Fitzsimmons demostrating the foul pivot

Marciano throwing a hook into an illegal elbow

I mentioned this in a comment on the elbow clip a few minutes ago.

Some lead elbow techniques

Milo was asking about our opinions on the lead elbow on the Classic pugilism list…I told him I would vid a few concepts to share. Much easier and clearer than typing them out. I wanted to get them done on the weekend but power problems in the Loft of Doom made that impossible….better later than [...]

Sambo 2-25-09

Matt and I doing a bit of sambo on a fairly warm Wed. afternoon.

Session 2-22-09

We were having power problems in our space today. Right away we blew a fuse, I replaced it. 10 minutes later we blew another….no more fuses and no store open in this metropolis to buy new ones…so we trained until it got too dark.

We went over some of the things we did last week end [...]

Sambo clinic review

 
Matt an I drove out to Findlay Ohio for a sambo clinic yesterday with Mark Tripp….so no training session report for today. 
We spent three hours doing sambo, combat sambo, Russian influenced judo and sambo influenced MMA. I broke my index finger on my left hand within five mins of the start when my finger got [...]

A few simple chokes using the shillelagh

Session 2-9-09

Just Matt and I today…..
2 rds grip offbalancing work
3 rds freestyle sambo
2 rds par terre (mat work)
Best moments…..getting things we learned at Mark Tripp’s sambo clinic to work live! Matt also drove me across the floor landing a very nice single leg on me, growling the whole while!
With the revisions of the Broadsword League rules [...]

Session 2-1-09

A break in the weather. We were blessed with a training area that was 40F today! 
2 rds offbalance, grip work
2 rds sambo 
1 rd ground work
We worked on two simple kicking attacks from savate…displacement with fouette and march croise with mid line chasse. After a review of technique we chained these together making a drill of [...]