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      <title><![CDATA[Changes Ahead !]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Its been a while guys so firstly apologies for that... BAKM is now a sole entity now having decided that being affiliated to no other organisation was the best way to go..

This therefore means that we will see changes in the self defence curriculum but present grades etc will still be recognised..

It also means that we will have a more open attitude to training with lots of guest instructors, seminars etc lined up for the future.

Xmas dinner is planned for December 5th and we are looking towards a club ski trip late Feb early March..

I will keep you posted with anymore events..

All the best

John ]]></description>
      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/19/Changes-Ahead</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Holidays coming soon !]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Halfway through the summer now and I'm so looking forward to my break in August when myself, Suzy ( fiance ) and a few friends will be heading out to Morocco to surf, kite-surf, hike, make sandcastles, haggle,  and generally have a great time and of course practice some Krav Maga ( gotta keep up to date ! ).

KM wise the club is progressing very well with a bunch of guys from the club having passed Phase B of instructor training who are now looking forward to practising their teaching within the club.

Class numbers are high for this time of year but then with some many instructors in 1 school this is not a problem at all as we are able to divide the group amongst instructors leading to great student to instructor ratios.

The recent para-gliding trip was also a huge success, followed by the navigation course and this weekend we have the kite-surfing so lots going on in and around the club itself too.

Injuries wise I'm a little busted with a broken big toe and a broken hand both from sparring.

Moving forward I intend to up my own fitness training as soon as my hand has healed and am feeling suitably refreshed after the holiday break..

So, not much news this time round but will be back again with more snippets soon.

For now 

John 

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      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/18/Holidays-coming-soon</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[The BAKM Adventure Club is up &amp; running...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the BAKM Adventure Club… 

As promised here are the details of the adventure club that we have been working on for the last few months..

Here are more specific details...

As we sometimes need a rest from Self Defence &amp; Krav Maga training, the BAKM Adventure Club is a “club within a club” that is open to all BAKM members plus their friends, family and partners who may want to pull themselves away from the sofa on the weekends and do something a bit more adventurous.  

This club works on the simple premise that its membership is used to approach training providers to negotiate a reduced fee that is then passed onto you. 

At a cost of just £5 per month (on top of the normal membership) every two weeks throughout the year you will be offered an activity, social event or similar at a price that is always lower than the training providers normal price.

How to Join.

To join this club all you need do is add on £5 per month (about £1.25 per week<img src="http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif" alt="!)" /> to the standard Krav Maga standing order / direct debit membership that you sign up to. If you are already a BAKM club member we will ask you to fill another SO form for £5 per month to join this club. 

How to pay for an event.

As we only have a certain amount of places on each activity we ask that members pay online and a course will show the number of places available as and when places are taken. If you are not an Adventure Club Member you may pay the discounted price online but you will have to pay the difference between this and the full price on the day of the event. Please note that we only have a certain amount of places on each activity and therefore places are allocated on a first come, first served basis or more to the point, first to pay basis! 

To sign up to a course simply click on the Pay Now Price button next to the course details which you will find on the website 

Here are a few samples of courses we have lined up for you..

Basic Kite-Surfing Course.

Intro ..]]></description>
      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/17/The-BAKM-Adventure-Club-is-up--running</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Looking towards the summer &amp; adventure !]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As we now move towards the summer as a club we realise that a lot of you will be distracted by the weather and in line with this we are now busy setting up weekend activities and suchlike, kicking off with a kitesurfing course on June 7th &amp; 8th in  Shoreham, Sussex.


Training wise we have the yellow and orange belt grading on Monday June 9th before then looking towards getting everyone moving towards the green belt.

I have also secured a dedicated private training centre 2 mins walk from Ladbroke Grove tube station and I look forward to training clients there in the near future.

Outside of this I have also managed to break my big toe whilst ground fighting so if u see me hobbling in class you'll know why..

All the best for now   


John :-)]]></description>
      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/16/Looking-towards-the-summer--adventure</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Krav Maga Training In Switzerland]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Just a quick one !

I'm off to Switzerland for 1 week of Krav Maga instructor training. I'll be back Thursday 1st May and look forward to giving you guys ( my students ) some new techniques and new ideas in regards to self defence and personal safety training. I'll probably be really sore too but hey it's all part and parcel of KM training ;-) ]]></description>
      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/15/Krav-Maga-Training-In-Switzerland</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[The British Academy of Krav Maga in Time Out Magazine]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This article appeared in 'Time Out' Magazine recently.. I have copied from the original which was written by Lucy Lord who visited our class recently....  

Israeli military martial art krav maga is a no-holds-barred, combative workout – ideal for the mean streets of London.... 

You’d think the phrase ‘tough Israeli military self-defence technique’ would be unequivocal enough to prepare you for a krav maga class. In my case, you’d be wrong. The class starts gently enough, with jogging around the room – though dropping to the floor to do random press-ups is strangely like being in an Oliver Stone movie.

Next, we have to pair up and, well, grapple with each other. The first bit is fun, jumping up and down on the spot, trying to touch the other person’s back, while defending oneself against being touched. However this develops into getting one another into a headlock, aiming to twist the other person round so you’ve got them from behind (the most common position from which to attack). It’s not pleasant. We swap partners a few times – it must be difficult for the poor chaps who have to pretend that taking me on is any challenge. There are only two other women in a class of around 20. 


