3 days eating the mat and punching bags… in review

Very good week of training last week, I attended Krav Maga for two nights, followed by my second BJJ class on Thursday. The week started off easy enough on Tuesday where we covered techniques against low punches to the stomach and defence against a straight stabbing knife attack. On Wednesday we had a very large [...]

Headlock!

No time lately so I’ll just jot these down quick so I remember what we covered…and maybe expand them later.
footwork and shadow boxing.
360 block and counter attacks (knees).
pass guard (pulling it down quickly) clinch, knee.
pass guard, clinch, knee, standing arm lock.
pass guard, clinch, knee, headlock and choke out.
pass guard, clinch, knee, headlock/choke with arm [...]

Dress up to get knocked down

Finally – last night lesson we got to do some sparring! We started class with the usual warm up then moved onto a game where we had to tap the head of anyone in the class while running around the gym protecting our own head. If you get tapped on the head you have to [...]

Choke ‘em out or get kicked in the nuts!

Desperate situations call for desperate measures and being choked by some frog eyed goon is certainly a desperate situation. Lord knows what that pervert is going to do to your limp body once you’ve fallen unconscious after said choke. My friend Mike who for the record is not a sexual terrorist who likes to choke [...]

360 degree defence and how to not get stabbed with a pointy rubber knife

On the basis of how much i enjoyed last weeks class, I paid up for a whole month of beatings at the KM school JOY! and to be honest I really wasn’t expecting to be covering anything nearly as exciting as knife defence techniques on only my second lesson at the school.
So, this weeks warm [...]