A quiet week this week but a good session nonetheless! A warm welcome to our newest member who did exceptionally well with the hammer fist striking we worked on! Very natural movement and stable posture all round. Taking a simple exercise and making it horrible: shifting weight forwards, backwards or sideways to change the emphasis … More Training Notes – 13.02.2015
Consterdine, Peter and Thompson, Geoff. Ultimate Self-Defence Seminar. Protection Publications. 2005. Review: Ultimate Self-Defence Seminar: by Josh Nixon, ESP This video is one of those well-known ones, considered essential by many, that you often hear about as an instructor. There’s good reason for that. ‘Action beats reaction’ – this is the key understanding that makes … More Review: ‘Ultimate Self-Defence Seminar’ by Peter Consterdine and Geoff Thompson
Blood Trials: An Experience of Fear, Adrenaline and Unconsciousness by Josh Nixon, ESP Update: It turns out that all of this is down to a neurological condition I have since been diagnosed with called Neurally Mediated Syncope. Due to an over-excitable vagus nerve (which has a finger in all the pies, neurologically speaking), my body was … More Blood Trials: An Experience of Fear, Adrenaline and Unconsciousness
As you all know by now, the CSPS is an evolutionary concept and I pretty much apply that philosophy to everything I do, including my writing. At least, that’s the excuse I’m going to use for my complete and utter laziness of late with these training logs. As the year has become busier and busier … More Training Log–January 2013
Consterdine, Peter. Powerstrike. Protection Publications. Review: Powerstrike: by Josh Nixon, ESP This review is part one of a two-part series. Part two can be found here. Powerstrike begins, as with many of the British Combat Association’s videos, by making a very important point that all who are interested in practical and realistic self-protection should take … More Review: ‘Powerstrike’ by Peter Consterdine
The snow is always a trial for training that tests us all before we even start! Especially in a country that famously grinds to a halt every time the fluffy white stuff makes an appearance. Last Friday, we got down to some padwork getting some awesome effort out of the students we had. Only three … More PHDefence Training Log–18.01.2013
This is a belated post, I do apologise. PHDefence training logs likely will be often as training is 19:00-21:00, I always remain available for questions and general chat afterwards and the venue for them is a chapel so there’s a load of chairs to put back in rows afterwards in the hall they use. As … More PHDefence Training Log–04.01.2012
It always feels so long when we miss a week! Today, we went through some of the old Wing Chun stuff from a couple of weeks ago with Paul, and then some pretty fun ground mobility drills. After, that I took the high grades through some more advanced striking methods for their next grading, and … More PHDefence (10.12.2011) Feedback
Review: ‘Systema Basics’ by Cutting Edge While it is of course true that one cannot endeavour to effectively learn a martial art or combative system from videos and books, such material can prove invaluable when supplementing existing training, or if you just want to learn a few new concepts to add to your training. This … More Review: ‘Systema Basics’ by Cutting Edge
Hi all, It’s been a while! PHDefence has still been going strong, but I’ve just not been posting. Busy, busy, busy. PHDefence was awesome this morning despite the low numbers again. Paul took them through some epic drills – really fun and unique too – I couldn’t help joining in; it was really enjoyable! I … More PHDefence (19.11.2011) Feedback (and a general update on everything…)
Evolutionary Self-Protection 