst throwing the basic combinations. The basic combination build-ups consisted of jab/round kick and jab/cross/round kick. I also kept my client on his toes, checking for balance and the ability to keep moving as well as checking […]

Restricted Training & FLT (diary entry)

December 17, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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15.12.18 My two junior client’s second lesson looked at tightening up footwork and basic straight punching. One client is using the peek-a-boo guard and approach, whilst I am sticking with the high guard for the other one. Training moved along at a good pace with plenty of enthusiasm and evidence that both students have been training well. We began mirror footwork, layering in upper body movement. We then focused on the jab, attacking, defending and countering. This was […]

MMA Stomach Throw & Muay Thai Basics (diary entry)

December 13, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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12.12.18 Tonight’s junior lesson continued work on Muay Thai, tightening up certain techniques and building combinations. The senior lesson put Wrestling at the core of MMA training. The junior lesson began with guard and footwork. The client has transitioned from just using a peek-a-boo guard in Western Boxing to adopting a high guard, which is the most popular form of Muay Thai guard. I checked balance and we looked at throwing punches with bare fists. Although no impact […]

Jab Variations Continue (diary entry)

December 12, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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11.12.18 Tonight brought my new Boxing client up to the eighth hour his basic course. We continued work on the jab variations, mainly going over the techniques taught last week before adding in the straight hook and the uppercut jab. Training began with a review of shadow boxing as a warmup. Here I watched footwork and upper body movement as I called out different scenarios. As per my essay on this area of training, it is important to […]

Two Clients Two Styles (diary entry)

December 10, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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08.12.18 This morning I began a new junior course with two new clients. My mandate is teach martial arts cross-training principles, building up to a Mixed Martial Arts programme. That is the current plan. My clients have backgrounds in Karate, Tae Kwon Do and Boxing. We began with a course on Western Boxing. It is a great starting point as it develops great footwork skills and trains the most immediate tool at a martial artist’s disposal: their hands. […]

The Blitz (diary entry)

December 7, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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05.12.18 Tonight I began a course on Kickboxing (Muay Thai) for my junior client and my veteran senior client focused on blitzing in MMA. The junior class introduced a change in guard from the peek-a-boo that we have been covering Western Boxing. My client now adopted a high Thai-style guard, but retained peek-a-boo’s more square-on stance. He also learnt a higher, narrower stance along with the unique rocking movement found in Muay Thai. From here we went back through […]

Ron Goin’s Dracula Cover (diary entry)

December 7, 2018 | Diary / Training Notes

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05.12.18 Today’s first lesson was the final part of this term’s course for Kingham Hill School. The course has mainly focused on self-defence, as per my mandate. However, once these basic skills were confirmed along with some underpinning information personal security, the group moved onto some attribute training in the form Muay Thai. In this lesson we looked at some basic defence and counters to common attacks within the sport of Muay Thai. We built up several punch/kick […]

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More Elbows (diary entry)
16.01.19 Tonight’s double lesson – one junior, one senior – continued to look at elbow strikes. The junior… Continue Reading
Spring Term Training Begins (diary entry)
16.01.2019 Today began the first day of a new term at Kingham Hill School. My session has… Continue Reading
Early Clinch in Boxing (diary entry)
12.01.19 My second lesson of the day was for my two junior clients who are currently on… Continue Reading
Cross Training Angles (diary entry)
12.01.19 My first lesson of the day brought this client up to four and a half hour… Continue Reading
Enter the Elbows! (diary entry)
09.01.18 Tonight I taught a junior lesson in Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross Training and a… Continue Reading
Layering Basics (diary entry)
05.01.19 My second lesson of the day brought my two junior clients up to the fourth hour of… Continue Reading