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TEACHER TRAINING – KEWAP OVERVIEW

October 11, 2023 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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10.10.2023 Today’s online teaching consultation with Drum Martial Arts and Fitness in Ireland brought us into hour six. We finished this current teaching block with a discussion on my new extended and combined KEWAP/CCMA seminar material. The presentations raised some very interesting deep dives into teaching self-protection in relation to edged weapon awareness and in general. “Never give in”, as previous covered, relates to developing an individual’s will in a life-threatening situation. Temporary compliance in certain situations does not mean […]

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Final Muay Thai Professional Development for Now (diary entry)

July 27, 2023 | Uncategorized [ssba]
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25.07.2023 Athena School of Karate booked me for the final in this course of classes on Muay Thai. Next week we will return to the “Learn from the Fight” format. Tuesday morning’s second class saw my client being run through themed 2 minute rounds to test and revise previous material. Round 1 – Teeps and jabs Round 2 – Round kicks and hooks Round 3 – Combinations with punching and low kicks (muay mat) Round 4 – Combinations with elbow strikes […]

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The Grappling Angle (diary entry)

February 9, 2023 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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07.02.2023 Tuesday morning introduced the grappling version of the angling/circling footwork pattern to Athena School of Karate’s course. Due to the large shift in technique from the Boxing and Muay Thai versions, we spent a large portion of lesson going through some stand-up grappling fundamentals. This included the box-step footwork pattern, side break-fall, sprawl variations and the single-leg takedown. A big part of making these wrestling shoots work is understanding the transition from a strike to a clinch. Once again […]

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Continuing the Angle (diary entry)

February 1, 2023 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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31.01.2023 My teaching consultancy for Athena School of Karate continued today with a look at the footwork sequence pattern’s application to Kickboxing and Muay Thai. My client was keen to take a stricter Muay Thai approach. Therefore, the baiting forward and backward footwork became shorter and the circling was tighter. A switch body-kick/rear outside leg kick were chained to the right cross and instead of throwing a left hook after circling with a triple we used another switch kick to the […]

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Protecting the Frontline 12 (diary entry)

May 11, 2022 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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11.05.2022 My teacher client from Drum Kempo Ju Jitsu picked up my self-protection course on the subject of post-incident First Aid. Here we discussed training body check behaviours in students. It’s important for students to have an awareness of new injuries and problems both in their regular training and in a self-defence scenario. We also covered how bleeds are important to locate early for obvious reasons but that certain bleeding can give the appearance of being far worse than they […]

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Developing Sparring Programmes (diary entry)

February 25, 2021 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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23.02.21 My teaching consultancy on Tuesday night was mainly concerned with discussing where to go with a progressing practical karate school’s sparring programme. One point that should be remembered about karate training is that the original katas were based on the assumption that the Okinawan students would be coming from a grappling culture. This is one of the reasons why although there is grappling contained with the katas the emphasis was more placed on training to strike than the grappling […]

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