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Styles / Sports

Areas of Focus

Balance

Considered one of the most important perceptual-motor abilities, balance allows you to have more body control while doing sports. With balancing, you will gain coordination, stability, and improve ease of movement. Find other Balance focused clubs in Haywards Heath.

Coordination

Coordination is one of the physical abilities of the human being and a basic quality for anyone who practices sports. It complements other abilities such as strength, endurance, flexibility, and speed, helping the body act together, move more efficiently, and improve our body position and balance in movement. Find other Coordination focused clubs in Haywards Heath.

General Fitness

General fitness is the development of physical qualities through exercise, with the aim of improving the general psycho-physical state, cardiovascular exercises, toning, balance, coordination, stretching, relaxation, etc. are performed. It is a complete training of the body based on exercises that combine muscular and aerobic work. Find other General Fitness focused clubs in Haywards Heath.

Grappling

Grappling is a hybrid sport that combines different styles, some modern and some more traditional, of wrestling and martial arts. This fighting method is based on grappling, strangulation, and dislocation techniques of the adversary’s extremities. Used in various martial arts (judo, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, etc.), it is also used very frequently in submission sports, where combat can be terminated without the need for blows. Find other Grappling focused clubs in Haywards Heath.

Joint Locking

Joint locking is a grappling technique that involves manipulating an opponent’s joints in such a way that the joints reach their full range Joint locks generally involve isolating a particular joint, using leverage in an attempt to force the joint to move beyond its normal range of motion. Joint blocks cause varying degrees of joint pain and, if applied forcefully and/or suddenly, can cause injury, including damage to muscles, tendons, and ligaments, and even bone dislocation or fracture. Find other Joint Locking focused clubs in Haywards Heath.

Philosophy

Encompassing critical thinking, ethics and a rage of other intellectual disciplines; a philosophical focus attempts to improve the mind of a practitioner, not just the body. Find other Philosophy focused clubs in Haywards Heath.

Striking

A general catch-all for punching, kicking and using elbows / knees to deliver a blow to an opponent. Find other Striking focused clubs in Haywards Heath.

Throwing

A specific type of grappling that aims to give the skills needed to toss an opponent, or otherwise “put them on the ground”. Find other Throwing focused clubs in Haywards Heath.

Weapons (Improvised)

Learning to effectively use every-day, innocuous objects, as weapons; and to identify things that might be to hand, that can be used when in a bind. Including (but not limited to) things like car keys, chop sticks, a fork, an ATM card, etc. Find other Weapons (Improvised) focused clubs in Haywards Heath.

Weapons (Traditional)

Learning to use purpose-build / crafted weapons traditionally associated with combat. Often includes swords, staves, machetes and purpose-crafted knives. Find other Weapons (Traditional) focused clubs in Haywards Heath.