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Getting the Footwork Right in Boxing
22.08.2025 The tenth and final hour of my senior client's Boxing course continued our footwork focused training. We went through the...

Jamie Clubb
Sep 2, 20251 min read


Targeting the body and legs in Muay Thai
20.08.2025 My 1.5 hour client returned to a theme we explored almost a month ago: targeting only the body and legs. This unusual...

Jamie Clubb
Sep 2, 20251 min read


Using the Double Round Kick
Hour six of my client's Kickboxing course looked towards improving more fluidity in kicks. We used the double round kick to improve this area.

Jamie Clubb
Sep 2, 20251 min read


Pugilist MMA
19.08.2025 Hour six of my client's course saw a return to shoot boxing. Given that the restrictions focused on punching with Greco-Roman...

Jamie Clubb
Sep 2, 20251 min read


Boxing Footwork Training
As the title indicates, the ninth hour of my senior client's 10-hour course also concerned footwork training. This is the current theme for him, as well as my teenage client, my couple client and just recently my client who is recovering from a motorbike injury. Footwork and upper body mobility are the foundations for Boxing more than anything else. With these principles effectively in place, everything else makes more sense. Good positioning creates better opportunities, mak

Jamie Clubb
Sep 2, 20255 min read


Footwork & Conditioning
The first hour of my couple client's new course continued my mandate to focus on fitness and retaining skills. We did this through a series of footwork exercises, using the mirrors and also partners.

Jamie Clubb
Aug 29, 20252 min read


De-escalation Training for On Running at Bicester Village
17.08.2025 This morning I was booked to teach the first of a two-part seminar on social violence for the On Running store at Bicester...

Jamie Clubb
Aug 27, 20251 min read


Adapted Boxing Training Concludes
This afternoon's training saw my client finish his adaptive training.

Jamie Clubb
Aug 27, 20251 min read


Using Constraints-Led Sparring to Teach Better Footwork in Boxing
This was the eighth hour of my teenage client's private Boxing course. Tonight we looked at several footwork patterns and isolated them in drills and sparring exercises.

Jamie Clubb
Aug 27, 20251 min read


Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast (Boxing private lesson) - improving footwork
14.08.2025 This afternoon my client entered the seventh hour of his course. This was a private boxing lesson. After the last lesson's...

Jamie Clubb
Aug 27, 20252 min read


Clinch under fire
13.08.2025 My client's 1.5 hour Muay Thai session focused on the clinch. All our rounds used this important area of the art and sport as...

Jamie Clubb
Aug 26, 20251 min read


Chaining techniques
12.08.2025 Hour five of my client's Kickboixng course focused on building combinations. We used the following 3-minute rounds: Teeps to...

Jamie Clubb
Aug 26, 20251 min read


Combat Conditioning
My couple client are about to get married and wished to change the focus of their training on fitness. They also had the added benefit of retaining their skills through a series of cardio-conditioning exercises, going through all the Mixed Martial Arts (Combat Conditioning) ranges.

Jamie Clubb
Aug 26, 20251 min read


Knee Boxing
08.08.2025 My Cotswold Karate teacher client focused on knee strikes today. It seemed like a natural progression from our low kick, Dutch...

Jamie Clubb
Aug 8, 20251 min read


Putting the teep under fire
06.08.2025 Wednesday night's 1.5 hour Muay Thai class concentrated on what has become the sport's most important weapon, the teep. This...

Jamie Clubb
Aug 7, 20251 min read


Countering the round kick to the body
05.08.2025 Hour four of my client's Kickboxing course focused on dealing with the round kick to the body. We are specifically concerned...

Jamie Clubb
Aug 6, 20251 min read


Working the left continues
Hour four of my client's course, where we are now working around injuries he sustained in a recent road accident, continued with work on his left hand. We worked on the focus mitts and belly pad. We also brought in the right hand a little but strictly controlled for speed and touch contact.

Jamie Clubb
Aug 6, 20251 min read


Left hook introduction
04.08.2025 Hour six of my new client's Boxing course. With the foundations laid on footwork, head movement, defence and straight punches,...

Jamie Clubb
Aug 4, 20251 min read


Dutch Influence (reprise)
Hour four of my Cotswold Karate client's course and decided to go back through the previous week's rounds, as seen in this video.

Jamie Clubb
Aug 4, 20251 min read


"Discovering" the uppercut
Hour seven of my teenage client's Boxing course brought us onto uppercuts. I try not just technically teach techniques so that clients learn them in a passive fashion, rather I like to create opportunities where they will use them. Then, afterwards, we look at refining them.

Jamie Clubb
Aug 1, 20251 min read
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