MCR Martial Arts

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2024 new year special offer

To welcome you to our class you can try all our classes for free: You can come to four different classes or one class four times.

Timetable

Thursdays 7pm - 9pm (2 x 1 hour class)

week 1 - 7-8pm Kickboxing, 8-9pm Hapkido

week 2 - 7-8pm Kung-Fu, 8-9pm Krav Maga

January

4th January (week 2)

11th January (week 1)

18th January (week 2)

25th January (week 1)

February

1st February (week 2)

8th February (week 1)

15th February (week 2)

22nd February (week 1)

29th February (week 2)

March

7th March (week 2)

14th March (week 1)

21st March (week 2)

28th March (week 1)

 

Pricing

Option Price
Solo class £10
All classes per month (Aged14-18) - £30
(Aged 18+) - £52

About

Master Martyn Rice (BA, PGCHE, MRES) has been practicing martial arts for over 35 years. He has numerous black belts and instructors qualifications for Kickboxing, Kung-Fu, Hapkido and Krav Maga, with additional instructor grades in Eskrima and Keysi. Other belts and grades in styles including Judo, Karate, Wing Tsun and mixed combative weapons. Martyn has competed mostly in full contact competitions both open and mixed styles as well as successfully completing his full contact 100-man kumite.

Martyn has extended his studies of the martial arts to university. Martyn has a BA in Martial Arts Theory and Practice from the University of Derby.  A post graduate certificate in Principles and Practices of Higher Education Teaching. As well as a Masters Degree in Sports and Exercise from the University of Derby. He has written numerous peer reviewed articles on martial arts and has has his work featured in books by specialized authors.

 

Senior Instructor Mark Field has been practicing the Martial Arts for the past 15 years. He has extensive training in different forms of kickboxing. Mark has been a part of MCR Martial Arts for almost 10 years. His black belts and instructor grades are in Kickboxing and Krav maga, with additional belts are in Kung-Fu and Hapkido.  

Mark likes the idea that in the practice of Martial Arts there is always something new to learn and that as an instructor he can also learn through teaching. Mark uses his experience to adapt his learning to other styles and martial philosophies.

 

The Martial Arts 

HAPKIDO (Chon-Tu Kwan) is a “technical” format of self-defence. This style is also known as Combat Hapkido, it employs joint locks, throws, hand strikes, and low kicks.

  • The curriculum has been specifically designed and modified for use by the law-enforcement community. This style of Hapkido is not “aggressive”, it is reactive in its design.
  • It combines a wide range of techniques found in Aikido, Judo, Ju Jitsu and Wing Chung.
  • It is scientific in its approach as it is a system based upon scientific principles and concepts of anatomy, strategy, biomechanics, and causality.
  • MCR HAPKIDO is a system for everyone; it is Ideal for Men and Women it is “Low Impact”- Physical Fitness not essential.

 

KRAV MAGA is a military combat system developed for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and it has been adopted by and supported by law enforcement and military organisations worldwide such as the British SAS, US Marine Corps and the French Police RAID unit.

  • Krav Maga is a proven battle tested combat method. It is known for its effectiveness in real-world situations by using pre-set offensive and defensive strategies and attacks.
  • It combines a wide range of techniques found in Aikido, Boxing, Muay Thai, Jujitsu, Judo and Wing Chung.
  • MCR Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasizing simultaneous defensive and offensive manoeuvres. This style of Krav Maga is the same as Krav Maga worldwide syllabus.
  • Krav Maga military origin and development is very present in the combat techniques.

 

MCR KICKBOXING is a Martial Art that is designed for Self-defence or combat. This style is not for sport.

  • It uses all the body’s weapons such as punches, kicks, knees, elbows, low kicks (thigh& shin), trips, sweeps and throws. Techniques used not for competition.
  • It combines a wide range of techniques from Muay Thai, Sandar (Chinese Military Kickboxing) Karate, Savate and American kickboxing.
  • MCR KICKBOXING is a mixed style of combat with the syllabus designed to develop physical kickboxing skill with combat applications through practice.
  • MCR Kickboxing has a stand-alone self-defence program that includes defences from strangles, grabs, knife, eskrima and handgun.

 

CHUAN SHU KWOON (Fist Arts School) Kung-Fu is a Southern Style of Chinese Kung-Fu, with origins from the 1850’s. It is not a Wushu style, it is for combat and self-defence.

  • It has strong influences from both Japan and Thailand within it, which makes it a very practical style that is grounded and realistic in both modern training and applications of self-defence and combat.
  • Chuan Shu Kwoon has a strong syllabus of combination techniques that covers pre-emptive attacks and defensive counter techniques and methods that are easy to learn, practice and perform.
  • It uses all the bodies natural weapons, punches, elbows, kicks, knees, Chinese spinning kicks and Thai boxing leg kicks.
  • The weapons used include, Staff, Tonfa, Bokken, Katana (live sword), Sai, Nunchaku, Knife and Eskrima.

 

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