Diary / Training Notes

05.09.2025 This morning my client from Cotsworld School of Karate continued working with me on his knee strikes. What we did very much a...

03.09.2025 My 1.5 hour client focused on using and handling the long-guard in Muay Thai and we also did some hamstring strength training. Next week I am booked to teach a special two-hour session to my friends from Hinnerup Karate in Denmark who are visiting my gym as part of their training tour. I have been asked to address the long-guard and therefore, saw this to be a perfect time to work with my longest running client and solve the problem. We sparred for 10 x 10-min

Hour seven of my client’s Mixed Martial Arts course is the second hour back since his full recovery from a motorcycle accident. Having restricted grappling last week to Greco-Roman holds, this week we were able to extend it to grappling holds above and below the waist. Therefore, our sparring focused on developing a hybrid sport of Boxing and Freestyle Wrestling.

My new client came to the end of his 10-hour course. We went through the material with a series of sparring rounds designed to confirm what

08.01.2025 My first 1.5 hour private lesson of 2025 (fourth lesson overall this month) brought us back onto focusing individual...

05.01.2025 Today began my new client's first course with me. After a discussion on what she required, we settled on Boxing. In essence...

10.12.2024 Rather than summing up material covered in this online course with Dunstable's Zanshin Karate, we decided to go in a totally...

10.12.2024 Hour nine of my client's Mixed Martial Arts course continued our problem solving approach to sparring. We ended up focusing...

09.12.2024 My couple client followed a similar lesson plan to my Muay Thai client in my second lesson of the night. However, due to...

09.12.2024 Tonight for my client's ninth hour of his course, we followed a more basic plan. It was time to have a more overall look of...

04.12.2024 Due to an injury, my client and I decided to er on the side of caution and not spar for a change. That didn't mean training...

03.12.2024 Hour eight of my client's MMA course focused on more problem-solving through sparring. Round one was free-sparring where my...

02.12.2024 My second Monday lesson took my couple client to hour two of their kickboxing course. We decided to push everyone outside...

02.12.2024 As stated in the blog title, my teenage client's eighth hour combined both elbow strikes and the switch-kick. We trained the...

27.11.2024 Tonight's 1.5 hour lesson focused put Muay Thai at the centre of the MMA training. We looked through everything using the...

26.11.2024 Hours six and seven were combined in my client's MMA course. We decided to pace the class out over a series of five minute...

25.11.2024 As a change of pace my couple clients, who have just come off three Boxing courses, decided to bridge the gap between this...

25.11.2024 Hour seven of my teenage client's Muay Thai course focused on the switch kick. We used the following rounds to train this...

22.11.2024 Tonight's monthly three-hour workshop focused on Dirty Boxing. That is the tactics and methods used within the clinch. These...

21.11.2024 Thursday night was my 1.5 hour client's MMA training session, where we decided to have a look at MMA from a Boxing...