Jamie Clubb's Podcast

The third annual Christmas edition of the official Clubb Chimera Martial Arts Podcast (Jamie Clubb's Podcast) continues our tradition of answering listener questions along with a Christmas ramble. In this episode I look at the semantic issue of self-protection and self-defence whilst also covering the reason why personal security might be trained without hard skills yet hard skills should not be trained without personal security. Next I am pinned down by the first five things I would teach about self-protection to a non-martial artist and a martial artist. Then we look at what changes I have implemented during the Covid-19 restrictions of 2020 and what I plan on keeping post-pandemic. My last question for this show takes us all on a journey through weight divisions in combat sports and what can that mean for self-defence training. Weight categories appear throughout all mainstream full-contact (and semi-contact) combat sports yet Lethwei, Judo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, some MMA and several competitions retai