Hit harder than Tyson? with the new DVD

From the shoulder to the knuckle 3 DVD set

For MMA and self defence

The first DVD The kinetic punch, goes into detail showing you how to line up your knuckles correctly, and how to say goodbye to wrist pain, the kinetic punch can’t be learnt in boxing gloves because of the thumb position which is all explained clearly, and with comparisons with the standard boxing punch. After discussions’ with my students we decided that there was about a third increase in power with the kinetic punch compared with the boxing punch, so I’ve put it at 30% making it significantly more powerful and concussive.

So how come nobody’s come up with this already?

Nothings new it just comes around again, the DVD is based on my study and my passion in life thats power striking.ive been training since 2003,and ive been teaching for the last five years.I was taught very similar styles from 2 people for self defence, Dennis Jones a doorman and lifelong martial artist(karate)with 26 years experience and my close friend Martin Grithis. Through my training and teaching I realised that I could train people to punch significantly harder without gloves, after training bare knuckle a while, I remember when i first put on a pair of boxing gloves and couldn’t make a fist?and then when I threw a punch at the heavy bag and nearly broke my thumb! This was because the thumb position didn’t allow me to land with the full kinetic chain after a few more years study of the kinetic chain, and more development I realise this punching style can be used in MMA. I’ve always loved MMA and their not using this punching style at the moment, it’s not a huge change in style either just some adjustment “from the shoulder the knuckle” and there’s an instant 30% increase in power just by lining up the wrist and knuckle correctly. And because of the angle change when you throw, it stops you from throwing out your little weaker boned fingers first so it also significantly reduces the chances of a boxers fracture; it’s all explained and demonstrated in detail and remember this punch cannot be taught in modern fixed thumb boxing glove which most people train in.

The second DVD of the set is on the three shockwaves that I teach. They are a type of accelerated leaning tools that I use to teach people how to properly finish a strike; these allow you to refine your precision, explosiveness and power. there’s the light shockwave ,the deep shockwave and the ripping shockwave, the more you train the first shockwave the better the second will be and so on, each shockwave steps up in power and explosiveness by about a third, That means that with every punch you throw you will have an option of which shockwave to “add on “the end. So not only do they give you pin point explosive punches at a level above and beyond what you already know. And that’s including Boxing and Muay Thai style punches. Another real beauty with the shockwaves is they can also be trained on the end of any strike you choose to throw, whether it’s a punch, kick, elbow or knee and the benefits are the same for whichever limb you choose to use, more power precision and explosiveness fast.

The third DVD is a session with one of my students a kick boxer, I run him through the material from the first two DVD’s and you can learn a lot of smaller tips watching other people learn. So first I run him through the three shockwaves improving his power as he trains, then I introduce him to the kinetic punch and not only does he realise no pain in his hands or wrists but his power really levels up and goes  from tapping to smashing in one session.

So that’s all one groundbreaking 3DVD set and its available now!!! For £29.99 here’s the link!

power punching 3 dvd set

another level with the palm heel

Boxing punch/Kinetic punch comparison

Here's a look at the kinetic punch compared with the boxing punch,you can see the punches on lewis are not thrown no were near full power.but the only true way to understand the difference is to either hold a pad for a comparison or get taught it yourself.

My profile part two

Well its now almost November 09 and I have to say it’s been one of the most interesting  year and a half I've had have from discovering the delights of a very heavy bag, or I should say various heavy bags in different shapes etc really to find out what works best for each strike, ! I had always trained for the one shot KO and was at the point of putting out a DVD when I realised there more, the mistake I made earlier on in my training was not using a very heavy bag to learn real power generation, I had trained KO power in my slap a good while ago and the drop step felt very natural but as soon as I started on the big heavy bag the drop step stopped and the stepping and launching became the one way that worked the best and the only way that didn't hurt, if something’s not lined up you’ll know on a good solid bag but I really feel I've reached a point now in my search for the best(the most power) and most natural movements,

