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Wednesday, 4 July 2012
STMA Summer Camp 2012
Kali
Kempo
Jujutsu
Environmental training
Ground fighting on real ground
Weapons defence - gun, knife, stick, bat
Multiple opponent techniques and tactics
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UFC
First ever fight was a "tall skinny kickboxer" against a "huge sumo grappler"
"the grappler will get him to the floor"
"all fights end on the floor"
"he won't be able to kick"
"the grappler is too big and strong"
and what really happens?
Ken Shamrock analyses:
and all the fighters are saying "Shit" What have I gotten myself into?!"
"the grappler will get him to the floor"
"all fights end on the floor"
"he won't be able to kick"
"the grappler is too big and strong"
and what really happens?
Ken Shamrock analyses:
and all the fighters are saying "Shit" What have I gotten myself into?!"
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Tesseract
The Tesseract is the kata - the hypercube is KarateDo
The Tesseract is the hypercube unravelled
the cube is the tesseract unravelled
The techniques are squares - sets are cubes
kata is tesseract
karatedo is the hypercube
Bunkai is kata unravelled into series of applied techniques
tesseract unravelled into a cube
Bunkai is kata unravelled into series of applied techniques
tesseract unravelled into a cube
Tesseract
Take six cubes.
Arrange them into the shape of a crucifix.
Take two more cubes
stick them either side of the crucifix
at the point where the cross is made.
Now you have a tesseract.
A tesseract is a 3 dimensional object.
A tesseract is also a 4 dimensional object
a hypercube
unravelled.
A square unravels to a line.
2 dimensions unravel to one.
A cube unravels to a cross.
3 dimensions unravel to two.
A hypercube unravels to a tesseract.
4 dimensions unravel to three.
You exist in three spatial dimensions.
In the same way that a one dimensional person
could not visualise a 2 dimensional square,
or a 2 dimensional person could not visualise a 3 dimensional cube,
you cannot visualise a hypercube.
A hypercube is a thing you are not equipped to understand.
You can only understand the Tesseract.
You can see the thing unravelled
you cannot see the thing itself.
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
White Tiger Kempo Jujutsu
Kempo Jujitsu
or Kempo Goshin Jutsu
is a complete unarmed combat system
based on Japanese empty hand Martial Arts
the rapid hand strikes of Kempo
the kicks, punches, blocks and strikes of Karate
the devastating and effective self defence techniques of Jujitsu
the joint locks and throws of Aikido
the throws, chokes, strangles and ground fighting of Judo
Practical Realistic and Effective Close Quarter Combat
Saturday, 21 April 2012
Sherlock Holmes Kempo
The 2 fight scenes from Sherlock Holmes where he plans the sequence of moves before he executes them:
(this one you need to follow the link for:)
http://youtu.be/2_vbmZJBXSA
and a classic old clip of Holmes in a bar fight putting a cad in his place:
and remember:
"Only a ruffian deals a blow with the back of the hand. A gentleman uses the straight left."
(this one you need to follow the link for:)
http://youtu.be/2_vbmZJBXSA
and a classic old clip of Holmes in a bar fight putting a cad in his place:
and remember:
"Only a ruffian deals a blow with the back of the hand. A gentleman uses the straight left."
Thursday, 16 February 2012
White Tiger Integrated Combat Systems
Sunday, 12 February 2012
White Tiger Mixed Martial Arts MMA Vale Tudo
Vale Tudo literally means "anything goes". It is where Martial Artists meet to try all out fighting. It is very different from the watered down safety ruled MMA of today. See original UFCs 1 to 5 for details.
Vale Tudo is to MMA what bare knuckle boxing is to boxing or original Muay Thai, with rope bound hands and full contact elbows is to modern Europen Thai Boxing.
MMA sparring is a safe way to combine kb and grappling.
MMA, in it's basic form it is a combination of kb and rolling.
OK, we deal with the vertical grappling phase with Thai HKE and we practice various throws. But, if you watch MMA, you rarely see a skilled throw, and never an "ippon" that finishes the fight - it kind of just goes to the ground and it is there that you need rolling skill to finish.
We do this by sparring until a clinch occurred generically. As you know from boxing matches, this happens all the time.
