Session 11-29-09

4 of us today…
45 minutes work with Longsword, mainly worked from pflug plus a little work on duplerin (sp?)
2 rds shadow boxing
2 rds boxing
1 rd heavy bag
1 rd floor bag
1 rd focus gloves
2 rds freestyle footwork
We then threw on our jackets for sambo and did 2 rds of offbalance/grip work. We then worked on a [...]

Session 11/22/09

We started off with about 30 minutes of German longsword today. Mostly working the zornhau into the bind and what to do afterwards.
2 rds shadow boxing
After the shadow boxing we worked a two punch combination for long range using the casting method for power generation. First a long range jab without a step but with [...]

Session 11-14&15-09

Saturday found me in Mechanicsville Maryland at Tim Anderson’s “Maryland Martial Arts”. I gave a 5 hour seminar to their fight team on leg locks, takedowns and takedowns into submissions from sambo. We also worked some casting punches for brutal ground and pound. We also touched a bit on savate since there was some interest [...]

Session 11-8-09

Only Justin and I today…
2 rds shadow boxing
2 rds focused boxing sparring
1 rds heavy bag
1 rd GnP floor bag
1 rds focus gloves
Next up…grappling/sambo
We went without jackets today and had a major focus on getting the toehold correct since I have some sort of mental block about it when rolling. We also did a two foot [...]

11-1-09 Session

Only Justin and I today…
2 rds shadow boxing
2 rds boxing sparring
1 rd savate sparring
1 rds heavy bag
1 rd GnP floor bag
1 rd focus mitts
We threw on our jackets next…
2 rds grip/off-balance work
2 rds gentle freestyle sambo (my shoulder is still screwed so Justin once again took it real easy with me.)
3 rds par terre (ground [...]

Session 10-26-09

Matt had ordered some Cold Steel longsword trainers, they came in, so this was our day to play with them.
It had been a while since any of us has actually worked on any German longsword material. I had been reading up on it for the past couple of months in prep for us starting. We [...]

Session 1-18-09

Just Matt and I today and we are both on the injured reserve
list….so a definite need to take it kinda easy.
2 rds shadow boxing
3 rds sparring
2 rds freestyle footwork drills
We broke out the mountain axes and worked through all of the figure
eight motions that we use in both the right and left hand. Earlier
this week [...]

Session 8-23-09

started with 2 rds of shadow boxing then some interesting combinations on the pads:
1. lead frontal>lead fouette to the kidney>rear fouette to the head
2. lead elbow followed by a rear knee to the thigh or a rear elbow followed by a lead knee to the thigh.
3. while lying on the ground [...]

Session 7-5-09

Three of us to begin with…
2 rds shadow boxing
2 rds sparring savate
We then set up the pads in a corner of the room and did some drills
working on keeping our opponent cornered and also working on covering
and escaping from the corner. We worked on how to deal with swarmers
who do their best to overwhelm.
Our new [...]

Session 6-28-09

Three of us today…
Today we did nothing but work on grappling technique. My shoulder is
still a bit iffy so I took it easy yet again.
Just for a change the first half of our session today was spent on
Ott’s wrestling. Alot of this we had already been doing with the sambo
training…just small variations and grip differences [...]