Sundays memorial seminar to Honour Roger Barnes went really well. . It was mothers day so we were really pleased with the turnout. Teaching was done by Grand Master John Harvey who turned up to support plus David Onuma and myself. John is an old academy member and trained with me for about twenty years [...]
The next grading will be on Thursday the 25th of March. Starts at 7.30.
There will be grading focused classes on Monday Tuesday and Thursday. I want everyone to grade but only when they are ready. Gradings are a good way of marking progress and covering different techniques and concepts. If you don’t feel you are [...]
Lots of people keep phoning saying ‘ Where are you? ‘ ’ I used to train at the Academy and want to come back’
So here’s directions from the old school in Hoxton square. Come out of the Old school and turn left, walk up to the school and pub on the corner. Turn left there. [...]
Like most people I feel the need to be more organised and I try to fit the most I can into my day.
Having small ten minute slots for doing your cardio or yoga stretching or for drilling is I find more approachable and at least it gets done that way. Being overly ambitious you put [...]
We’ve had problems with getting our email for quite some time. Today we have changed to a gmail account which is also the link on the website. bobbreenacademy@gmail.com If you need to get in contact just use the link. We’ve been working on a lot of these background technical problems this week so things should [...]
Congratulations to Carl Jackson who won the WEKAF British Championships in the double sticks and Silver medal in the Single stick category. Carl has been focusing on his stickfighting for a year or two and it’s paid off tremendously. Carl is an all rounder despite his stickfighting achievements and is featured in my book on [...]
We’ve had lots of people wanting to join recently but we’ve had to put them off as I’ve been in China and we also wanted to bed in the training at the new venue for the existing students. Beginners should now attend on Tuesdays at 7.30 and Thursdays at 6.30 as we’ll have time to [...]
The recent B.I.G. BREEN INSTRUCTOR GROUP seminar was a huge success. Many of the instructors who came said it was one of the best seminars they’d ever attended. As usual we had a wide variety of people from all over Europe. Florian Castellano whose currently World Pancrase champion said he learnt more in two days [...]
The urban knife day was a great success. As usuall those attending had a great time. We mainly focused on knife defence showing all the various knife tapping methods. The reason for tapping is that you can’t deal with the knife in the position it’s in and have to move it to a position where [...]
Ian Oliver’s hugely successful Boxing Fitness book has now been turned into a training DVD and is available from the club. Ian has done a great job assisted by some of the Academy A team. Dave Birkett, Corey Donoghue and others. If you don’t have the time to get into training or just want to [...]
