Here are a few photos that have been mouldering away on my hard drive for several months now. I planned on doing some more but have not gotten around to it.
Problem is, the info on using axes historically is thin at best so there is just not a lot to work with. These are based [...]
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Three of us today…..
2 Rds shadow boxing
2 rds controlled sparring 3 count drill
1 rd speed bag
1 rd freestyle footwork
We then went over a few kicking counters to punching attacks from savate and
then some footwork for avoiding the bull rush type of fighter.
Next up sambo…..we worked on a few of the concepts from Scott Sonnon’s new
book [...]
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A cold one today….I was pretty sure no one was going to show but Justin and Chris both showed up to freeze. Matt was wisely vacationing in Florida. Outside temp 13 F, inside the LOD a scorching 22 F. We found two antique heaters to warm our gloves up in the storage side of our [...]
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Nice warm day with temps into the 40’s F.
Started off with just Matt and I doing sambo…basic warm up followed by some grip/off balancing work.
We then shot a few vids of some technique mainly for our own viewing but we may share on you tube or something. Mostly sambo but we did some work with [...]
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Four of us today…Chris came back after recovering from an injury.
It was a cold one with the temp reading 27 F in our training area.
We threw our kurtkas on for warmth. An extra layer just can’t hurt in this weather.
We started with some work setting up leg take downs by going for one then switching [...]
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The thermometer read 35 in the LOD today but it seemed a litte warmer, either that or we are getting used to the cold.
Three of us today…we had a part timer show up as well but mostly just for a social visit and he left early.
Started with sambo…
1 rd warm ups
2 rds off balancing grip [...]
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