Archive for April, 2009

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on April 30, 2009 by His Dark Side

Le Banner works the focus dummy. These moves can be modified for a wooden dummy;

Reign

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on April 29, 2009 by His Dark Side

Reign;

Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2009 by His Dark Side

Controlling games with thoughts;

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299456,00.html

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on April 28, 2009 by His Dark Side

Master Sken kicking;

Bouncers

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , on April 27, 2009 by His Dark Side

funny how we take ‘bouncers’ to be the standard bearers for fighting
since geoff thompson
when truth is bouncers = strength in numbers, often untrained, usually dealing with drunks with poor motor control and visual impairment.

Teachers

Posted in Uncategorized with tags on April 27, 2009 by His Dark Side

The two biggest influences on what I do.

n792815370_3224928_9060I am honoured to have been taught Wing Chun Gung-Fu by Leung, Kwok Keung. I started training with him in 1993 and continued until he passed away in 2004. He was (and continues to be, my beloved ’sifu’. I learnt the entire ‘Hei Ban’ or Opera Company/Red Boat line of Wing Chun from him and am one (of only two) inheritors of the system outside of mainland China. I hope I can keep the torch burning and banner raised for this line of southern Gung Fu.

collage_lb_image_page2_32_1I am blessed to receive guidance from Jesse Glover, who has been a huge influence over what I do since I met him in 2004. A practitioner of Non-Classical Gung Fu, Jesse has given me an understanding of the importance of core, simplistic and explosive skills. He has also helped fine tune my body mechanics.

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on April 27, 2009 by His Dark Side

My coven of fighters had an opportunity to do some grappling. I’m privileged that a top grappling coach and his female assistant took my guys through some ground fighting basics. With some luck, we may have laid the foundations for something special as there is an opportunity for my guys to receive regular grappling coaching. Watch this space, bitches.

I’m a bit sore. My conditioning is good despite not having grappled in a little while.

Rule 1

Posted in Uncategorized with tags on April 26, 2009 by His Dark Side

Rule 1

Close the door on protein powder. say no to pills and concoctions. no creatine, Udo oil. no glutamine. no HMB, testosterone, HGH. No 5 hour energy, Rockstar or Red Bull. No blending milk and powder. No blending bananas. No more blender. throw the blender out of the fuckin window (at a ‘personal trainer’ preferably)  No ephedrine, no diet pills. No thermogenics. No health food shops, no bullshit advice from body builders who know nothing about nothing. No bullshit advice from doctors who know nothing about nutrition. No nutritionists, personal trainers and bootcamp bollocks. No crossfit, P90x, body for fuckin life. No wii fit, no gym fees, no working out like hampsters in a cage on elliptical trainers. No fuckin jogging. I hate joggers. No running, (see ‘ joggers’). no arguing, bickering or politics.

this is the first rule of getting fit and being a functional fighter.

Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2009 by His Dark Side

friday afternoon. decided to make my priority a couple of other things other than martial arts for a couple of days. (all interrelated though). feel good. eating well, really well in fact. need to stay focused and set myself some other life goals.

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on April 22, 2009 by His Dark Side

video showing boxing footwork drills;