 Walking into a martial arts class for the first time can feel like a big step. You might wonder whether you’re fit enough, whether everyone else will be experienced, or whether you’ll be expected to know what to do straight away. You don’t need to arrive with the answers. Your first class is an
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRpJbWGlcTw&feature=youtu.be What is Escrima? If you have never seen Escrima before, one of the first things you might notice is the sticks. This often leads people to assume that Escrima is simply stick fighting. There is much more to it than that. Escrima is a Filipino martial art built around weapons, movement and fighting concepts
We want to say a big thank you to GM Steve Tappin and Wayne Tappin (4th TG) for the brilliant seminar yesterday. It was great to see everyone working so hard and to see so many students grading from the various Escrima Concepts clubs. We had 2 students grade yesterday, so big congrats to Aly
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Well done to everyone who took part in the Urban Escrima Women’s self-defence Workshop at Black Cat Cafe yesterday. We hope you enjoyed it and got some further understanding of reality based self-defence. Thanks to Carla and Nacho for organising and hosting the workshop and thanks to Kris and Cat for running it. Well done
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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP We will be running a Conflict Management Workshop for Urban Escrima students on: Saturday 22nd June from 2.45pm-5.00pm £15.00 (payment made in class) at LDN Fields Fitness. This Workshop will cover the following: Verbal aggressionAggressive posturingInitial contact with aggressorEmotional responsesPhysical responsesPre-emption There will be limited places for this Workshop. If you would like
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Thank you to everyone who attended the recent Workshop on Conflict Management. It was brilliant to see how well students coped under verbal aggression and how they were able to deal with that. These types of workshops are necessary to help learn pre-fight recognition cues and importantly to become desensitised to in your face verbal
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We will be running a Nightclub Self-Defence Workshop on Saturday 5th October from 11.00am – 2.00pm at Roadtrip and The Workshop Bar, 243 Old Street EC1V 9EY. This event will cover realistic scenarios, which take place in nightclub / pub environments and will look at the importance of environmental awareness. Warning! There will be strobe
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9 HOURS OF GRADE 9! Article by Catherine Webb Assistant Instructor at Urban Escrima Ever wanted to spend a weekend at a martial arts seminar? Pack the arnica, you’ll need it. Day 1. 12 p.m. Injuries: none. Actually, technically there’s still a healing scar across my forehead from when I hit myself in the face with my own
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Escrima Concepts Summer Camp – Hamburg What a week! Urban Escrima members had the opportunity to spend a week in Hamburg at the Escrima Concepts Summer Camp. The Summer Camp is one of the highlights in the Escrima Concepts calendar and provides a great opportunity for students to train with practitioners from all over Europe. Urban Escrima members were
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Article by Catherine Webb Over the last few months, I’ve started getting a bit more involved in self-defence stuff, specifically women’s self-defence. I got into this through learning escrima – we take some fundamental concepts and apply them for students who have no martial experience whatsoever, in the hope of giving them an idea of what
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