Saturday morning’s two-hour remote martial arts teacher training saw Hinnerup Karate in Denmark return. Having covered boxing over their past two two-hour lessons online, they decided to switch to kickboxing. This is all part of me helping train their instructors and senior students to better teach a kickboxing program that will be integrated into their practical karate syllabus. We discussed that the best way to teach this was to train the basics of boxing and then integrate

Training footwork is one of the most challenging aspects of martial arts, especially when teaching remotely. Footwork requires precise movement, timing, and spatial awareness, which can be difficult to convey through a screen. Recently, I worked with the head instructor of Drum Martial Arts and Fitness in Galway, Ireland, focusing on improving his footwork using boxing as a model. Boxing offers some of the most refined footwork techniques among combat sports, and the L-step i