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 [...]

Jiu Jitsu, Brazilian style!

So, I had my first Brazilian Jiu Jitsu lesson last week and it was kinda like having your nuts slapped with a wet towel: painful yet somewhat refreshing!
It was fantastic in fact, the BJJ instructor Arlans Siqueira is a really nice chilled out guy. We started with some light stretches then pretty much [...]

The THUMBS!

Monday nights class was great, after a two week break from training mainly due to work commitments, I returned to a new training schedule and a revamped gym! fantastic. The cool part is that we now have a Brazillian Jiu Jitsu class on Thursday nights! This will be a great addition to training as Golan [...]

Huggy Bear!

So last week I was off training because we had some friends from Oz staying with us, it was great to have them, but after a week of shadow boxing them at various tourist attractions around London I was itching to get back to training!
Last nights class taken by Dean was great, we covered bears, [...]

P1 Grade PASSED!

So last night, we all got together for the grading taken by Tamir Gilad a global KM Instructor, it was a great evening, everyone was pretty relaxed. For me though, the grading was over a bit too soon as I was just starting to get into it when the P1 (basic level) guys had to [...]

P1 Prep

Lately we’ve been doing a lot of preperation for our P1 grading coming up at the end of this month…next week in fact. Its kind of a big deal for the school as a prominant guy from IKMF (International Krav Maga Federation) Tamir Gilad as well as several students from other schools are coming to [...]

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 [...]

Be cool, stay in school.

Heres an article about the school where I train featured in the local Jewish Chronicle the good old JC . It talks about the head instructor Golan Levy and has a brief bit about the history of the style.