Monday 5 November 2012

NEW CLASS - Monday 7th January 2013

IMA / Combative Fundamentals Class

Starting Monday the 7th January 2013 I will be holding a new session for those interested in Combative training from the ground up.  

With the information base coming from the internal arts and real combat experience the Fundamentals training will combine innovative body work training, realistic combat drills and combat methods for all ranges and situations. 

The aim of this 1 year training is to bring about a good level of skill within a year. I will back up the weekly training sessions with a monthly 4 hour evaluation session to give more detail and see where the group is at any point.

An rough outline of the course is shown below. Please not that although the first few months will be focused primarily on health, fitness and body development the program will always include some 2 person training in all sessions and all work is combat relevant. The sessions will work top to bottom so for the first few months this can be viewed as a health and fitness class in many respects.

At the end of these first sections you can expect to be, stronger, leaner, more co-ordinated and better able to move with purpose.

Please inform anyone that is interested in training from the ground up, be them experienced martial artists looking for a new dimension to training or complete beginners looking for something new.

This going ahead is based on numbers so please let anyone you can know!


Body skill training
-          Basic Body strength
-          Basic Connection
-          Flexibility
-          Fluidity
-          Natural movement
-          Contextual movement patterns

Line training
-          Targeted tissue development
-          Linking the body
-          Continuation of body skill training

Level 1 Training
-          Fundamentals of stand up wrestling
o   Listening Skill
o   Push & pull
o   Twist & cross
o   Catch the joint
o   3 pillars of throwing and take downs
-          Fundamentals of striking
o   Mechanics of alignment
o   Mechanics of generation
o   Force transfer
o   Placement
o   In/out – open/close
-          Continuation of Body skill training

Level 2 Training
-          Range training and Listening skills
o   Free work feed drills
o   Movement flow drills
o   Kick>punch>elbow>grapple listening drills
o   Multiple opponent flow
o   Pad work
-          Knife
o   Check training
o   Move training
o   Hit training
o   Flow drills and integration of strategy
-          Self defence considerations.
o   What is it
o   What do we need to be effective
o   What DONT we need!
-          Continuation of body skill training.

1 YEAR MARK

Level 3 training
-          Advanced h2h combat training
o   Will be explained at this stage **
-          Advanced Self defence
o   Will be explained at this stage **

** This part of the training is reliant on the foundation/fundamental training that precedes it and the content is not usefully explained unless that training has been completed. No secrets, just reliance on previous fundamentals.

Thursday 1 November 2012

UKIMA training session Clip.




This is an overview of a recent UKIMA training session covering application of some Pi Quan concepts, held at Seishin Dojo MMA & BJJ centre in Gloucester UK.

Covered was:
Relevant warm ups,
Bodywork, 
Connection,
Striking
Angulation
Gripping to control retreat
Tempo and Rythm 
Movement
take downs
and free work.