Diary / Training Notes

20.11.2024 I held my first Introduction to Self-Protection session at Hook Norton's Sports and Social Club. This was a real test for me...

19.11.2024 This evening saw the seventh and eighth hours' of my online ground-fighting course for Zanshin Karate. Tonight we explored...

18.11.2024 The final hour of this 10 hour Boxing course finished with a continuation of our head movement work. We trained the...

16.11.2024 My second MMA seminar for Kingham Hill School this term was with a slightly older group. We got through quite a lot of...

15.11.2024 Hour six of my Cotswold Karate School’s current Submission Grappling course. This morning we worked around my client’s...

14.11.2024 1.5 hour client also focused on cage/wall defence and attack, but the longer lesson gave us more opportunities to expand upon...

Hour five of my client’s MMA course on fighting from the ground off the cage. However, we also varied the sparring a bit. 5-minute -...

11.11.2024 Hour nine of my couple clients training and my second Monday lesson. We continued our head movement training, combining...

11.11.2024 Hour six of my teenage client's course on Muay Thai continued our work on elbow strikes. After a warm-up that including...

06.11.2024 My 1.5 hour client focused on attacks and defences to and from the back. 5-minute freestyle sparring warm-up 11 x 3-minute...

05.11.2024 My Tuesday night client also agreed that turtle in MMA needed work, so we began it with his fourth hour. 6-7 minute warm-up...

04.11.2024 My other Monday night lesson saw my teenage client return for hour-five of his Muay Thai course. Tonight we did a series of...

04.11.2024 My other Monday night lesson saw my teenage client return for hour-five of his Muay Thai course. Tonight we did a series of...

04.1.1.2024 Hour eight of my couple client's Boxing course focused on rolling. This practice is also known as bob and weave, and might...

01.11.2024 Hour five and six were covered with Zanshin Karate's online lessons. At their request, I taught a full deconstruction of a...

31.10.2024 My 1.5 hour client continued on the theme of MMA and our focus went to the turtle position. Our five-minute rounds consisted...

30.10.2024 My client, in his third hour of MMA, requested we look more at striking on the ground. He even suggested a constraints-led...

28.10.2024 My second lesson of the night was 1.5 hour session with my couple client as they reached the end of hour seven. We decided to...

28.10.2024 Hour four of my teenage Muay Thai client's first course and we focused more on the clinch. 3-minute rounds were broken up...

24.10.2024 Tonight my 1.5 hour client took on an MMA conditioning circuit. This sandwiched between dynamic stretching, mobility...