Copenhagen Combatives™ blog is about self-defence training, how to avoid violence, outdoor and urban survival, training methods, new scientific discoveries on physical and mental performance enhancement. This is an informative page about our fields of interest and what we do, for those who do not use Facebook, where our main page and forum are. Sincerely Kim Hansen, trainer for the Copenhagen Combatives™ Group For more info mail to me at (delete this)cph.combatives@gmail.com
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Add this exercise to your training session for a dynamic warm up! Exercise of the Day: Thai Knee Combo Bodyweight Exercise
Post-Apocalyptic Survival with Filipino Martial Arts
To keep myself and those around me safe, I will look to keep my mind and body sharp with the use of martial arts training. Of course I’d like to arm myself with firearms, but in Ireland, these are hard to come by, and what happens when the bullets run out? My martial art of choice is the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA), more commonly known as Kali, Eskrima, or Arnis (depending on where it originated). Specifically, the Doce Pares style of San Miguel is my choice. By Dave Hedges
Read the article http://mymadmethods.com/articles/conditioning-articles/1224-filipino-martial-arts-techniques-for-survival
Dave Hedges is a multiple-issue My Mad Methods Magazine Contributor. Check out his articles in past issues: Click Here
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Free Indian Club DVD with purchase of Grey 2lb Indian Clubs!!!
An amazing good offer from My Mad Methods
This week only, You will receive a free Indian Club Instructional DVD w/ Dr. Ed Thomas with the purchase of our GREY 2lb Indian Clubs. Indian Clubs are a great way to improve joint mobility!!! They help to enhance body flow and increase shoulder, elbow, wrist durability.
Offer Expires on 07/8/2012
5 Fitness Attributes That Could Save Your Life
Your heart is pounding in your chest as your fingers grip the ledge. Sweat pours down your face and your muscles start to tremble. You don’t dare move, but you can’t hold on much longer. All you hear are footsteps and your heart beating like a drum from deep inside your heaving chest. You close your eyes and think: Cardio, I need more cardio. That was rule #1 in the movie Zombie Land, how could you forget to train your cardio? Well, it’s too late now cream-puff. You are running for your life and that step class you dropped out of can’t help you now. Your weak cardio and under trained legs aren’t going to get you out of this mess. If only you could go back in time and train like an athlete instead of an underwear model.
Shawn Mozen is a multiple-issue My Mad Methods Magazine Contributor
Our two week poll resulted in Ancient Training Methods getting 34% of the vote. Arguments For & Against Crossfit received 31% of the vote (and will be the Oct/Nov 2012 issue).
This issue would highlight the use of training methods used by people over the last two thousand years, focusing a lot of attention on club training techniques. It would also contain articles about how people used to stay “fit” by simply surviving in hostile environments with little access to technology.
Wellington Megaton Dias - Meet Megaton's X-Guard - BJJ Weekly Issue #109
The thing you gotta love about Megaton is he is always learning the newest techniques. Never to rest on the Jiu-Jitsu from 25 years ago, Megaton demonstrates a tricky x-guard technique which he transitions into a sneaky "kick-out" back take. Take your time learning this technique and start slowly to get a feel for your opponent's base and balance.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Kratos Combatives™
The
Copenhagen Combatives™ Group has expanded from teaching only AMOK!™ to also
Practical Combatives™ after Kim Hansen passed the test with a 100% score, but
have also launched a non AMOK! related project called Kratos Combatives™, it’s
a laboratory were we experiment the use of any kind of weapon from any time in
history and country. It’s to see if we can transfer our skillset to any kind of
weapon, we have always done that but mainly with short blades, machetes, stick,
improvised weapons, empty hand combat, flexible weapons and projectiles.
The
challenge is now to transfer to as an example 2 handed European swords, sword
and buckler, quarter staff, katana, tanto, tonfa, war clubs from various
cultures, this depends on how many weapons we can find to spar safely, if there
is no safe alternative do drill with them, use instruments that closely
resemble them that are safe for full on contact sparring, or make the ourselves
as we have done in the past.
We
do have steel swords for sparring, bucklers, real and blunt plastic tomahawks
and other weapons, good for drills but not safe enough to full on contact, I
have broken 4 steel swords in 1 year, one of them was extremely heavy as it was
built to be indestructible, this shows if you are able to use the body in
perfect harmony you can destroy anything even thick solid steel. This is the
main reason to choose the safest instrument and not the perfect historical
correct replica of a weapon, if you want to train against fully committed
attacks the chaos when fighting at full speed and maximum intent and power,
safety is the primary priority.
One
of our main objectives is to use time on unequal use of weapons, as stick vs.
knife, sword and dagger vs. staff, sword and buckler vs. 2 handed sword. Most
of this kind of training can be done with NOK knifes and padded sticks of
various length, as we have 45
cm , 60
cm , 80
cm and planning to buy two 135 cm . Most martial arts
spend a lot of time on fighting with equal armament, but that is highly
unlikely scenario today, the world is not fair when it comes to real violence
and combat, to find out what the weakness and strength of any weapon it is
better to discover it by fighting against other weapons and not the same.
We
have 2 groups, Copenhagen Combatives™ and
Kolding Combatives™, to take a scientific approach we will choose a
specific configuration, if the other group can replicate the success rate then
we can assume that it is a validated high % solution to a predicament. If the
opposite happens then its either not a high % solution as the other groups
empirical test does falsify the assumption, or it’s based on difference in
skill level.
The
Kratos Combatives™ site is at the moment only in Danish and the link address
will change and be in English also, as it is a temporary site, it is to launch
our project to the public when the site is finished we will write an update.
Link
to our site http://kratos.vpweb.dk/
Wellington Megaton Dias - Meet Megaton's X-Guard - BJJ Weekly Issue #109
The thing you gotta love about Megaton is he is always learning the newest techniques. Never to rest on the Jiu-Jitsu from 25 years ago, Megaton demonstrates a tricky x-guard technique which he transitions into a sneaky "kick-out" back take. Take your time learning this technique and start slowly to get a feel for your opponent's base and balance.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
We are drinking too much water
Our
bodies need about two litres of fluids per day, not two litres of water
specifically.
In an Editorial in the June issue
of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health,Spero Tsindos from La
Trobe University, examined why we consume so much water.
Read both links to get the complete info
http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Waterlogged?associate=7089
Wellington Megaton Dias - Takedown like Megaton - BJJ Weekly Issue #108
This week Megaton goes to his "A" game from the feet. Megaton as some of you know is a high level Judoka and in the world of BJJ he is the most feared from the feet. Megaton shows us a nice takedown which does not compromise your own position. Try it out and make it your own!
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