Targeting and the arm-bar (diary entry)
Image via Wikipedia We began by drilling the 11 punch combination and the punch/kick combination as a direct application for the warm-up. Target familiarization has become something of a CCMA trademark. I brought it into the Hard Target courses and do it whenever I feel it is necessary in training. Hitting pads all the time tends to get you good at hitting pads. There has to be overlap. You mould into the equipment you use and start developing abstract techniques […]
Mo Teague’s Hard Target Seminar
Jamie Clubb teaches Mo Teague's critically acclaimed self protection course for Response Security Training at the Zeppelin Building in London. The seminar includes the patented Confrontation Map, exclusive video footage for soft skills training and the most up-to-date combative training methods. The course is suitable for everyone and often comprises of a vast range of different people from different backgrounds from complete novice civilians to ex-military and law enforcement personnel.
Grappling – Taking the Back (diary entry)
Image via Wikipedia 07.03.11 Since last week was a striking centred class, today we looked at grappling only. Grappling is a rich area of combative study. Within reason, one can grapple at full resistance day-in, day-out and even several times a day with a comparatively much lower level of risk than with striking. It is both a human’s most primal method of unarmed combat and yet, particularly when on the ground, can be their most sophisticated. We began […]
The Survivor’s Club – A Book Review
Despite our disproportionate fear of improbable disasters and the awe we hold those who survive them there is relatively little research into the psychology of what we collectively call the survivor. This might be because the term is so widely applied and too many factors seem to be involved for any single expert in one discipline to consider a connection. Rather than find one unifying principle, Ben Sherwood sees different survivor personalities, but each of them possess at least […]
What is the most effective art?
Vagabond Warriors
“Vagabond Warriors” Cross Training in the Martial Arts, St Nicholas Primary School Priory Road Kenilworth Conact: jamie@clubbchimera.com
Self Defence micro-workshop
Self Defence micro-workshop for “Risk, Resilence & Crisis Management Course”for the University of Leciester. 10:00 – 10:45
Vagabond Warriors
“Vagabond Warriors” Cross Training in the Martial Arts, St Nicholas Primary School Priory Road Kenilworth 12pm – 3pm Conact: jamie@clubbchimera.com
Vagabond Warriors
“Vagabond Warriors” Cross Training in the Martial Arts On the 29th January CCMA launches its first “Vagabond Warriors” workshop. This series of workshops is aimed at martial arts cross trainers interested in functional fighting methods. Although new techniques and tactics may be taught and exchanged, its primary concern is not to teach a system and certainly not a style but to show a different approach to training in more than one martial arts method. It will be based around the […]
Mo Teague’s Hard Target System:Core Seminar & Techniques COR001
Teaching alongside Gavin Richardson, RST, The Zeppelin Building, 59/61 Farringdon Road, London, EC1M 3JB. Contact: Tel: 020 7421 6180 Fax: 020 7421 6181 Email: enquiries@rstlimited.net
Posturing and Blind Spots
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After an extended absence the class returned in fine form and the enthusiasm was as inspiring as ever. A few areas in the warm-up, led by Phil, exposed some all-round rustiness, but once we moved into our MMA lesson muscle memory kicked and it was easy to introduce new areas. Today’s class focused entirely on the sporting side of training. The CCMA approach dictates that we define purpose from the get-go. Sport and self defence can overlap, but their objectives […]
Review of “A Killing Art” by Alex Gillis
Cover via Amazon There have been copious books written about martial arts over the past century. Unfortunately, almost from the beginning, they have largely consisted of peculiar mixtures of mythology, facts and partisan writing. This has continued to the present day. It’s not that there haven’t been good writers or even many useful and enjoyable martial arts books, but very little objective journalism. Therefore books like Geoff Thompson’s “Watch My Back” and Robert W. Smith’s “Martial Musings” made for a […]
Holiday Reading
If I don’t write again for this website before 2010 I would like to take the opportunity of wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Below is some recommended reading material for you to enjoy over the holiday period. I am guessing that it will probably be too late to get hold of them before Christmas, but maybe something to spend your Christmas money and book vouchers on. Daniel Gardner’s “The Science of Fear” is exactly […]
Last Official Class of 2010
Christmas lesson! Okay, so an opportunity to end the year with fun activities that are still relevant to training. A full class engaged in the following: Build-up tig – This is a traditional escape and evasion game. I often start children’s self defence with this to help get across the first message – to avoid and escape. We then varied it with combat base moving, butterfly guard moving, snaking and bear crawling to work through other relevant postures (fighting from […]
Martial Arts Scepticism: The Pornography of Reality-Based Self-Defence
Image via Wikipedia Ockham’s razor is a centuries old principle that argues for simplicity, reductionism and minimalism. Many scientists and a good number of mainstream historians use it to shave off theories that overcomplicate matters. Supporters of Ockham’s razor put forward the idea that when all things are equal the solution that requires the least number of assumptions is usually the correct one. It would appear that this philosophy would be acceptable to the vast majority of those who are […]