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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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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By GM Steve Tappin A longer post than usual as there is no short answer to this question – read on if you have the time – Moral obligations of training with weapons! I have often been asked is it morally right to teach weapons in martial arts? In short yes, but to satisfy the question honestly
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By Catherine Webb There is an old phrase – “those who can: do. Those who can’t: teach.” It’s a dubious sentiment for many reasons, but one which has been on my mind recently. I’ve now been learning escrima for nearly four years, and have taught a little bit of women’s self-defence via its organisation. Also in
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Original article from www.loveeast.london What is your class and where does it take place? We run Urban Escrima – a martial art for self-defence – at London Fields Fitness Studio. We started our training sessions and workshops around six years ago. Some of our work is with weapons such as sticks, but everything has an
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Thank you to GM Steve Tappin and Wayne Tappin (4th TG) for an excellent, hard but fun seminar. Thanks to all the Escrima Concepts clubs who came down to support the seminar, really appreciated. Big congrats to all those who passed their grading yesterday:Mark – grade 6Ben – grade 6Dave – grade 6Stuart – grades
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