Clubb Chimera

Next Vagabond Warriors is 22nd October 2011. Contact me for details.

 We live in an age where information has never been more accessible. Long gone are the days when most martial arts schools jealously restricted their students from being able to train in other disciplines. CCMA was not born out of a tradition or culture, but honours the spirit of the nomadic fighter and the scientific method. “Vagabond Warriors”, created by Jamie Clubb the presenter/writer behind the best-selling DVD series Cross Training in the Martial Arts, offers students and instructors, regardless […]

Functional fitness to specifically develop the action of shooting in for a double leg takedown or tackle. The resistance for drilling this move normally comes from from a pulling action and this exercise can be reversed and performed uphill. However, so long as the plane of resistance is the same there is no reason not to do it from the front. This is designed to replicate the resistance you will feel as you make impact with the shoot.

I found the incline press version to be more intense than the decline one, as there was more direct pressure. It's still an odd way to press and it's merits are debatable over the normal free weight and machine varieties. What it does have in its favour as any of this surreal routine does is that the weights are unbalanced. Big thanks to my family for filling in for ranting steroid meatheads that usually accompany this type of training 😉 […]

Experimenting with the different ways to get the most out of this cart-pulling malarkey and amusing the long-suffering family into the bargain! My only concern with this exercise is that much of the weight is off the actual pectoral muscles.

Okay, I will admit I got this one straight out of Rocky IV. So shoot me! We have to make our own entertainment out here.

This exercise – pulling a weighted cart backwards up a hill – is designed to develop the following: 1. Strong defensive fighting for the clinch against takedowns 2. Pulling strength for high and lowline takedowns 3. Pull strength to unbalance an opponent/enemy 4. Justify training when I should be taking my family out on a Sunday! Don't forget to check out the ClubbChimera.com website for detailed training notes, insightful articles and interviews, and upcoming events for self-protection and mixed martial […]

This exercise, if performed correctly, should work specific muscles to better train lowline takedowns and counter lowline takedowns. It also has benefits for developing the core base for firing off most explosive movements required in combat sports and combatives training. Obvious qualities for this quirky form of exercising over using a standard piece of gym equipment are 1. Uneven weight distribution, which is closer to the feeling you get when fighting another human being. 2. It works core stability. 3. […]

The surreal meets the functional! This is the beginning of a series of exercises using a small donkey cart. The is to develop large muscle groups in line with movements advantageous in fighting. The warm-up is done running forwards pulling the cart. Stability strength begins to get tested as the runner goes down the hill. Although this sort of video should contain a couple of steroid using meatheads shouting abuse from the cart, as it shoots along a specially constructed […]