But what’s made the biggest difference has been studying and training with Dennis Jones, He spent 25 years on the door perfecting the art of the one shot KO. Since I started my search for most powerful mechanics has taken me far and wide and I've not seen anyone who comes close to what Dennis does, the similarities were clear to what I was already doing. If in danger strike the head with hand strikes until safe pretty simple basics really, with gouging ,ripping, biting, clawing when you can’t use a strike, the one thing he stuck to was honesty  and what became quickly clear was that he wasn't in it for the money there was no “system” and in fact the basics were what worked 99.9% of the time and even the gouging etc was really back up to the strikes, yes basic anti grapple was learned and whatever  felt was needed was trained for, but with a high percentage of the training in the striking that’s what gave the high percentage of success. This may sound simple but there are a lot of little details that makes what Dennis does very advanced, honed on the battle ground he’s spent most of his life perfecting what he does and he does it a hell of a lot better than me

And I feel that what I now do has changed so much from the earlier clips that I've taken some of my older clips down and will be replacing some and adding more over  the next few months, the basic slapping(bearpaw) I used to train is still what I consider still the best I could teach for a day course in basic self defense/combatives, but if you’re going to spend any real time training then I I've believe Dennis has found the most basic and effective combatives  out there

I'm not a student of Dennis just a friend who’s added lots of his principles to what I do, he’s not teaching a system and basically says he retired, what I really find interesting is how few people have asked him about his training in the past?

Right back to me so I now feel from a going physical point of view that I've found the best mechanics’ positioning set-ups etc.  that honesty and experience can buy and I'm going to spent the rest of my life perfecting it and teaching it to others

And I thank you Dennis for making such a huge difference in my life

Karl

Oct  26 09

it was around this point I started looking and focusing on the punch and this is were my punching videos started on YouTube

I will update my profile sometime in the future haven't had chance to write it yet!

My profile part one

                                                                My profile

                                       “Keep it simple in the street mate”

I’ve never gone looking for fights, but I have a serious ability to wind people up! In my younger days I was in around 12 fights (I never found the need to keep count) and won most of them with no skill at all just pure violence and aggression/determination and also lost a few, I’ve also been attacked with knives twice in my teens. (Details are in the knife defence training thread)

In 2003 When I decided to move into martial arts it was purely for one thing, it was to find the best way that I could protect myself in a violent attack. I was fortunate to have Martyn a good friend who had been training for many years helped me get started, he had trained in karate and moving on to jkd and had studied some of Geoff Thompson's stuff (I learnt a lot from his books even before I started training, Jamie O’Keefe has some excellent books as well) he also had touched on what I call combatives what works on the street for the individual

so my journey started from an advanced point, I was always told to keep it simple even though I wanted to get more and more technical more martial arty 

“But look I can spin him round after catching this” etc

But Like a lot people in the martial arts I was searching for the “holy grail” of techniques

                                                         
I’ve studied many systems from martial arts to combatives (combatives was the nearest thing I found to reality) and I’ve never believed what people say unless I can test it myself to see if it works at full speed full power and aggression. And found many times that out of all the things that work at half speed, a very small number actually work at full speed, or are very hard to pull off in a pro active environment

After some training with my friend martin a former bouncer who hits like a train.

I started training with one of his instructors Carl Lewis (hits like a train with a jack hammer on the front) from Wrexham an excellent jkd/self defence instructor in his own right

My very first lesson with him was on open handed strikes and I was surprised that I could do them quiet well(but not hard by any means) after that the lessons were back to punching etc many lessons and hours of punching, bruised knuckles and sore wrists(some injuries I still have problems with now) I found it was hard enough striking a moving maize bag with commitment, one mistake and I would be training with one hand for weeks, that’s why I switched to open hand and all the problems I was having getting with punching stopped, It also felt a lot more natural to me

I learnt loads from Carl, he went into detail on avoiding violence, target hardening etc, something I realised had been doing all my life but not understood the detail, I’ve never gone looking for trouble and since the age of nineteen haven’t had to use violence on anyone, I’ve always done my best to avoid it. That’s 19 years of avoidance, staying aware, target hardening etc,

It takes a bigger man to walk away!

