Month: May 2021

Having spent the better part of the last twenty years focusing my training on reality, what would really work outside a take-away on a Saturday night, what would really work in a traffic jam if the driver in front gets out of his car and tries to drag me from [Read More]

As well as having spent more than a few hours in gyms and dojos, in rings and on the mats (starting at age 8 with an interest in Aikido, and sampling to different extents Boxing, Judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Muay Thai kickboxing, Catch Wrestling, Japanese Jujitsu, Goshinkwai Combat, and MMA, [Read More]

Let me pre-empt this article by first letting you know that the system I teach in my club is Reality Based Urban Defence. We train for go not show. No sport, just street. I am a certified Instructor in the Real Combat System of self-defence as created and developed by [Read More]

Let me again remind you that the system I teach in my club is Reality Based Urban Defence. We train for go, not show. No sport, just street. Since becoming a certified Instructor in the Real Combat System of self-defence several years ago, I have sought out as much training [Read More]

As mentioned in my previous article (Training for Reality Part 1: Aggression), my writing comes not from the fantasy-world of a Hollywood screenwriter, nor from the rampant imagination of a teenage boy who has played too many computer games. Rather, my experience has been first-hand, working both with and against [Read More]

Communication is at the root of everything. Whether it’s written, or verbal, or demonstrated. As martial artists, every bit of what we know was communicated to us, at some point, by some person. As the internet has grown and taken hold it’s made an impact on everything that we do [Read More]