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Kickboxing in Big Bear!
What a treat to be able to teach Muay Thai in the snow for 10 hours! It is interesting to see how much the art itself evolves with time going from tropical to mountain terrain. Tommy and I were truly impressed with how well everyone picked up the information. Much respect to all my colleagues…
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Winter Survival Education Retreat
Elite Training Center’s Winter Survival Education Retreat was an enormous success. It’s taken a few days for the magnitude of the knowledge and experience to sink in, and I’m finally ready to share my thoughts. To begin, getting a taste of what it’s like to fight in the snow with winter gear on was an…
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Combative Shadow Boxing
In tonights class we explored the full potential of shadow boxing combatively. Repetition always creates success. Shadowing a technique over and over will instill it in your body over time. This allows your mind to begin to think under stress and as you begin to experience this, you can begin to gradually increase in speed,…
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Burning Out?
All martial artists come to a plateau at some point during training. It is important to recognize why the burnout is occurring. At Elite Training Center in Redondo Beach, CA we encourage cross training. Cross training often leads to new perspectives. The instructors at Elite whether Krav Maga, Kali Silat, Muay Thai Kickboxing, MMA or…
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What’s up with the Clinch?
Really great to see everyone in the kickboxing class excited to train the thai clinch. Slowly but surely everything comes together and just when you thought there was a lot, there’s more where that came from!
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Building blocks
When we learn to read, we don’t immediately jump into books with long, complex sentences. First we learn our letters, the formation of each and the sounds they make. Once those are mastered, we are taught how to combine them into words and then how to put those words together to open worlds of stories…
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Questions?
If you find yourself struggling to understand information that you receive, just ask! Far too often students on the martial path fear the judgment of their fellow martial artists if they ask questions. “I don’t wanna hold up the class” or “I’ll just ask later” then forget. Firstly, ego must leave the equation. Never feel…
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Building Systems
Elite Training Center hosts 5 schools under 1 roof. This is done as each system is complimentary to the next. Krav Maga shares many movements derived from not only Muay Thai kickboxing, but from Kali Silat, another self defense system taught at Elite. The ground work takes pieces and elements of both Brazilian Jiu Jitsu…
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Consistently Consistent
Lots of people recognize that Elite Training Center’s staff is “always here.” This is true. In order for us to truly relay the necessary information to the students we must stay current. By staying current means, up keep on not only techniques from Krav Maga, Kali Silat, Muay Thai Kickboxing, MMA and BJJ, but our…
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Fire Fighters Need Help
Hello Everyone, The Redondo Beach Fire Dept Station #1 is in a contest. It was on the news and whoever gets the most votes, they get a new kitchen and they sure could use it. The funds they had been saving twice went to fix the roof and another time for upgraded medical supplies. Elite…
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Fun Work Pays Off
Work and training are usually synonomous. The idea of something that can make you better both physically and mentally is too often discarded as inherently fun. Shouldn’t the outcome of beneficial results be deemed fun? Most of the Elite Training Center’s student body “work” hard. Does that mean that when learning people aren’t having fun?…
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Another Successful Promotion!
What an incredible display of hard work and resilience. Our first Kickboxing promotion will definitely be something to remember. It was an honor to hold for those of you I was lucky enough to have at the end. Everyone gave 110% and did phenomenal. We are all so very proud of you all and I…
Elite Training Center’s Krav Maga Program Elite Training Center’s Krav Maga program had over 25 people test and promote on Saturday. Some promoted into Advanced Krav Maga programs and others
Krav Maga Training The shooting at Seattle Pacific University last Thursday has been all over the news. When Aaron Ybarra fired upon students and stopped to reload, Jon Meis took
Friday night Elite Training Center Instructor, James Moontasri knocked out his opponent in the second round with brutal uppercuts. James’s record is now 7-1. James’s knockout marks the second victory
Muay Thai Head Kick: The 11 Second Solution One of our instructors, Tommy Aaron won his MMA fight with a round kick to the head in 11 seconds. As much
Here’s a great share by Sean Fagan off of his Muay Thai Guy page which is great not just for Thai boxers but all martial artists. The Ultimate Muay Thai
Muay Thai technique Amazing Muay Thai technique: 21 minutes of Saenchai: Muay Thai technique this video goes through all the amazing fakes, trips, and tricky Muay Thai technique of one
Black belt in Muay Thai On May 2nd 2014 I tested for a Black Belt in Muay Thai at Elite Training Center. To prepare for this test I started running
Budgeting Time for… I recently read a blog post by a body builder talking about how they couldn’t quite understand how people can’t stick to workout routines and a proper
