Tag Archives: Richard Killick

Mastering Self-Defense: Insights from a Martial Arts Coach

Combat Sports Coaching My students and training partners know that since I started coaching martial arts, I have had two main interests. The first was combat sports. I coached boxing, Muay Thai, full-contact stick fighting, and also MMA as a sport. Self-Protection Instructor My second area of interest has been self-protection. I have moved onContinue reading “Mastering Self-Defense: Insights from a Martial Arts Coach”

KORA Cold Reaction Sparring Drill

As a teacher and a practitioner, I utilise a few drills to road test what comes out in an ambush. You can use this drill for any aspect of your arts; we always go straight into the drill cold. The video below is a mixture of the drill and a post-drill review. It’s very muchContinue reading “KORA Cold Reaction Sparring Drill”

Participate in Our KORA Discussion Group

If you like and follow our research and training, you may like to join our private discussion group. Here we can answer questions and discuss KORA and the arts we have researched and taught for forty-plus years. Wondering if our training group or private lessons are for you, feel free to join and lurk aContinue reading “Participate in Our KORA Discussion Group”

Transforming Martial Arts Teaching: My Mid-Year Journey

We are halfway through the coaching year, and things are going well. Firstly, in January, I changed the way I teach to give my students the intention training I have been working on for the last few years, plus, after reading The Art of Practice by Laido Dittmar, I changed the format and running orderContinue reading “Transforming Martial Arts Teaching: My Mid-Year Journey”

Exploring Full-Contact Training: New Theories and Hypotheses

A very interesting hypothesis and theory article is available for those of us who do full-contact training and fighting. This article uses some extracts from an article on me. It also includes a few quotes. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1327396/full

Enhancing Knife Training: Lessons from Nigel E.’s Podcast

My friend’s podcast just gets better and better. This one is with Nigel E. February of Piper fame. Nigel studied criminals and built a system that shows how they work, to produce a better training bad guy. The result he labeled Piper. Every time I hear Nigel, I cross-check our KORA knife system. In theContinue reading “Enhancing Knife Training: Lessons from Nigel E.’s Podcast”

Stick Grappling Tips: Protect Your Grip Effectively

The video is for illustrative purposes only. Please seek professional instruction and train safely. If you are not very careful, you may risk injuring your thumb. Many practitioners use the thumbs-up grip for their stick techniques. This grip is common in certain Filipino Martial Arts (FMA). It is also used in Irish stick styles. IfContinue reading “Stick Grappling Tips: Protect Your Grip Effectively”

KORA Training 2025

Here is an update on classes at my place in 2025, with some changes. Training We have an exciting year ahead, I am changing the way I teach, after doing some research and we will be going back to how I taught previously, with a lot more emphasis on skill development. The class format willContinue reading “KORA Training 2025”

Why Start Training with Sword Before Stick?

Stick or sword training first? When I began my journey, I first studied Olympic fencing, and then focused mainly on the sabre, while also cross-training in boxing and some combatives. I had some basic instruction in what we would now call Irish stick and some English cane techniques. Neither was a complete system; in fact,Continue reading “Why Start Training with Sword Before Stick?”