Practical Martial Arts

Matthew is very pleased with the way that everyone is progressing their training and personalising their techniques. The variety of techniques that are being developed to meet the same attacks shows just how much thought everyone is putting into their training...

Matthew would like to say well done to all the students who graded as well as the students who took part but weren’t eligible to grade. Everyone put in a great deal of effort and Matthew was very pleased with how well everyone did...

As promised, Matthew has now produced the Behaviour Score Sheets. All parents should have them, those that don’t please speak to Matthew and he’ll be more than happy to give you a copy. If you like, you can also download them from here...

Thank you so much for all the support that people have given me during the preparation of this book. There has been so much interest both inside and outside Taekwondo with everyone saying that they’re looking forward to seeing a book that deals with both the ITF and WTF patterns...

Iain Abernethy will be giving yet another awesome seminar.

In the first book of the series, Matt reveals how taekwondo is far more than a beautiful striking art - TKD patterns are filled with pragmatic self-protection techniques including throws, takedowns, locks and chokes that are brutally simple and brutally effective...

Practical Martial Arts instructor, Matthew Sylvester, is offering to teach parents, and friends of Practical Martial Arts a one-hour seminar on self-protection and the car. The cost is £1, and the seminar will be for one hour...

If you want to learn how to protect yourself and your children from danger, then you should attend Practical Martial Arts’ Lady’s Self-protection course...

I received this today from Sydney Self Protectionon Facebook. It is an email that was sent to him by a friend of his. This lady was VERY lucky indeed. On sunday i was shopping in Manchester (uk) as i approached my car i saw a man standing there and noticed my front passenger window was smashed...

This is the first week of the new club payment and lesson structure and I’m pleased to say that it has gone very well. 100 per cent of our existing students have decided to commit to the PMA Elite, rather than taking the softer option of doing the one hour lessons...

Well, Back to the Roots has now been sent off to the editors so that it will be ready to go on the shelves. It is already available for pre-order at Amazon, Waterstones and WHSMith and should be available in book shops on May 5th.

Now, the above title might seem to be a bit obvious. However that’s only if you’re assuming (and never assume as it ‘makes an ass out of you and me’) that I’m talking about British lorries. I’m not. What I am talking about is foreign lorries...

It’s now official, England is in recession. As a result of this, we’re giving our adult members two different types of membership. Standard Membership is £5 per hour or £36 per month if you pay by Standing Order...

As of February 2009, Exeter Practical Martial Arts will be introducing an Adult’s PMA Elite Club. Classes will now be split. Rather than running for 1.5 hours, standard classes will run for 1 hour. Standard classes will be £5 per hour (cash in hand)...

Expect to be put through the wringer. Cost £20.

Students will be graded on the following; Front arm down block Rear arm down block Lead Palm Heel Rear Palm Heel Front Kick Walking Stance Defence Stance with Fence Stranger ...