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Urban Confidence

This is a unique seminar combining the fighting and self defence techniques of Urban Krav Maga with the pyschological confidence boosting techniques of Simon Jordan, the UK’s number 1 Confidence Coach. It will be held on Saturday 9 May in East Sussex; check out the website here to book up:

urbanconfidence.co.uk

Fighting on the Buses 2

We’re going to do this very popular seminar again, Sunday 5 April at Plumstead Bus Garage. 10:30am -2:30pm. Price £30 payable in advance please. Contact me if interested.

Instructor Training/General Seminar

Next gig: 13-15 March at the London Fight Factory. See here for website:

www.urbankravmaga.com/instructor-intensive-courses

At this weekend the guys from Scotland will be coming down to complete their instructor training so this will be a very good opportunity to cover the syllabus. Ignore the other dates on the website link above: they will need to be changed – will advise on this tomorrow.

Recently went to the London Fight Factory Seminar given by Wanderlei Silva. thanks very much to the Fight Factory boys for organising and inviting me along – had a great time apart from popping out a couple of ribs and badly bruising the associates cartilages. Looking like it’ll take another 3 weeks to get better; has cost me a few private lessons and a fair bit in physio. Still glad that I went, though sometimes the option of taking up golf seems more attractive at my age.

Good thing about the seminar was the emphasis he put on MMA rather than jiu jutsu groundwork, i.e. in MMA you can get smacked about the face so you need to be aware of this when trying out your pure grappling moves. Salutary reminder for self defence teaching as well: the pure grappling work on the ground can be very satisfying but can all be rendered academic by a good punch, elbow, gouge or butt so we need to make sure that the training reflects this reality.