We remove the vertical grappling deliberately by freezing at this point, then kneeling, to continue with rolling. This practice also gives the fighter who prefers to wear boxing gloves for the kb phase to remove them for grappling.
We examine the element that in MMA and VT there will be striking in the ground phase, not just submission wrestling.
We capitalise on the MMA on the mat by having the usual "wood" kb, mat rolling, and then Mixed Martial Arts on mat mixing the martial arts of kb and grappling.
(Maybe we could call this MWTMA - Mixed White Tiger Martial Arts!?)
What we also do is look at the throws and takedowns phase seperately.
If you watch UFC and MMA contests you don't see skilled throws as you do in Judo or wrestling.
The reason for this is the striking at the vertical grappling phase. In Judo you grab on and then fight for throws. The same in wrestling. When your opponent is hitting you with knees it changes the game.
You do get a lot of improvised takedowns -when the knee-er is on one leg he is easier to off balance. Also the leg can be caught. But the grappler needs to be wary of being hit with that knee.
And in VT or street combat you will also have to worry about the elbow and the head, the full HKE.
So we will drill skilled throwing, and those who want can practice Judo randori and wrestling freestyle.
However for MMA we need to do realistic drilling that incorporates the HKE in the vertical grappling phase. Once we have this we won't need to "stop and kneel" everytime.
(Though stop and kneel is a good isolation exercise)
Similarly, in the kb we play the Thai knee phase.
In Thai, there is knee sparring where you tie up and fight with just knees, which is an important phase of Thai and a great skill in itself. If the opponent goes to the floor in knee spar, in Thai you break. In MMA, VT or Street, you would follow in with a strike - a drop knee or kick.
The Thai "throw" is called a "thum" and is a very effective throw for VT.
White Tiger Mixed Martial Arts MMA
At STMA we have 4 main kinds of sparring:
Kali - kickboxing - unarmed - Vale Tudo
each of these has 4 phases to it.
Kali:
double stix
single stick
stick and knife
knife and hand
Kickboxing:
savate
thai
kickboxing
boxing
unarmed:
karate
chi sao
randori
ground TNS
VT:
this is a mix of striking and grappling
- in the unarmed phase this blends kb and grappling with strikes on the ground
- the the armed phase this allows a stick fight to go to ground
so the 4 phases are:
kb
groundfight
stick fight
stick ground
each of these sparring phases has drills which can be isolated
eg sinawalli with double stix
thai pads for thai
etc
The next progression is iso sparring:
box - hands only
kb - kickboxing
kix - kick only
box v kb
v kix
kb v kix
add lo kix
kb
kix
box v kb
v kix
kb v kix
add knees
box w knees
kb knees
kix knees
box v box knee
v kb
v kix
box knee
v kb
v kix
kb v kix
Shiro Tora STREET FIGHTING Reality Training
Those of you who attend my classes and read my published work will be aware that I don't tell a lot of "war stories".
You will know I was a bouncer for 10 years and everything I teach for reality is based on that - reality. But I don't talk about it a lot or focus on it. You may have wondered why.
(It is why I am so down on kids who still live at home with their parents who think they have been trained by Israeli commandos to be deadly streetfighters - that is just a fantasy that will get you hurt or killed!)
The techniques and tactics that worked for me I taught to my students who worked on my door teams and the methods worked for them as well.
I had many students and clients who I also taught my method to who were never on the frontline at the weekends but for who, through law of averages, came up against the need to defend themselves on occasion, and also found our method to work for them. These were far less regular, but did occur and I am glad to say the "victim" came through unharmed.
It is a mistake to concern yourself too much with HOW my fights happened.
When I was working in a venue I was in a position of power and authority. I would be approaching difficult customers from that perspective, to ask them to calm down or leave. I was taking control of an escalating situation.
You will be in a place minding your own business and somebody will approach YOU and "offer" you violence.
So we start the training from THAT point - from the Fence when the attacker has approached YOU.
And the techniques we teach will work the way we teach for YOU from that point.
Train for reality - don't go into theory or abstraction and certainly don't go off into FANTASY.
You are not a Shaolin, or a Ninja, or a Samurai, or an Israeli commando. You are not even a bouncer. But you are being trained by a bouncer who has trained other bouncers and other "normal" people who have used this method in self defence on numerous occassions over a period of more than a decade.
