Watch the Fight

'The fight is my teacher'-- Steve Morris

I used to buy a lot of videos and DVDs of fights, but since You Tube has come along, I don't have to do that. I'm always watching a lot of fights, and let the fight tell me what I need to do. I don't set out with any plan, I just let the information go in and it seems to sort itself out. I use the fight to derive my drills, fighting technique, conditional fighting, play fighting, tactics/strategies and physical training.

On these pages I'll be posting clips that I've found valuable or that I think might be informative for you to look at. Posts are in reverse chronological order (most recent first).

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6 June 2007 -- Spot the Difference

A post on self-protection.com about head guards seems to have raised concerns by Tony K in response to Jon Law’s invitation to a course I'm giving in July at his dojo. See more...

18 May 2007 -- Dog Meat

Now here is a clip of a guy, Ueharu Seikichi, who was seriously deluded with regard to the reality of what constitutes a martial art. Can you imagine what would have happened to him if he would have met one of the Dog Brothers? See more...

23 April-- Cro Cop vs. Gabriel Gonzaga

I've watched this fight over and over again, using the pause control to break down the details of the action between them, and it's pretty obvious (to me, anyway) that Gonzaga's stance, the way he moved, the way he cleared Cro Cop's lead hand and performed a right cross and finally threw a round kick were uncannily similar to the ways I have been practicing and teaching these alignments, tactics, and body dynamics for many years. The details are clearly spelled out on my films from NHB1 (2000) up until the present. See more...

19 April -- Aristotle's Animal

Aristotle in his Treatise on the Progression or Gait of Animals wrote 'The animal that moves makes its change of position by pressing against that which is beneath it'. I first read this line nearly forty years ago, and ever since then I have endeavoured to better understand how the animal, including man, organizes the pressing against that which is beneath so as to facilitate those changes in position and action upon which survival depends. See more...

16 April 2007-- More links on the reticular activating system

15 April 2007 -- No Excuses (Kyle Maynard)

A couple of years ago I saw this young guy wrestling on Trans World Sport. Now the thing that made this particular guy different to any other wrestler who had ever appeared on this TV program was that (due, I believe to a genetic disorder) his arms and legs were stumps.

And the other thing that made him different was that he wasn't wrestling others who were 'physically challenged' (for lack of a better term). He was wrestling able-bodied young men. See more...

10 April 2007 -- Cheetah

Amongst the more intellectual members of KU, there seems to be a problem with understanding what I mean by total body movement. See more...

4 March 2007 -- Round Kick

I saw over on Karate Underground somebody critiquing my round kick on the basis that it didn't comply to the standard shotokan mawashi geri. I know this was meant as a criticism, but I can only take it as a compliment! See more...

16 March 2007 -- Gomi Takanori

Here's an example, not of a fight I've watched and got a lesson from, but a fight that illustrates many of the principles and concepts I've been teaching in action. You can see the principles and concepts on my DVDs and in my seminars, but until now I've never seen them demonstrated so vividly in the ring. See more