Sunday, 18 May 2014
Class Notes 17th May 2014
1. Walking with breathing, tense/relax and twisting
2. Pushes / punches
3. Isolating the shoulder vs pushes
4. Selective tension drills
5 Using just the shoulder for punching, standing and sitting
6. Ground movement - using the whole body
7. Ground movement into "get up"
8. Integrated ground movement vs grabs
9. Ditto vs kicks
10. Escaping from grabs on the ground
11. Punching from the ground
12. Free play ground work
13. Difficult positions - knife on ground
14. Freeplay vs knife
15. Breathing
16. Kitten!
Class Notes 3rd May 2014
1. Walking with tense/relax / stretching / rotation
2. Breath holds
3. Basic exercises
4. Tuning in to partner’s movement – catching them off step
5. Capturing / leading movement and intent
6. Weight shift and adding weight into your movement
7. Redirecting and opposing partner’s movement
8. Slow exercises
9. Developing hip flexibility
10. Using the core to power the legs
11. Ground work, using legs only against a standing attacker
12. Ditto against a ground attacker
13. Working against the knife on the ground
14. It’s not so much training what to do, it’s training how
to do
15. Human mindset rather than reptile / predator mindset
16. Slow for precision and development, fast for testing
17. Individual expression according to the needs of the
moment
18. Overcoming or working around restrictions, physical and
psychological
19. Absent friends
Thank you to everyone for sharing today
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Class Notes 26th April 2014
Today's class notes
1. Breathing, tense, relax, stretching
2. Ground movement
3. Pushing with the fist in pairs
4. Striking the attacking arm
5. Defend and counter in pairs
6. Ditto in threes, then group
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7. Use of footwork to break a static grip - move towards the space /
weakest point
8. Add in height change to turn escape into a throw
9. Ditto against grabs
10. Ditto against chokes
11. Repeat against moving opponent - same principle, plus capture their
movement
12. Very soft work in order to "calm" the other person
13. What is in your mind will come out in your work. Internal tension
creates external tension
14. It's what you are rather than what you do
15. Beer!!!
Fear Control Workshop
Here's some notes from the FCW and some footage from the day - the full download is available via the main site
1. Need to control fear rather than be controlled by it
2. Method – innoculation rather than supression / de-sensitisation
3. Establishing fear hierarachy
4. Triune brain theory, agression / predator / human
5. Controlling tension through breathing
6. Basic breath hold and restoration
7. Restoration under discomfort
8. The role of the amygdala / hippocampus
9. The physiology of fear
10. Re-programming the brain, establishing a mindset
11. Using the breath to unlock freeze response
12. Pain management through breathing
13. Basic falls
14. Basic strike management
15. Blindfold work
16. Restoration via breathing and massage
17. Overall principle – to establish a mindeset which can respond to fear /
stress in a rational way, without undue tension and panic. It’s not about
“toughing things out”, it’s about working through a series of drills and
exercises of different intensity in order to undergo an experience you can learn
from. As there were new people present, intensity was kept average to low, but I
hope that everyone gained something from the experience. Thanks everyone who
took part in such good spirit
Thursday, 17 April 2014
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