Next, we are put into teams of three to perform an exhausting ‘workstation’ series of press-ups, sit-ups and an extraordinary kind of one-handed press-up dance. I cry off, pleading back problems, at which point instructor John Aldcroft tells me that he always starts the class with a 45-minute warm-up. Physical fitness, he insists, is as much a key to being able to defend oneself as knowing the techniques. This is the warm-up? Good God.

Fighting for fitness  

Aldcroft has been teaching krav maga for seven years and set up the Krav Maga Centre eight months ago. ‘I’d learnt Thai boxing at university, and while it’s great for fitness and as a competitive martial art, I didn’t feel it was relevant to self-defence,’ he says. He found that krav ..]]></description>
      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/14/The-British-Academy-of-Krav-Maga-in-Time-Out-Magazine</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Orange Belt Test]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Orange belt test is today and I would just like to say good luck to all those students who are looking to acheive this. If you have done the training you have absolutely nothing to worry about and I look forward to seeing you now looking forward to your Green belt training.

As I have said before Krav Maga is growing at a rapid rate now ( albeit being progressed by rival clubs as well ! ) But Krav Maga Worldwide has now arrived in the UK and we look forward to spreading the KMW curriculum throughout the UK v soon :-)

Once we have reached a certain level I look forward to the first UK KMW instructor phases of training being held at our club.

As they say: 

Onward and upward !

Don't forget to check out www.krav-maga.org.uk for more details !

All the best / John ]]></description>
      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/13/Orange-Belt-Test</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Orange Belt Krav Maga Curriculum]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For those of you who are missing the orange belt Krav Maga curriculum for whatever reason, prior to the test on Monday see below. Make sure you also keep an eye on the club website www.krav-maga.org.uk for more details of revision seminars etc..

Orange Belt Curriculum.

1. Bobbing, weaving &amp; slipping. 2. Hook punch / uppercut punch. 3. Left / Right / Left Hook. 4. Left / Right / Left Hook / Right Uppercut. 5. Left / Right / Bob / Right. 5. Left Punch / Right elbow. 6. Left / Right / Left Hook / Right Elbow. 7. Right Uppercut / Left Hook / Right Cross.

8. Defensive Front Kick (using whole foot). 9. Kicking in advance, 9. Side kick. 10. Side kick with advance (stepping behind). 11. Back kick, 12. Uppercut kick. 13. Side kick or back kick into hammer fist combination. 

14. Inside punch defence with counter against straight left (jab). 15. Inside punch defence with counter against left punch (jab) using left hand. 16. Inside defence with counter against right punch (2 counters: one to chest /stomach then recoil and strike face). 17. Inside defence with counter against right punch (1 counter). 18. Extended 360 defence against hook punch. 18. Covering defence against hook punch. 19. Defence against uppercut punch. 20. 360 defence with counter attack against any type of punch.  

21. Reflexive defence against front kick. 22. Outside stabbing defence against front kick. 23. Plucking defence against front kick. 24. Inside defence against high front kick. 25. Defence against low round kick using the shin / thigh. 26. Stop kick defence against front kick. 27. Redirecting front kick with shin. 

28. Choke from front / behind against wall. 29. Choke from behind with a pull
30. Headlock from behind release (cross neck/arm bar). 31. Headlock from behind arterial (elbow forward). 

32. Bear hug from front arms free (using space and grabbing hips to escape). 34. Bear hug from front arms free but tighter ( grabbing head rotating and attacking). 35. Bear hug from fro ..]]></description>
      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/12/Orange-Belt-Krav-Maga-Curriculum</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[British Academy of Krav Maga News - April 2008]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Getting Ready for Orange &amp; Phase A Instructor Training Opportunity in Barcelona 11 - 13th April

We now have the orange grading assessments to think of with Thurs 3rd April  being Pre-Grading Training, the 4th April being Mock Grading and then finally the 7th being the actual grading test starting at 6.30pm ....

To register for the test you will need to be there for 6.15pm and have done at least 4 - 6 months training after your yellow belt ( depending on how many times a week you trained ).

Costings For The Grading Assessment.

The cost for the grading assessment is £30 per person for which you will receive a certificate and belt ( should you pass ).

Within the above I would also ask that you try to arrive at least 15 mins prior to the grading so that we may have an necessary admin covered prior to your assessment.

On another note I have just received notice that their will be a Phase A instructor training course on 11 - 13th April in Barcelona for those of you who may have missed out on the previous course. It promises to be a great course and an invaluable piee of training should you want to eventually get your black belt or instructor qualification.

2 Hour Free Rape Prevention Seminar.

Furthermore we also have a 2 hour 'Rape Prevention' seminar on Monday April 14th @ 6.30pm at: The University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, Oxford Circus, London, in conjunction with other KMW clubs throughout the world which will be free to the general public &amp; seeing as many of you there as possible would be much appreciated.

This seminar will be 2 hours long and will replace the normal class training format and will cover the following areas:

Avoidance &amp; Awareness
Target Hardening Techniques / Understanding Body Language
Dialoque Entrapments / Dialoque Defences
Known Attack Rituals of Rapists / Countering The Attack
Physical Response v's Acquiesce Response

Trainee Instructors will be acting in assistance to this course and it promises to be of ..]]></description>
      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/11/British-Academy-of-Krav-Maga-News--April-2008</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Back from Hols !]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Guys n Gals..


I've just got back from Famara, Lanzarote where the waves were huge and scary ( even for a KM enthusiast ) .. Back into the KM groove straight away though and I look forward to seeing you guys in class v soon :-)]]></description>
      <link>http://krav-maga.org.uk/blog/post/index/10/Back-from-Hols</link>
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