23.09.2024 My clients had 1.5 hour lesson tonight bringing their Boxing course to the 3.5 hour mark. We trained the following 2-minute rounds bringing some ideas from my recent CPD with Mo Teague: One-for-one sparring Ditto Ditto No guard one-for-one Ditto Ditto Two-for-two sparring Ditto Ditto One-handed sparring Ditto Ditto The lesson finished with some Panantukan knife-drills for fun. Services
01.04.2024 My Muay Thai child client’s second of three lessons in a row. It’s great to see this level of commitment in a student so young, not to mention the support of his father who has trained and fought in Thailand. This time we expanded upon the previous lesson with three minute round versions. I also introduced knee-clinching drills. Services
08.01.2024 As the title states, 2024’s first private lesson saw me move training more towards live and light. My couple clients are into hour two of their current Muay Thai course. This lesson became all about introducing them into more free-flow training. I want them to have more opportunities to make their own decisions, develop better autonomy in their training and to explore techniques. […]
19.12.2023 My 1.5-hour client focused entirely on round kicks to the body. We went into detail regarding rolling the hips and timing for both the rear leg and switch-kick versions. Then we trained the following five combinations: Jabbing cross/rear body kick Push/rear body kick Jab/cross/lead elbow/rear elbow/2 x rear body kick/pull back/rear body kick Lead hook/2 x rear body kick/cross/2 x lead body kick Jab/cross/2 x rear body kick/catch kick/throw/2 x rear body kick These were trained on […]
18.12.2023 Tuesday’s third lesson of the night was hour eight of my Submission Grappling client’s course. It served as an introduction to arm-locks. After warming up with sport specific callisthenics and going back through the pinning flow drill with and without mild resistance, as well as escapes, we looked at the Americana from side control. This followed by the Kimura from the same position and we finished with the arm-bar from full mount. Services
18.12.2023 The second lesson for Wednesday brought my client onto the fourth hour of his particular Muay Thai course were we focused on setting round kicks to the body. We covered using muay femur tactics like stepping back from a low kick to counter with a body kick. Then we trained using a teep feign to prompt the opponent to fire back with one only to be caught off balance with a round kick. Finally we worked on […]
13.12.2023 Wednesday night saw my 1.5 hour client go over most the material I have been coaching recently in Muay Thai. We went through a muay femur countering drill, a muay tae set up for a mid-section round kick against a low kick and a muay femur set up from a teep to the mid-section round kick. Services
03.10.2023 Today’s online teaching consultation with Drum Martial Arts and Fitness in Ireland brought us into hour five. We went back over material covered at Navan Wing Tsun’s hosted seminars. The teacher in question attended my “When Parents Aren’t Around” seminar in Ireland last weekend. I discussed the progress of “When Parents Aren’t Around” and how KEWAP needs to be booked in future. We discussed the way self-protection teaching best be approached in order to get the most out of […]
30.09.2023 Day one and seminar one of my two-day/three-seminar booking for the excellent and forward thinking Navan Wing Tsun in Ireland. Today a group of mixed aged students went through a shortened comprehensive version of KEWAP (Knife and Edged Weapon Awareness Programme). We covered basic self-protection soft skills (personal security) before moving onto more specific edged weapon related material, including the law relating to knives and injuries. Physical training included tactical escape, awareness walking, posturing, incidental weapons training and unarmed […]
28.09.2023 Hour eight of my client’s course on self-protection brought him up to striking off the fence. We began with drilling pre-emption from boundary breaches. Once this was confirmed we moved onto setting the fence, which provides the defender with more time and confirmation that the threat is going to become physical. After some target familiarisation, we moved onto the focus mitts for impact training. This was then turned into continuous striking until the target is covered and paired with […]
27.09.2023 As per the above title, tonight’s training was 10 x 3 minute rounds of Muay Thai focus mitt work. Round 1 – Basic Freestyle Round 2 – Teeps & Jabs with feints Round 3 – Dutch/Muay Mat Combinations (right leg low kick) Round 4 – Ditto (low switch-kick) Round 5 – Clinch (sweeps only) Round 6 – Clinch with knees Round 7 – Elbow combinations Round 8 – Kick-catch combinations Round 9 – Freestyle Round 10 – Freestyle Services
26.09.2023 Tuesday’s final lesson: hour five of my online teacher training course with Hostlebro Taekwondo Klub, Denmark. Tonight we continued with our hard skills training. Areas covered: Tactical Escape – Revision from the previous class Escaping Corners – 1-on-1 exercise with an especial emphasis on hip rotation in order feint and escape Arm Evasions – Simple exercise involving moving around a stationary partner who moves the arms consistently. The objective is to duck, evade and move to their back Corner/Arm […]
19.09.2023 Hour six of my client’s self-protection course moved us from social violence into asocial violence with a focus on predatory violence. We made the differentiation between the two types and also discussed potential hybrids. Harassment, muggings, stalking, kidnapping, targeted assaults, acts of terrorism, arson, rape, molestation, murder and serial or spree killing come done without much argument in the predatory column of violent crime. The protagonist looks at their victim as a target and not a rival. Bullying by […]
12.09.2o23 Hour two of Drum Martial Arts and Fitness teacher consultancy programme on children’s self-protection. The lesson discussed why boundary setting is a very definitive aspect of self-protection training. I brought in the “circle of trust” metaphor to help explain basic boundaries important to children (and everyone). This is a concept that is an important component of the Rabbit programme but it can be touched upon with younger ages. There various ever more complicated and personalised versions of these trust […]
05.09.2023 Drum Martial Arts and Fitness re-booked me for some more continued professional development/teaching consultancy. They are especially interested in my children’s self-protection programme, “Animal Instincts”, (developed in conjunction with Athena School of Karate). This programme is still in development, although we have a deadline for 24th November to launch the “Rabbit” (7-11 year-olds) teaching phase of the soft skills programme online. This morning I discussed our general overview of the programmes and its badge system. Services
29.08.2023 Tuesday’s final lesson was teaching my children’s self-protection methods as a means for instructor development to Hostlebro Taekwondo Klub in Denmark. This is preparation for my “When Parents Aren’t Around” seminars that will be taught over there later this year and also ahead of the new “Animal Instincts” children’s self-protection teaching programme. Tonight we went through an overview of self-protection. We covered definitions, separating self-protection from martial arts. I used Iain Abernethy’s Martial Map, Mo Teague/Peter Consterdine’s personal security/self-defence […]
