This month,
I would first like to thank and congratulate David
Vickers.
Dave is quite well known and has 40 years martial arts experience.
He comes from a Thai boxing background and later moved into self protection.
He expressed an interest in Russian All-Round Fighting
which resulted in many conversations and a two day assessment was arranged.
Dave is a straight talking but nice guy with a good
sense of humour. He arrived on the Friday night and with two hard days ahead he
went to bed early.
Saturday
10
am
Fisticuffs: we were on the beach early that day for
lessons in Russian boxing. The moves were shown, the rain fell and after some
sparring we went home for lunch.
1pm
Kick fighting wrestling: along with training with a Russian
national champion Dave was able to train with English president, Leigh Till, neither
of whom like the easy ride.
In total, training lasted about 6/7 hours I seem to
remember.
Sunday
On Sunday we looked at weapons training:
We trained with the bayonet, a stick and a knife. This
was not Dave’s preferred style from the 8 RAF disciplines, but in all fairness
he picked them up fast, scoring some great points.
At the end of the day we played some games using
different terrain, learning to fall on uneven ground/ fight on uneven ground
and many other RAF techniques.
After two days of very intensive training Dave Vickers
is authorised by me along with the International Association of Russian
All-Round Fighting.
Well done Dave Vickers
Chest I Slava
You can contact Darrin at: sambowrestler@yahoo.co.uk
