I have a lot of martial arts books, some good, some great some indifferent but I am usually not disappointed when I buy one. A good friend of mine is selling one on ebay and I thought I’d let readers…
Boxing, Martial Arts, MMA
Sweet Science – lessons from boxing defense for all martial arts
by JonLaw • • 9 Comments
We’ve been working on distance and timing recently and this post will attempt to define and illustrate some of that work with video of exceptional boxing defense. I learnt very little about this subject before training at Primal where it…
Cage Fighting, Combat Sports, martial Arts Training, MMA, Self Defence
Self defence classes and MMA share qualities, explosive attacking is one!
by JonLaw • • 6 Comments
I’ve just come across an excellent article which could serve as a great reference for self defence classes but the post reputes that MMA shares principles with self defence. On the whole, it is very good, but it suffers from…
Martial Arts, MMA
GSP v Hardy
by Jon Law • • 1 Comment
After the rather unexciting fight card of UFC 110 this weekend’s event features a Welterweight title fight between Canadian George St.Pierre and Dan Hardy from Nottingham. On the surface it seems as though Hardy will simply be just another victim…
Epic Martial Arts Academy
100 subs made
by Jon Law • • 3 Comments
Went for the 100 submissions last night and made it! Hurray! It took a while to get through them and there were repeats on either side of the body and the same thing done from different positions, but 100 nevertheless.…
Martial Arts, Sports Science
Movement Patterns
by Jon Law • • 0 Comments
Steve Morris talks about the inherent movement patterns underlying human action, and importantly how these should form the basis for all martial arts movement. In fact not just martial arts movement but movement in all sports. He is referring to…