Keep it REAL!
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The best defence against a Choke.
Bite.
(Remember - Dogs don't know kung fu)
Don't open your mouth wide or try to take a big bite at once.
Nibble. Like eating sweetcorn. Take out tiny chunks in quick succession.
He will pull away.
If he is in distance, bite his neck, ear, nose.
If a man has closed to grappling range and got you in a choke he is a dangerous opponent. He has got passed your punches, kicks, traps, locks, HKE, chokes, and got you in a clinch and out manouevered you.
You MUST use 100% response and your most deadly response.
Bite.
You have been practicing this move 100 times a day for at least 3 sessions a day your whole life. It is your most practiced move. Pull it out when you need it - it won't let you down.
White Tiger Martial Arts
The BEST defence against a weapon
Defang.
Take the fang.
Attack the hand holding the weapon.
Use angle #2.
Aim for the back of his hand.
If you have a blade cut his hand, cut the tendons on the back of his hand.
If you have a stick, smash the small bones in his hand.
As soon as the hand holding the weapon comes into range, attack it with #2.
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The Three Levels of Threat
At STMA we deal with Threat Response. We find this a more positive term than "Self Defence".
When an enemy attacks you and you DEFEND yourself you REACT to his attack.
With our method you RESPOND to his THREAT.
You are choosing the appropriate method of Response. You are acting not reacting.
Action always beats reaction.
With this in mind we need to decide the level of threat before choosing our response.
There are three levels of threat:
SIMPLE
SERIOUS
LIFE THREATENING
With any threat, get your Fence up so you have your PE ready, as well as all your backup. At this point you must assess the situation to make sure you choose the appropriate level of response and stay within the Law as regards reasonable force.
SIMPLE threat:
A non physical common assault.
An aggresor who steps into your space making a verbal assault, but who does not physically attack you.
You may feel afraid for you safety, or are at the stage when you are about to become so.
A simple threat can, and often is, defused without the need for physical violence.
SERIOUS threat:
An aggressor becomes an attacker, makes a physical assault, intending to cause you injury and pain. The effects of his actions, in the eyes of the Law, would be classed as Actual Bodily Harm or Grevious Bodily Harm.
You are at risk of being hurt, cut, feeling pain, or having a bone broken. You have the right to defend yourself from this attack.
You have the right to use a PE.
If you miss the PE phase, as often happens, you have the right to use all your backup phases - kicks, HKE, chokes, trapping, throws, to end the encounter, to stop the attack, and minimise your physical suffering.
Your attacker has invited your violent response, so don't be afraid to use it.
LIFE THREATENING ATTACK:
This is the most serious level of attack.
Your life can be ended as a result of your attacker's actions.
This is almost always the case if a weapon is involved, especially a bladed weapon such as a knife, and always if there is a gun.
This does not just refer to a life ending attack, one that would end your life, but also a life changing attack, but one that would change the quality of your life.
You must do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to stop this attack and SAVE YOUR LIFE.
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White Tiger Martial Arts
Savate 10 ABCs:
Jab, pied bas, chas bas, revers, cross, fouette figure
jab, jab, lo cross, fouette - bas, r bas, figure
jab, cross, fou bas, r fou fig, chas bas, spin rev fig
jab, hook, r fou bas, rev, spin chas bas
jab, cross, chas bas, spin revers
jab, chas front, hi fouette, lo rear fouette
jab, cross, jab - r chas pied, chas bas, spin rev
jab, cross, hook, h fouett, lo rear fo bas, front chas
jab, f bas - fouette, C, J, dis chas
fou lo/hi, cross, jab, r fou bas, chas front
5 leg def ABCs:
rear fouette - esquive, parade, fouette rear bas, f bas,
cross, fouette fig
rear chas front - soto uke, cross, fou bas, fig
lead fouette - esquive, r cut bas, jab, cross, fouette bas (guard)
lead chas front - ged bar, pied sweep, fou fig, pied
kaak - jab, cross - dte
5 hand def abc:
against double jab
parry, slip
cross, spin revers, fouette, chas front
against jab, cross - parry, slip
lo/hi hook, cross, fouette bas, spin revers
against jab, cross, jab, r fouette bas
parry, slip, slip, shield
loop
direct, fouette, direct
(#5 tba)
10 boxing ABCs:
J C J
C J C
J C J C
C J C J
C H
RU RH H
RU H C
J C H
J C H RU C
Double jab, C
Set 1 remains the same and is still the foundation for boxing training - ABCs on pads
Set 2 has been worked out to a and b and back into a comprehensive set
Set 3 was previously single move defence and counter and has now been expanded to make defensive ABCs that flow together.
