Preserving Unique Martial Arts Traditions

I appreciate all the arts and flavours. Since 1986, I have taught and studied Savate with a Basque flavour. It is unique and beautiful.  It is just one of the arts I try to preserve for future generations. I also seek to pass on our brand of the following arts, all taught as separate classesContinue reading “Preserving Unique Martial Arts Traditions”

Mastering Uki Goshi: Half-Hip Throw Techniques

Yesterday in class, I taught my guys the half-hip throw (Uki Goshi), the first thing I now teach, thanks to John Danaher and his brilliant stand-up-to-ground course on BJJ Fanatics. It’s natural to ask follow-up questions such as whether I stay on the ground, stand up, post throw etc. If you stay, we use whatContinue reading “Mastering Uki Goshi: Half-Hip Throw Techniques”

2019 The KORA Research Group Update

I receive quite a few private messages regarding my research group’s nature, and I want to take some time to clarify a few details.   When I retired from public teaching in 2005, after over twenty years of serving my community, I closed my school called the Primal Focus Gym, which covered my MMA orContinue reading “2019 The KORA Research Group Update”

Something’s cooking

This blog will cover the martial arts and related disciplines that we study under the banner of Killick Off Road Arts as taught by Richard Killick. We publicly teach and study MMA, Grappling, Sword & Dagger, Full Contact Stick Fighting and Savate with a Basque flavour. Privately we study Pukulan Sera.