It has been to long since I posted on this blog and I feel that the time has come to do so. My good friend Mackan asked me if I would get him ready for a MMA (mixed Martial Arts) competition in Belgium in October and I could not resist the opportunity to do some ground fighting and to work on my standing game.
And while my Fiore Abracare skills are up to specs, I am unsure how well they would fare in a MMA competition where the fighting is fierce but you are not allowed to break your opponent or drop them on their heads. So I went looking for an alternative, and decided to use Crazy Monkey Defence, a school I have had my eye on for a long time and really wanted to see if they are as good as their hype.
So last night I signed up to the Crazy Monkey Defence school (CMD) online and have been sampling the boxing teaching on there. I must say that I am impressed so far. I have never been a boxer and although we experimented with some unarmed sparring in our Latvian WSD group it was just a few times other than that, I have no fighting experience from standing up using my hands. Today I met with Mackan and we had our first session. Although I have next to no experience in boxing I could, with the help of the CM1 skills stand my ground and play a good defensive game. Although my punches are ridiculously weak and slow.
I was delighted to see that CMD also had a special Brazilian Jiu jitsu section with some really good videos strengthening my ground game. It was really good to get rolling on the ground and train some BJJ again, I have really missed it (the only caveat with medieval combat training is that there is no ground wrestling. We worked on the four base positions and started on passing the guard. It was a really good workout and I look forward to spending a month coaching a fighter to competition readiness again. It has been way to long!
It is good to do some up close and personal fighting again (not that longswords can´t get up close and personal but, well, there is not much wrestling with longswords, as you do not want to cut your bits off)
Pictures from today will be available on my facebook page.
I am sooo grateful that you took me on, man. It's really fun to roll with you (or rather, to be rolled by you, like a baker rolls a piece of dough. I can only hope to get better!) and all the more fun when I get to hit you in the face as well 🙂
I'm looking forward to our next session and more Jits.
(Tried some of the boxing stuff tonight, while sparring with O, and the defense certainly works. Good stuff!)
Hey Mackan I had fun, and now I am paying for it! I saw the photo of your MIllion Dollar Baby and I thought to myself, that looks like a Crazy Monkey! The hunchback stance and the high guard totally gives it away!
Hah! That is just my teaching her a “bad stance and inproper structure” according to another trainer 😉
Actually, that's the way I have shown her all along, so nothing new and monkey about it 😉 Don't take the credit for that baby just yet…
I am sooo grateful that you took me on, man. It's really fun to roll with you (or rather, to be rolled by you, like a baker rolls a piece of dough. I can only hope to get better!) and all the more fun when I get to hit you in the face as well 🙂
I'm looking forward to our next session and more Jits.
(Tried some of the boxing stuff tonight, while sparring with O, and the defense certainly works. Good stuff!)
Hey Mackan I had fun, and now I am paying for it! I saw the photo of your MIllion Dollar Baby and I thought to myself, that looks like a Crazy Monkey! The hunchback stance and the high guard totally gives it away!
Hah! That is just my teaching her a “bad stance and inproper structure” according to another trainer 😉
Actually, that's the way I have shown her all along, so nothing new and monkey about it 😉 Don't take the credit for that baby just yet…
Hm, just a tip.
There are CMDP(crazy monkey) sessions at mma-alliance in malmö.
http://www.mmaalliance.com/
If your looking to expand your horizons and what not. 😉
Happy new year btw.