There is a also a progressive box defence set in the savate syllabus, which is designed for partner work, but can work with pads.
Box set 1:
J, C, J
C, J, C
J, C, J, C
C, J, C, J
C, H
RU, RH, H
set 2:
Double J, C
J, C, H
- J, C, H, RU, C
RU, H
- RU, H, C
H, double H, lo hi
set 3:
parry J - J, J, C
salute - H C
BW H - C, H
BW RH - H, C
Thai
We have a comprehensive list of Thai ABCs to work on the pads increasing in complexity and adding use of defensive moves
Thai pads:
chok J, C
sok elbows
kao knees
long kao
clinch kao
kradot
dte
tiip
J, C, H, dte, kao
J, C, sal, sok, kao
kaak - double dte
JJ, dte, duck, dte
Thai set 1:
a. J, C, H, RH, kao, double dte
b. elbows
set 2:
tiip, dte, kao, clinch double kao, elbows, kradot
set 3 def:
par C, sal H - sok, sok, kao, dte, dte, C, H, dte
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I Ching in White Tiger Kali
An STMA innovaion is to apply the Chinese I Ching to the Filipino Martial Arts.
We do this in 6 count sinawalli.
The Heaven symbol being the unbroken single line for High Heaven strike
The Earth symbol being the broken double line for the Low Earth Strike
we now have 8 drills:
HHH - heaven
HHL - wind
HLL - mountain
HLH - fire
LHH - lake
LHL - water
LLH - thunder
LLL - earth
you will notice the deliberation of opposites:
fire and water is obvious
as is heaven and earth
wind, substance without sound vs thunder, sound without substance is more subtle
the next phase is to split the count in half.
In Heaven 6 you would do HHH then HHH.
What you do in "64" is mix and match.
So you do HHH then HLH
or HHH then LLL
etc
After HHH on the left there are 8 possible trips to do on the right.
Then you go to HHL and do the same, each with 8 answers.
This gives a total of 64 possible combinations, which match the 64 hexagrams in the I Ching.
Or for those with a mathematical or computing mind binary to base 8 to hex.
White Tiger
Yea though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death
I shall fear no evil
Coz I'm the evilist motherfucker in the valley
Meijin means a master of the martial arts.
Tatsujin means a "completed human being".
It is very difficult to become a complete human being.
To live as a human being means you are not obsessed with who is weak or who is strong.
An animal has to be strong to survive in nature.
Humans can live regardless of their outward strength.
This is the most important realisation of the Human Fighting Arts.
To work to be a meijin is to miss the point.
In STMA, we are not trying to be masters of the individual fighting arts, we are working towards being tatsujin, complete human beings.
Be a White Tiger, not just a person "doing" White Tiger Martial Arts.
White Tiger Kickboxing
White Tiger Nunchaku
The nunchaku is the third weapon taught at STMA after the stick and the knife.
It appears in FMA as tabok tayok as well as in Okinawan kobudo where it bridges the unarmed phase of Kara Te.
All nuncha waza are combats moves not meanlingless flashy techniques and are taught one at a time with their full application against other weapons, starting with the stick.
Monday, 6 February 2012
3 new STMA Black Belts!
Monday, 30 January 2012
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Karate Do
Friday, 27 January 2012
Cage KOs 2011
Dave O Donnell shares his Top Ten KOs of 2011.
Interestingly most of these are still punches.
There is one kick, a spin backfist, and one brilliant kradot kao flying knee.
Through most of the fight clips you see very little except punches.
Mark Weir of GTI TKD, a former champion and master kicker, is KOd twice here when his kicks fail to land.
Fights that go down come back up and the punching starts again, it doesn't flow into grappling.
The message that hand range is still THE range in combat still stands.
Interestingly most of these are still punches.
There is one kick, a spin backfist, and one brilliant kradot kao flying knee.
