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The first trailer of Jamie Clubb's ebook, "Mordred's Victory and Other Martial Mutterings", provides an exceprt with footage of specific training. The ebook contains, a revised, re-edited and newly annotated chapter focusing on this, the highest point of CCMA's "Hierarchy of Training". Order your copy here.

English: Infographic on how Social Media are being used, and how everything is changed by them. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is not an easy topic to address. It is not easy because it concens the potentially negative side of social media again and I duly note the apparent irony. I rely a lot on social media in order to promote awareness of my services and my work in general. This post, like all my online material, will be linked through […]

Sharm el-Sheikh is located on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I guess it is because I started re-reading Peter Benchley’s masterpiece of pulp fiction, “Jaws” that my attention has been brought back to sharks. It is not difficult to find a documentary on these fascinating predators of the deep on one of the TV channels. If your special interest is crime, Nazis or sharks then there is a never […]

Mordred’s Victory & Other Martial Mutterings by Jamie Clubb Release date Sep 20th – Available for PRE-ORDER at Amazon now!!! Collected here for the first time are some of Jamie Clubb’s best martial arts articles. Throughout this book the reader can see the various thinking processes Jamie underwent to create the best-selling and critically acclaimed Cross Training in the Martial Arts DVDs and his unique approach to self-protection and cross-training: Clubb Chimera. Having been born into a travelling circus family, Jamie Clubb […]

Despite there being documented research on the social phenomena we know as “The Bystander Effect” by psychologists John M. Darley and Bibb Latané since 1968[i], most people are baffled and angered when they see it being demonstrated. Multimedia and social media, in particular, have alerted more people to the way humans respond under crisis situations. However, this exposure just seems to have highlighted how little we understand human nature. Instead it tends to reinforce confirmation bias in our belief systems. […]

Most advocates of the cover agree that it is a very natural response during the in-fight stage. Is this really the case? A simple test I use to bring out this natural response is to ask a student to adopt a natural posture to protect themselves against multiple objects. The posture most adopt will be akin to the one a golfer will adopt when they hear the word "Four!" Interestingly if you a throw a single object at a person […]

The cover is a tactic that has soared to prominence in the traditional, sporting and self defence martial arts circles over the past decade. For the sake of clarity I am using the term to describe any of the counter-offensive tactics that involve wrapping the arms around the head. I have seen it in traditional Chinese martial arts, in karate, in silat, in mixed martial arts, in panantukan, in some ju jutsu styles and even in western boxing. The most […]