The old way of doing things in combat sports especially the striking arts of boxing and Muay Thai has been to skip, hit bags, hit pads, hit people, and do a few hundred push ups and sit-ups. They’ve done it for centuries so it must be best practice? Not necessarily. Too much open ended training […]
It’s been another freezing cold day and you just got home from a hard day at work. Your mind starts to wonder what you are going to have for dinner and how good its going to be to lie down in your cozy bed. Oh wait… you still have to go training. The inner dialogue […]
It took a while to get up and running but here is the short film on head Muay Thai coach at Australian Combat Sports Academy Phillip Lai. This documentary gives a snippet into my life as a Muay Thai coach and co owner of ACSA.
You’ve seen it on the Internet and you have a few friends who have also started training, you might even know a friend of a friend who is a Muay Thai champion. You’ve always wanted to try it out so you decide to make some calls and look for a Muay Thai school. You find […]
In my previous article I discussed how I run my Intermediate BJJ Classes which can be seen here. This time I’m going to cover how we run our beginner BJJ Program. For Beginners Classes I follow an eight week program covering a different topic each week. I try to give the beginner students a good […]
I began teaching jiu jitsu full time eight years ago and I’ve been experimenting with various methods of running classes ever since. Tweaking the formats to see what works best. I have trained at a lot of different BJJ academies across the world and I have tried to implement the best ideas I’ve come across […]
A short clip working on some Boxing and Muay Thai Combinations with one of my Students at ACSA.
We have two exciting seminars coming up at our gym over the next couple of weeks. Hiroyuki Abe We will be hosting Japanese MMA and Grappling Legend Hiroyuki Abe on Saturday 17th February at 11am. Hiroyuki Abe is a one of the top MMA and Grappling Coaches in Japan and has fought extensively in the […]
In the BJJ Beginners and Intermediate Classes at Team Nemesis MMA we focused on Takedowns to Mount. We then worked on submissions from modified mount such as the ArmLock and some Oma Plata variations with the Advanced students.
Don’t worry… we are only closed on the main public holidays over the festive season. New timetable starts on Tuesday 2nd January 2017.