From the moment I started learning jkd I realised a passion for learning/teaching I loved to share ideas And talk amongst students about different ideas and concepts,
I spent thousands on DVDs and books on what else is out there?, searching for info and soaking it up like a big sponge, at first I was all for learning anything the more complicated the better, mart was always in my ear

                           “keep it simple on the street mate”

  

One day Carl my jkd instructor mentioned a name of a DVD

 “Jim Grover’s combatives series”

That was it! on the Internet again, and it was ordered
Well it was certainly a revelation for me, as I’d been using open hand strikes for a while that’s one of the many good things about Carl he realised self defence was a very personal thing

“Keep what YOU need, throw away what YOU don’t” Bruce Lee

The big difference I saw was a strictly one sided attack

” I don’t care what you’re doing I’m doing this!”

“Martial arts are what you do WITH people

Combatives are what you do TO people” Jim Grover

The core of which was always simple gross motor skills, basic strikes and serious aggression

I was having regular sparing matches with my brother at the time; he used to take the p*ss out of me because every week I found something better, or a better way to strike, most of which made very little difference when I put the gloves on anyway

One week I turned up and cycling was my new technique (I saw it first on Lees Urban combatives site where it was pictured, but didn’t understand it until Grover's DVD),

I didn’t tell him (he’d only take the p*ss) we started sparing give and take, give and take then I tried cycling head down moving forward with a barrage of strikes, it shut him down straight away, “what was that!” he said pulling himself of the wall

“combatives” I said with a bloody big grin on my face!

After a few more tests it soon became clear that whoever went first was the one left standing at the end, so that was the end of the sparing sessions, well sparing give and take any way!

Every friend that turned up at my house got a lesson in cycling, my passion new no boundaries, and occasionally you could tell by the look on my mates face’s they were thinking  “this f*ckers obsessed”

I felt that I need to branch out to truly discover my own way what I preferred.

I stopped training with Carl, to concentrate on my own training extensively at home, after training with martyn and Carl and through Jamie’s and Geoff’s books, I realised there was one very important thing I needed and that was the ability to hit seriously hard (which I’m still working on) regardless of whatever else I learned if I couldn’t hit hard I was wasting my time.

I empted my cup of all the previous techniques and concentrated on that

Through many hours training getting sick to death of the repetition after repetition my favourite strike started to show through, and quickly became a very heavy slap, from lots of angles with or without a base.

I had been teaching a friend at home and he said you should give the way you strike a name, I had not seen anybody striking in the same way I was, and it was different to the gutterfighters strikes, Peter C’s power slap etc

So the bear paw was named

I never claimed that it was original just that it was different to what I had seen

I’ve spent thousands of hours training my own body to find out the best way I work and the best way I can stop someone from attacking me. I’ve studied many systems from martial arts to combatives  

After a session at Dennis Martin’s international 05 and confident in my ability I started training with Dennis martin’s gutterfighters in late 2005 and quickly realised a lot of my training was very static, and that you had to be able to strike on the move with a more varied arsenal

And realised the importance of realistic training/pressure testing and learning to strike with a constant change in the location of the body.

I found I could help the guys in class with their power whichever way they preferred to strike, so I was always offering hints and tips and free lessons


peter (slackybladder, one of dens instructors) came for a visit and I also invited Manchester budo down for a session early in 2006(that was at a very interesting southnarc seminar)
They were very impressed, that’s when I decided to put a post on Geoff’s old forum

“Ever heard of a bear paw?”

Why? Because I realised that I could help people increase the power of their strikes, and I loved to teach it

I found there was lots of interest in my strike and I got asked about it many times at various seminars and classes
Rob came over from Ireland to train and Simon even trained from Tokyo

And I had some excellent reviews

The problem was the bearpaw was overshadowing the fact that what I was doing was teaching people to hit harder.

It also showed that the “holy grail” thing from martial arts has also carried over to combatives.

