Saturday 25 February 2023

How a class works

 

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How a class works


Each Class session is divided into three sections:

Weapons, Unarmed, and Kickboxing

Kali and Kobudo

There is also drilling from Krabi Krabong with sticks and staff

For this section students need to acquire and bring their own weapons

A pair of sticks and a knife.
A pair of tonfa.
A set of nunchaku, both foam safety and wood/chain.
Bokken, hanbo, jo and bo

Unarmed Combat – Self Protection – Threat Response – Street Fighting 

This is a set of drills students practice with each other.

There is no punching and kicking the air, though we do incorporate shadow boxing.

There is no hard oriental “discipline”, we train in a relaxed and friendly manner.

There is no half hour “warm up”, just some basic stretching.
This is not an aerobics class or a yoga class, it is a Martial Arts skills class.
You spend your time building skills.

If you want to get fit go to aerobics.
If you want to get muscles go to the gym.
If you want to get flexible go to yoga.
If you want to learn to fight – come to see us.

This is real time one-on-one CQC drilling, taken from our core arts of
Karate, Kempo, Jujutsu, Taijutsu, Kali and Wing Chun

This section includes Energy Drills, Trapping and chi sao sparring

At some sessions we put the mats down and practice

Ground Fighting and Ground Grappling

Kickboxing

For Kickboxing you need your own protective gear for partner drills and sparring.
Everything we teach is brought out in kickboxing sparring sessions

Drills and techniques are taken from Karate, Boxing, Savate, and Muay Thai

There is Kickboxing, boxing and karate style sparring

There is impact work on focus pads, Thai pads, and shields.