mixed martial arts – streetfighting

Happy New Year! Osu!

Date: January 1, 2012  Author: Cailey Leave a comment

Happy New Year!

Akemshite Omedeto – Happy new year! Into 2012 and another fresh start. I hope you all have a great year! As usual we follow the Japanese celebration of kagami biraki (“opening the mirror ceremony”), where you reflect on the past year and enter a new period of your life to try and achieve a perfect self-reflection.

Have you set your new year resolutions? How did you do on the last ones? This was one of the toughest years of my life: family loss, debilitating injury, challenging economic times and constant personal challenges to overcome. My tantra of 2011 was “focus and stay strong”. I needed it a lot and it was exceptional useful. A couple of key phrases in fighting helps a lot. A couple of key phrases in life can be invaluable. I am reminded constantly how Bushin helps your everyday life…usually without you knowing it.

So how about 2012…what’s the tantra?

This year we are going to start using the Japanese word “osu” in the class. It is pronounced “uss” (although correctly would be pronounced “oss”). It’s a very traditional Japanese word, originally used in mainly karate and now widely used in BJJ and MMA. It’s originally thought to come from an abbreviation of the phrase ohayo gozaimasu (“good morning”) or onegaishimasu (“please”). It’s made up of two kanji (Japanese characters): osu, “to push”, and shinobu, “to endure”. i.e. it means persevering when pushed, or in other words never give up no matter how hard or arduous. The true inner strength and Bushin martial spirit.

Let’s kick off the year with renewed spirit and energy. We are back at it on Thurs 5th Jan for some trademark turkey busting. Be there to start with a bang!

Sore dewa gambarimasho. Osu!

Merry Xmas

Date: December 17, 2011  Author: Cailey Leave a comment

Dear all,

Thank you for your help and support in what has been a rollercoaster of a year. The club continues to grow in members and improve in standard, despite tough times. In my view, the highlights have been the acting performance at the Macmillan Charity demo and Jason & Aeron’s crash and bash blue stripe grading. I hope you have enjoyed the training and continue along the path.

Have a great Christmas break and hope you see in the New Year with a bang. Look forward to seeing you for the turkey bashing in January.

Best wishes of the season,

 

Cailey

 

Grading is a Smash

Date: December 4, 2011  Author: Cailey Leave a comment

Congratulations to all those that took the grading today. Absolutely brutal and real martial spirit. It was some of the best performances I’ve seen, noticebly from Jason and Aeron taking their blue stripe. Fantastic! Keep up the good work guys.

2012 Programme

Date: November 17, 2011  Author: Cailey Leave a comment

I have now set the programme, based on feedback from members. I have cut down on the number of seminars but organised them so that there is still something every month.

  1. The Self Defence Seminar will now also include weapons defence (knives, sticks, bottles, chains etc) for regulars/repeat members taken from the brown stripe syllabus. There will still be a theory element to it which will be aimed to beginners/new members, but it will be shorter in length.
  2. The stick and knife seminar have been combined to a Weapons Seminar, which will be divided half between the two, with elements of the brown stripe and black belt syllabus.
  3. The Grappling Seminar will be done on a Thursday in Studio 1. Its not ideal as we won’t have access to the padded room at Cobra, but the feedback was that weekends weren’t popular, so we shall have to make do with the blue matts. This will draw in elements of the blue stripe/brown/black syllabus as before.
  4. The special classes on the 3rd Anniversary and Closing Session will continue to give you a taster of some of the advanced elements of Bushin such as trapping, ki work, pressure points, dirty boxing etc.

 

Some of the dates may move around depending on bookings and my personal commitments. Upcoming events over the next 3 months are always shown at the bottom of the webpage. The provisional schedule will look like this. If you ever need to confirm dates when booking holidays etc., please just ask….

  • Jan 5 – First class back
  • Feb 9 – Self Defence Seminar
  • Mar 4 – Grading
  • Apr 5 – Grappling Seminar
  • May 3 – Sparring Seminar
  • June 10 – Grading
  • July 5 – Weapons Seminar
  • Sept 2 – Grading
  • Sept 13 – Self Defence Seminar
  • Oct 18 – 3rd Anniversary (Special Class)
  • Dec 2 – Grading
  • Dec 13 – Closing Session (Special Class)

I hope you will be pleased with the programme. We can always look to change it at a later stage if we get interest to do something differently. I look forward to another enjoyable year. Please do your best to attend the seminar…I’m sure you will get a lot out of them!

Grapple, Defend & Grade

Date: October 31, 2011  Author: Cailey Leave a comment

G&G Seminar – This Sunday 6th Nov

Reminder: We have our grappling and groundwork seminar this Sunday 2-3.30pm in Cobra Gym. This time we shall be focusing on pure groundwork taking mainly elements of BJJ to work on positions of strength and set up some submissions. We shall placing less emphasis on the self defence side of things this time to work on some technical drills to get the muscle memory working. Then of course spar it all in to make sure it works. Bring your spare set of lungs!

Free Self Defence Tasters – 19th/20th Nov

On Saturday and Sunday 19/20th November we shall be running two free self defence tasters. 4-5pm in Studio 1. Invite your family, friends and colleagues to have a go! For those going for grading it will be a chance to get some extra practise in too. We shall be running our usual stand in the foyer on Saturday from 12-4pm to give out some flyers and try to recruit some newbies. Please let me know if you are able to help out…the more the merrier!

Grading – 4th Dec

Apologies but I’ve had to put the grading back to its original date of Sunday 4th December, 2-5pm. We shall be spending most of November practising for it, so those who are going for it, start putting the effort in now.