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27.11.19   Wednesday’s lunchtime lesson continued my self-protection course at Kingham Hill School. Today we continued our work on combat grappling and anti-grappling. This included working from the clinch and the ground. We warmed up with various clinching drills taught in the previous lesson. This included neckties, under-hooking and wrist-grips. Then I had one student resist whilst the other tried to pull them off balance with a grip. This was an exercise to get the foundations right when being grappled. […]

15.09.16 Tonight’s double lesson comprised of the second and third classes in my client’s course on Basic Muay Thai for Martial Arts Cross Training. This is the fourth and fifth lessons in my client’s second course of classes with me. We split lessons up into kickboxing skills and Thai clinch-work. I like this format when it comes to Muay Thai as although these ranges converge and over-lap they are quite distinctive stages of a fight. The kickboxing class mainly looked […]

I write this piece during the season of Halloween. It’s a darkly creative time of year for me for many reasons and I do my best not to allow my personal preferences for enjoying scary stories and many of the various tongue-in-cheek customs intrude into my self-protection writings. I have other outlets to indulge and express many of the fantastical elements associated with this particular festival. However, here and there certain things do cross over. One year, for example, I […]