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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…
The three most important facts that must be proven under California self-defense law are: 1.that the danger or threat was imminent, 2.that you reasonably believed you would be harmed, and
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week’s classes in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program saw us practicing techniques in combatives and self-defense focusing using the guard to influence and control the
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week’s classes in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program saw us practicing techniques in combatives and self-defense focusing mostly on ground work. The two main concepts
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week’s classes in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program saw us practicing techniques in stand up combatives and self-defense in how to pull guard from the
This past weekend a new crop of Elite Training Center (Redondo Beach, CA) basic Krav Maga students took their training to another level after promoting into the Advanced Krav Maga
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, This week in the basic adult classes we explored escaping from the bottom cross side position a.k.a. the hundred kilos position, and we also training
Hello Elite Training Center Friends, Each week I will be writing a little bit of my observations of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructional content. This weekly blog will help all of
