Lead Story
JKD seniors seminar 4th July
As we’ve had to cancel the seminar with Guru Dan we will be holding a small seminar at the Academy with the instructors being Rick Young and Terry Barnett. Rick is World Brazilian Jiu jitsu champion and a full instructor under Dan Inosanto as is Terry. Both are superb. Cost for the one day is [...]
News
Some Video at last!
We’re on track to get some video onto the site and have just published our first filmed stuff on Youtube. Just tap in bob breen and you’ll have a choice of two clips one is a small overview of some of the boxing classes plus Corey Donghue and Dave Birkett plus Stephanie Dehowes and Fighting [...]
New book ‘SPARRING’ out now!
My new book ‘SPARRING-STRATEGY TACTICS TECHNIQUE is out NOW! It’s had great reviews from lots of instructors who all seem to have read it at one sitting. I hope it goes some of the way to helping you improve your sparring. PHONE THE ACADEMY TO GET YOUR COPY. We’ll also be putting an online shop [...]
Thoughts
Into the voidA good few years ago I did a tour of Italy with a group of other top martial artists. The tour lasted ten days or so and we did demonstrations all over. It was great fun and we got to make friends with some great guys. On the first day all the performers were doing [...]
Training
Evasion basics
The best form of defence is evasion. You can evade passively or you can hit at the same time as evading. This is the beauty of boxing in that most times your hitting your opponent whilst evading his attack. There are basically two types of evading. First with footwork and then with body movement. Becoming [...]
