I left the Royal Marines in 2018 after 10 years of service. It was by far the best time of my life and made me who I am today! When I joined in 2008, a tour of duty in an active warzone was almost a given. We were put through 32 weeks of arduous and continuous training with no concept of rest. Throughout the months, a lot of men failed certain areas of training and a lot of men quit. Being young and keen, I managed to push through and passed out of training with only a handful of men that I had started with. When I received the coveted Green Beret, it was then that I knew I was part of somethi ..read more

How many people (mainly men to be blunt), do you know or have you heard  say things such as; “I’m a street fighter” or “I don’t have any training but I have a bad temper so don’t piss me off” or better still “When it kicks off I go mental and just see red mist”? Most of the time you can almost guarantee that this person has had little to no actual combat experience. Ego plays a big part in this false sense of confidence and it can be VERY dangerous to have it. In the next couple of minutes, I will break this down and explain why. THE STREETFIGHTER EXPLAINED First of all fighting is an art ..read more

I’ve had an Altitude mask for over a year now and as soon as people see it they’re either curious to what it is or quick to jump on the band wagon of saying that they don’t work. Then you get their expert scientific opinion of how the lungs work at altitude and before you know it you’ve stopped working out to listen to some stranger’s pointless opinion of something that they know nothing about. In this Blog I am going to try and break down why I use the Altitude mask and what benefits I get from it. I wont pretend to have scientific knowledge or pass ‘Expert comments’ I will simply explain wh ..read more

Using Self Defence for Real In this blog I want to talk about how your Heart rate raising can effect your ability to conduct certain motor skills. No matter how good you are at something or how simple something is, if your Heart rate is too high, you will eventually lose the co-ordination/ability to conduct this action. In this blog we will look at different types of motor skills, relating them to Real Self Defence. We will also look at ‘The Inverted U’ Theory and finally how Krav Maga minimises problems at high heart rate.   There are 2 types of motor skills that you conduct. These are G ..read more

Krav Maga Training Mind Over Body What is more important with Krav Maga Training, FITNESS or DETERMINATION? Fitness levels, often get mistaken for sheer determination and on the other hand, determination is mistaken for Fitness levels. To put it into a context that’s easy to understand, I want you to imagine that there are two people challenged to run 100 miles with 25 kg in their backpack. One of them is an Olympic athlete, very fit, healthy and finely tuned to get the most out of his or her body. The other individual is quite fit, pretty healthy but a normal everyday human being but has an i ..read more

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