Through most of the fight clips you see very little except punches.
Mark Weir of GTI TKD, a former champion and master kicker, is KOd twice here when his kicks fail to land.
Fights that go down come back up and the punching starts again, it doesn't flow into grappling.
The message that hand range is still THE range in combat still stands.
Sunday, 1 January 2012
STMA 2012
Shiro Tora Budo Kai
White Tiger Martial Arts
White Tiger Martial Arts will be looking to develop our members in the following phases this year:
Karate
5 step, 3 step, one step kumite
jiyu ippon - semi free one step
5 star and 5 star step
karate sparring no pads
we are also looking into further developing SC KB - freestyle karate ABCs and the use of light pads including forearm pads to fill in the gaps in the progressive sparring
Savate
ABCs:
the savate drill list is pretty much set now so members need to learn the list and start applying the ABCs in partner drills and bring it out in sparring.
Impact:
during the boxing focus pad drills we will add the use of savate kicks, in particular the fouettes.
Later we will work to make specific ABCs work on pad as we do with boxing.
Wing Chun
Chi sao
A compehensive set of techniques for chi sao as partner drills then brought out in chi sao sparring
WC Self Defence
similar to kempo but worked in the trapping range
closing the gap (Chum Kil) from kick to punch to trapping range
simultaneously block and strike (lin sil de dar)
NRG:
dan chi, dan chi in roll, bon lop and awase are the prime WC NRG drills.
In addition we have the mantis spring drill to fill in the gaps
hubus seq from kali
Thai
impact:
more padwork and the use of thai ABCs on focus pads including knees and elbows and defensive moves
thai partner drills
knee sparring
boxing:
sparring
more boxing sparring including isolations
use of headgear for those that want to develop
Kempo:
regular use of the kihon and MKs so all members become familiar with these
regular practice in the list of 150 to develop your unarmed combat
Jujutsu:
newaza:
now we all do groundbud, we will work to perfect the drill and add to your list of working ground techniques
mat throws:
more regular throwing practice
Kali:
largo mano:
more drills in the long range, and use of the longer largo stick
STMA Wing Chun 2012
STMA Jujutsu 2012
newaza:
now we all do groundbud, we will work to perfect the drill and add to your list of working ground techniques
mat throws:
more regular throwing practice
10 locks:
5 Hiji - elbow:
ikkyo - oshi taoshi - straight arm bar push down
ude gaeshi - figure four arm twist
hiki taoshi - inside arm bar push down
ude hineri - branch up arm twist
waki gatame - arm bar
5 tebuki - wrist:
kote gaeshi - wrist twist - supination
kote hineri - wrist turn - pronation
nikyo - hon gyaku - bent arm wrist bend
tenkai kote gaeshi
tenkai kote hineri - into sankyo, then hiki taoshi
Nage - Throws
5 STMA Combat Throws
Cross hip koshi guruma
Flying mare seionage
Morote Nage double leg td
O soto gari outer reap
Brazilian clinch
The 10 STMA Jujusu throws:
5 Koshi Guruma or Cross hip or Hip Wheel
Tai Otoshi - body drop
Uchi mata - inner thigh throw
Harai goshi - sweeping hip throw
Seoinage - shoulder throw or flying mare
5 IRIMI entering techniques
O Soto Gari - major outer reap
O Uchi Gari - Major inner reap
Morote Gari - double leg takedown
Single leg takedown
Brazilian clinch takedown
STMA Boxing 2012
10 boxing ABCs:
J C J
C J C
J C J C
C J C J
C H
RU RH H
RU H C
J C H
J C H RU C
Double jab, C
Set 1 remains the same and is still the foundation for boxing training - ABCs on pads
Set 2 has been worked out to a and b and back into a comprehensive set
Set 3 was previously single move defence and counter and has now been expanded to make defensive ABCs that flow together.
There is a also a progressive box defence set in the savate syllabus, which is designed for partner work, but can work with pads.
Box set 1:
J, C, J
C, J, C
J, C, J, C
C, J, C, J
C, H
RU, RH, H
set 2:
Double J, C
J, C, H
- J, C, H, RU, C
RU, H
- RU, H, C
H, double H, lo hi
set 3:
parry J - J, J, C
salute - H C
BW H - C, H
BW RH - H, C
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