 I’d seen so many people busy filling up there brain with techniques when they didn’t have a clue how to really hit hard

If you can’t hit then you’re just going to make someone a lot more p*ssed and more a lot more aggressive

In my time with the gutterfighters I attended many of Dennis martins seminars, including some excellent instructors Lee Morrison, Si Squires, John Brawn, mika, Alan Beckett, Mick coup etc

I filmed many of the ones I attended, and spent hours studying them again and again, and also purchased many DVDS and did the same with them

With my obsession with hitting hard I was always fascinated by the way other people hit, and through study and training grew to fully understand not only how they were hitting hard but also that everybody’s different and everybody has their own way

But broken down into basic components there was always similarity’s 

Staying relaxed

Violence and aggression

Footwork

Breathing

(See the power generation thread)

Components that I was already using with the “bearpaw” long before I trained with den

I also realised that a lot of the self protection that was what was being taught across the board were very similar with very similar themes e.g. avoidance, staying aware etc

And the only big difference was techniques being taught and the way they were applying power in there strikes all of which were very individual to the instructor.

But there were also instructors trying to get students to hit the same as them instead of just applying the basics to what they prefer based on their size shape and background (something I was guilty of with the bearpaw)

The physical side of what I teach has come from many hours of training, the way I hit was based with the swamp principles on Grover’s DVD

And because a lot of my training was done at home it quickly became my own particular way

I know quite a few people that learnt to hit at home hitting bags they all do it in their own particular way but still use the same basics regardless of the way they stand/step or hold their hands or arms

After a knee injury that stopped me doing any hardcore training caused by grappling training with my brother, hey just because sparing was out we had to find something!

the problem was we both knew very little about it, he was bending my leg one way and I’m bending his the other nobody wanted to give up, he did in the end but Monday at work I soon realised there was something definitely not right (let this be a lesson to you guys be careful when your training)

I carried on going to dens class and seminars studying what they were doing even though I was not physically training, Maybe I got a bit obsessed with getting my friends to hit harder in class, or it was because I would limp around taking notes, in his class in Jan 2007 I received this email from den
______________________________________________________________
Karl, I've thought about this long and hard, but I regret that you are no longer welcome to train with us.
The reason being, you constantly promote your own ideas to the guys who attend, both
the Wednesday class, and seminars.
I know you have ambitions to be an instructor,
 but you should set up your own group, and not take advantage of what we are doing with our endeavours.
I like you as a person, but just don't think our aims are best served by your activities.

 Best of luck with your future training.
Dennis Martin
______________________________________________________________

well I was a bit gutted and had made many good friends there, but I also realised that my training was different to what he was doing. So I continued with my teaching/learning with friends and family.

one big thing that I got from Si Squires, one of dens instructors was the importance of the padded assailant scenarios so I began testing helmets in various forms an started to put a suit together this was always a real tester to find out if your training was working, early on a had some good tests and some bad tests, luckily I had some on film so I could study it and improve on my performance so I continued with my teaching/learning with friends and family.

And in the middle of last year I started looking round for somewhere to hold a class, and soon realised that I needed insurance,
I got public liability but because I had no belts or certificates, I couldn’t get full martial arts insurance and I couldn’t rent any of the bigger halls, I checked around for places that help people my problems

This was when I contacted Dave Turnton of the self defence federation, I told him that I wanted to open a class on simple basic combatives but couldn’t get insurance
After I showed him what I taught and gave him full details of my history, in November 2007 he granted me a licence/insurance so I could officially start my own class.

Thanks again Dave, I think you know how much it means to me

What I teach today is based on one thing only and that’s my thoughts and studies on the best and simplest ways I can avoid/escape someone in a violent attack.

To date I’ve also been in around 100 padded assailant scenarios,

I’ve been attacked /been the attacker at full force full power many times, filmed and studied every one of them many times, and the truth is if you do it well on a guy in a padded helmet, It gives you real confidence in what you do and an understanding that you can make it work in real life, regardless of what experience the instructor has, it’s always up to the student when there on the street confronted with violence, this comes down to one thing, their commitment to training, how many hours they put in, and how realistic the training is

 From a love of martial arts as a kid to around the last four and a half years of training/teaching (about 12 months jkd the rest in combatives)

 I don’t consider myself an expert or hard in any way and I do my best to avoid trouble, I’ve been helping/teaching friends and family since I started training and found a real love for it and realised my passion in life.

Thanks for your patience

Last updated 19 July 08

MMA kinetic striking classes

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