Clubb Chimera

I am proud to announce that I was recently invited to join the United Kingdom Martial Arts Alliance by founder, Steven Timperley. I am already an instructor registered with World Combat Arts (from where I deliver Mo Teague's Hard Target courses), the British Combat Association and the Martial Arts Standards Agency, so why join another association? UKMAA is clearly very different and serves another objective, one that renews my enthusiasm for teaching and practicing self protection, combatives and martial arts. […]

Telford Kyushinkai Martial Arts hosts CCMA’s revolutionary children’s self protection and progressive martial arts programme.

A much neglected area of training outside of arts like boxing and muay Thai is striking whilst moving. An even more neglected area is striking whilst moving from any range other than standing. Here we see an example of training in a CCMA class where students are coached to strike whilst moving on their backs (snaking or shrimping). Furthermore, they deal with feedback from their coaches to learn practical defence.

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 […]

Pete Mills, pioneer of top martial arts website "Martial Edge", in action at Clubb Chimera Martial Arts free workshop given at the Martial Arts Festival UK. This is a core training drill used at CCMA to quarry instinctive and individualistic attacking tools. The student being trained uses "Strategy One" (S1), which contains any techniques used to create and maintain distance e.g. striking. The attacking student uses "Strategy Two" (S2) to close the distance. By giving students two different objectives it […]

This is more footage taken from the free one hour workshop given by Clubb Chimera Martial Arts (CCMA) for the Martial Arts Festival UK (MAF-UK) on 4 April 2009. This was the first activity any of the participating students did before moving on the CCMA concepts.

Pete Mills, pioneer of top martial arts website "Martial Edge", in action at Clubb Chimera Martial Arts free workshop given at the Martial Arts Festival UK. This is a core training drill used at CCMA to quarry instinctive and individualistic attacking tools. The student being trained uses "Strategy One" (S1), which contains any techniques used to create and maintain distance e.g. striking. The attacking student uses "Strategy Two" (S2) to close the distance. By giving students two different objectives it […]

Jamie Clubb explains the purpose behind the Strategy 1 versus Strategy 2 pressure test at the one hour workshop given for the Martial Arts Festival UK held on 4 April 2009.