Often in UFC fights the commentators mention the class of fighters post fight. When the match is over they tend show each other respect. For a sport that is so brutal at times, this is always good to see, in…
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UFC 141 Jon Fitch Suffers One Punch Knockout
by JonLaw • • 1 Comment
Jon Fitch vs Johny Hendricks With the UFC being increasingly strict, getting videos that last of Friday nights UFC 141 show is not straightforawrd, certainly ones you can embed. So I’m almost overjoyed to have this link of Jon Fitch…
A Morris preamble…..
by Jon Law • • 9 Comments
Steve Morris Morris Method Introductory Course April 2007 Kings Heath Birmingham Five women and thirteen men from as far as London and Preston, with between 1 and 25 years martial arts experience came to Bishop Challenor Sports Centre for an…
Submissions
by Jon Law • • 2 Comments
Steve Morris will talk about watching the fight, in fact he calls the fight his teacher. At Primal we are encouraged to ‘watch the fight’ and so to learn from the fight. The idea is not to merely observe but…
Paul Daley makes Sanbon Kumite fail!
by JonLaw • • 1 Comment
In the last post featuring the Zaromskis vs High fight there is a great example of how a jazzed up version of sanbon kumite worked in the ring. Mariuis Zaromskis using long steps to make ground on his opponent delivered…
Power Punching: Bending the Bow
by Jon Law • • 12 Comments
One analogy used in martial arts concerns bow’s within the body. I first heard of this from Steve Rowe at Shikon then later Steve Morris. I didn’t find it all helpful initially but now I love this analogy and, importantly,…
Power Punching Tips: connecting the fist to the foot
by JonLaw • • 11 Comments
There’s only so many ways to skin a cat is a phrase that springs to mind when discussing power punching in martial arts. As such the same stuff crops up time after time. The relationship between the floor and the…
What is Karate? Ippon Kumite?
by JonLaw • • 4 Comments
Given the interest in my ‘anti-Karate’ ramblings on here by Karate_Stylist (KS) in his various typo-riddled guises I think it’d be a good idea to try to put forward my point of view as succinctly as possible. I am not…
Apology
by Jon Law • • 3 Comments
I’ve been neglecting the blog, sorry people, will be back at it from now on. I’ve a lot of half-complete material and plenty of planned content, so keep ‘em peeled. Jon Originally posted 2009-06-10 12:57:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Intensity
by Jon Law • • 3 Comments
I recently watched some live Flamenco while away in Sevilla. That region is considered the home of Flamenco and as such there are a lot of live shows. The show we attended was in the Flamenco Museum, which we’d visited…