Movement – Monkey thought for the day!

Awareness of movement. There probably isn’t a combat sport or martial art that doesn’t rely upon movement, many traditional martial arts utilize kata’s and forms to work movement patterns and many contain multi planar movement, but yet often when it comes to the performance aspect (usually sparring) you tend to see predominantly sagittal plane action. [...] Read more »

WarMachine

Adaptability, Scalability and longevity are important to me, be it nutritional needs, training needs or other. Not a lot of equipment I look at hits those requirements. Not the case with the WarMachine, it has to be one of the most adaptable, sturdy and versatile pieces of kit I own. I am no virgin to [...] Read more »

Training with Rodney King (Day 1)

Today has been an excellent training session with Rodney King, today we worked some fundamentals in regard to sparring, such as emotional response and emotional reaction. It is clear when you spar with Rodney that the process is multidimensional, full of complexities such as psychological and physiological response mechanisms. Often we get too tied up [...] Read more »