Its been a while since my last blog scribe but I have the excuse of having a rather busy start to the year.

Without going into too much detail let me just say that RiPA have many projects coming up this year and we are getting chocka with investigations and case studies.

But Im not gonna speak about that here. You'll just have to keep checking back on the RiPA homepageor forums.

Instead im going to speak about myself a bit and one other activity that I do outside RiPA.

Some of you may or may not know that I used to be a team captain for a Greco Wrestling team in Luton a few years back. Due to lack of funding the club had to be cancelled so that stopped. I then took up being a Viking re-enactor with Clan Hwicce. A great bunch of guys they were but life, as usual got in the way and my various combat hobbies stopped.

All throughout this time I have been a fan of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) and have been following the likes of ECW, WEC, PRIDE and mainly UFC. Its the only sport I do follow. Beats football in every way!

So while doing some filming projects
I discovered the guys at Total Dojoin
Bletchley, Milton Keynes.

Total Dojois a friendly gym which offers multi-dicipline training. From MMA, BBJ and Thai Bo to the lesser known KFM (Keysi Fighting Method).
And this is where I come in.

Ok, to start with I was interested in the MMA side of things and by using my Greco as a base dicipline I thought id like to reinvent myself in that way.
But the more time I spent at Total Dojo, the more fascinating I found KFM.

It is this dicipline in which my future training will be.

KFM is NOT a martial art. It was not born or reinvented in the 'dojo'; KFM was born on the streets of Spanish gypsy origin. It has grown, developed and matured on the streets and the KFM Instructor Development Program is now a direct consequence of real events, experiences and subsequent years of investigation. KFM is an amazing multi dimensional journey into the world of self-discovery.

KFM was born in the 1950's and
therefore old and primitive traditions do not bind it,
nor do they limit the never-ending process of evolution. If we are to truly grow and develop as human beings then we must first break free from all past conditioning.
Learning is non accumulative, therefore we cannot store learning as we can knowledge, learning occurs on a daily basis and once we have 'learnt' something it becomes Knowledge which is now of the past.

KFM is an art form dedicated towards the study and investigation of survival of the modern day streets. It is in a state of constant evolution, never standing still and fuelled by research and investigation. You must allow yourself to evolve and grow on a daily basis if you are to truly absorb the essence of KFM and KFM lives in the blood and not in the collection of techniques.

Basically its a form of street fighting but with a psychological hook.
This is enough to hook me in.

In fact ive got training tonight (Thursday 11 Feb) so till next time.......