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25.05.2025 My couple clients joined me in the morning for a Bank Holiday Monday class. We are on hour three that is currently a...

24.05.2025 During my second Saturday seminar at Cotswold Karate School, we concentrated on Dirty Boxing, which I prefer to refer to as...

24.05.2025 On Saturday, I conducted the first of two seminars for Costwold Karate School, focusing on Chimera Kickboxing. The...

23.05.2025 Hour eight of my Cotswold Karate teacher's course on MMA. Today we continued his theme on closing the distance to clinch...

22.05.2025 The third hour of my teenage client's Boxing course brought us onto the next layer of defence: parries and blocks. We divided...

21.05.2025 My 1.5 hour client continued his Kickboxing focus but we brought in knee strikes, a la the K1 rule-set. Every 3-minute round...

21.05.2025 The fifth lesson at Tudor Hall introduced appropriate prevention and interception methods against predatory violence. During...

20.05.2025 My new client’s fourth hour began with a five-minute heavy bag warm-up. Then we looked to layer on catches and blocks to...

20.05.2025 The sixth hour of my client’s clinch course introduced a type of live flow sparring. We used Greco-Roman and Freestyle...

19.05.2025 Monday night's second lesson. My couple clients continued working on the key-lock in hour two of their Submission Grappling...

19.05.2025 Sorry for the rather misnomer of a blog title, but I thought it was worth highlighting the fact that tonight my two clients...

16.05.2025 My longer-term teenage client rounded off the week with a lesson based on developing fluid positioning. We used the following...

15.05.2025 As with my client earlier in the week, my teenage client’s second hour of training introduced him to catching punches....

14.05.2025 My second lesson of the day was my 1.5 hour session with my longest training client, where we continued our focus on...

14.05.2025 The fourth lesson of my course for Tudor Hall School covered de-escalation techniques and strategy in the theory section, and...

13.05.2025 My second lesson of the night was my new client’s third hour of his Boxing course. We layered in catching along with head...

13.05.2025 My client is in the fifth hour of his clinch-based course. We continued our Greco-Roman/Freestyle Wrestling comparison. We...

12.05.2025 My second lesson of the evening was the first hour of my couple client’s new course Submission Grappling course. We are...

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...