Hour four of my advanced client’s Mixed Martial Arts and Cross Training course continued our exploration of various different ecological dynamics games. These games were created by various coaches to emphasise transitioning:

A fighter can look competent in separate rooms and still fall apart in the corridor between them. That is one of the most common problems in combat training. Boxing can be tidy. Kicking can be sharp. Wrestling entries can be technically correct. Ground work can make sense in isolation. Then the moment the ranges collide, the student hesitates, overcommits, or reaches for a favourite answer that no longer fits the question. This recent private lesson was about that corri

Intense focus and skill on display as a boxer trains for 12 purpose-driven rounds, emphasizing sparring strategies, attack vs defense, scoring tactics, and muscle release techniques. Read more at Clubb Chimera's blog. Boxing Cross-Training Good sparring is not just “have a round and see what happens”. The best rounds have a job to do. They limit the choices, expose habits, and give the fighter a cleaner way to solve a problem under pressure. For this 1.5 hour private martial

My client from Cotswold Karate School has been taking several months of Muay Thai cross-training lessons. The aim has not been to replace karate with kickboxing. The aim has been to use kickboxing and Muay Thai as attribute training, so certain ideas already present in karate can become more alive under pressure.

A good wrestling round often turns on a small piece of information. Who wants the head? Who is hunting the single leg? Who is trying to get behind to the waist? Once that intention becomes obvious, the opponent can start taking it away. That is why the secret dice game works so well.

Training in mixed martial arts (MMA) demands more than just mastering one fighting style. It requires fluidity across multiple ranges and techniques. Tonight, I worked with a client who has been training with me since 2019. His progress has reached a point where he can confidently switch between different martial arts systems within my 10-lesson courses. Our 1.5-hour session focused on moving through all the ranges of MMA using specific sparring rounds designed to sharpen his