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March 2012

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Why Fight?

Although there is a certain confidence that comes from knowing you can hold your own in a fight, that isn't the point of combat training - not for me, anyway. Recently, whilst training, I was struck by how odd what I was doing must seem to people who have never trained in combat. I thought it woul...

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En Garde!

Firstly - for the sake of accuracy - my stance in this picture is not en garde. It is the cool and far more effective stab-le-camera stroke, of myth and fable. I am one of only 17 people in England to have mastered this attack in the last 300 years, one of whom was Sir Richard Francis Burton (aka ...

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Me. In the Olympic Stadium. IT’S HAPPENING!

Thanks to some incredibly generous donations, I have now raised enough money through the Gold Challenge that they are going to let me run do my 100m sprint event in the actual London 2012 Olympic Stadium, in front of 20,000 people! Do I know how to sprint properly? No. Will I learn how to sprint ...

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