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29.11.2022 The sixth hour of my bodyguard client’s course on self-defence continued our work in grappling and anti-grappling. After a warm-up we continued our clinching familiarisation training. Here my client went through the basics of collar and elbow bulling as well as over-hook/under-hook pummelling, leading into positional controls and transitions. We discussed and tested methods for countering basic holds as well as ways to scale down from more lethal techniques to simply subduing an attacker. Next, we moved into some […]

24.11.2022 Hour three of my client’s second course on Muay Thai continued work on elbow strikes. We went through all the material covered in the previous lesson, incorporated new combinations and applied pressure. For the latter, I sparred using a head cage. These full-face head-guards aren’t ideal but allow for students to execute elbow and knee strikes to the head in a sparring situation. However, due to the vision restrictions I decided to only wear the head guard and prohibit […]

22.11.2022 Hour five of my self-defence course for a bodyguard client, looked at handling grappling. Grappling, in self-defence terms, is either a backup resort in frontline cases when striking is efficient, a method for managing mid and low level violent threats and as a means for control and restraint. In order to understand anti-grappling a student needs to learn some basic clinch work. We began with collar and elbow as well as under-hook/over-hook clinching. From here we trained taking the […]

16.11.2022 My first lesson of the day was hour seven of my teacher consultancy for the Drum Kempo Ju Jutsu and Fitness anti-bullying programme. Having covered what sort of people bully, what sort of people can be bullied and how bullying might take place, we looked at ways to become a harder target for bullies. Prior to this there were the usual segways and side discussions on continued professional development. My client is currently immersed in some prolific Brazilian Jiu […]