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12.05.2025 Hour four of my senior Boxing client’s third course. Tonight we balanced skills with conditioning, although not strength...

11.05.2025 Ahead of festival attendance and various other activities that are putting teenagers aged 16 and up at potential risk, I was...

10.05.2025 With a strict restriction of just six participants, the Animal Instincts physical skills syllabus is content dense and...

09.05.2025 My last lesson on Friday continued my usual Tuesday client's work on Wrestling disciplines in his fourth hour of this current...

The first set of exercises was the goblet squat to open up the hips and promote better mobility. It is also good for muscle activation,...

08.05.2025 I began yet another new Boxing course tonight with a new client. This client is a teenager who has recently started training...

07.05.2025 My 1.5 hour client continued with his exploration of our kickboxing hybrid. This time we put the focus more kicking with the...

07.05.2025 The third lesson in my course for Tudor Hall School looked at management of fear in the theory section and looked at...

06.05.2025 Hour two of my new client's course on Boxing. Work continued on improving his head movement. I used the following rounds to...

05.05.2025 My couple clients reached the end of their current course on Wrestling. Tonight we reviewed the material with rounds focusing...

05.05.2025 Okay, it's far from an original title even on here, but I couldn't think of a better way to describe some honest revisiting of...

02.05.2025 Hour seven of my MMA course for Cotswold Karate. This morning we switched levels to the double collar tie/plum/Thai clinch....

01.05.2025 Boxing's defensive tools are broad and varied. Despite the modern version of the sport only really having four techniques -...

30.04.2025 My 1.5 hour client decided to focus specifically on punching and kicking tonight, a blend of Boxing and Muay Thai. We...

30.04.2025 The second lesson in Tudor Hall School's course discussed awareness in the theory section and we layered on tactical escape in...

29.04.2025 My new client began his first Boxing course with me. He has decided to pursue the full Mixed Martial Arts route - 10 hours...

28.04.2025 Hour eight of my couple client's course continued our focus on the double-leg takedown. We looked at adjusting distance and...

28.04.2025 Hour one of my client's third Boxing course has a strength and conditioning element. My client is in his sixties and has...

25.004.2025 Hour six of my Cotswold Karate School client's course (teaching consultancy and martial arts cross-training). This morning we...

24.04.2025 "Kill the body and the head dies" is a phrase attributed to Hunter S. Thompson, although he is not its originator. Thompson, a...