Saturday 13th March – Clinchwork and Elbows Workshop at Bad Company Gym.

On Saturday 13th March Bad Company chief instructor Richard Smith will run a 3 hour workshop at Bad Company Gym in Leeds.

The workshop will concentrate on the following:
Clinchwork
• Footwork, balance and positioning in neck wrestling.
• How to control and unbalance an opponent to deliver more effective and scoring knees and elbows.
• Throws and take-downs.
• Defence and attack in the clinch.

Elbows
• The use of the elbow and its subtleties – how to use the elbows more effectively from close range and the clinch and add a whole new angle to your weapons.

All techniques suitable for Muay Thai, Self Defence and MMA training – useful for instructors and Fighters plus those wanting to learn the basics.

Richard Smith has been involved in Muay Thai for 23 years and has trained some of the top fighters in the UK and the World and run one of the most successful gyms in the UK for over 15 years. He has spent many months training and learning in Thailand plus has brought over some top Thai trainers to the gym and learned from them all to take his fighter to the very top level.

Learn what has made fighters like Liam Harrison, Jordan Watson, Andy Howson, Richard Cadden, Lisa Houghton-Smith, James France, Steve Rutherford, Steve Deane and many more some of the most successful in the UK and Bad Company one of the most successful gyms.

Saturday 13th March 10.30am-1.30pm

Cost £45 – Lunch provided.

i waana do it...do i have to pay lol

Youre helping!

deluca told me he wants to be the person demonstrated on.

fantastic idea, why aint you done this before Richard lol!!! we are there x

great idea, this is what sets some of the top gyms apart from the rest. Clinch work & elbow is a must for the aspiring or A class fighter ;-)

£45 and lunch for 3 hours bargain.

Liam you need to do the course your elbows and clinch need work mate. :-0

Sounds excellent and will be popular well done for putting this on.

Great stuff Richard!
Not enough clinchwork courses going around so please put me down for this one I will try and get my students interested too...Phil

There has been a lot of interest in this so we are taking deposits to confirm booked places. This can be done online at www.badcompanyshop.co.uk or by sending a cheque.

awww why does this have to be the day before i fight....ill be in glasgow that weekend dammnn, id like to attend this but im sure ill get to work my elbows anyway ;)

Hi Richard, count me in for this, please send me details of where to send cheque etc

Hi Yogi. Send cheques payable to Bad Company to PO Box 183, Leeds, LS18 4WD. Cheers.

Booked my place through your website Richard and a few of my students should be coming too so more bookings soon,looking forward to plenty of elbows!!!

Can you believe that the ref allowed them to treat the cut before re-starting the fight!

watch it again closely..they actually put stiches in it and let him carry on....chanoy told me some right scandal about those shows but it aint the place to say on here.

Booked- see you there!

SHAUN

Onlyt a couplle of places left on this now....

Mr Smith,

The only reason my two regulars are not down there is one is fighting that weekend and one is also an official on the very same day.

Good luck....as though you need it you're awesome!

CJP

Thanks - not enough people call me awesome. You may do so more often.

Please save me a place! Cheque in the post. Any chance of getting a half hour with Kin while I'm there?

Hi Mazkicks - where did you send teh cheque to? Was it to the gym address?

Please email me at mrsmith@badcompany.co.uk.

Fantastic workshop today. 3 hours flew by, always a good sign. would be great if you could make it a regular thing Richard, you have so much knowledge to share and a very good approach to training large groups of people in concentrated time, we really enjoyed ourselves, thanks x

Loved it today, learnt loads and had a good laugh as well! Was such an easy going session
Thanks Richard, and good to catch up with Phil, Shaun and Steve
Dave

Thanks to everyone for coming today - some travelled a long way. It was great to catch up with some old (not literally) faces and meet some new ones.

There will be another one soon - watch this space.

im sure there was a picture of me throwing ya on the floor Rich haha x

The clinchwork workshop put on by Richard Smith was by far one of THE BEST seminars I have been on for learning techniques in this much needed area of Muay Thai,there were quite a few other well known instructors there too which was nice to see such as Shaun Broland ,Lee Whittington,Steve Logan,etc I had a great training partner in a young lad called Callum plus it was nice to meet up with you DaveA and talking about some of the people you have trained with over the years!
There was a great atmosphere in the gym and everyone was really freindly the techniques taught by Richard consisted of simple moves which were fairly easy to put into practice and did'nt take much strength to make them work only correct body movement and footwork.
If there are any more to come then I recommend booking early as these really are terrific courses and well worth the money,Mr Richard Smith all I can say is that today you were AWSOME!!!

Sawatdee Khrup!

This was a great course that didn't have information overload.

Essential basic footwork and positioning was taught first, which (as my students know) is a favourite of mine
Followed by proper grips & holds, how to enter & exit the clinch, take downs & off setting balance, knees and elbows.

More and more of these courses should be offered by top instructors such as Kru Richard Smith.

Richard put the information across and demonstrated the techniques in a simple but effective way and everyone gained knowledge and experience.

As Phil said the atmosphere was great and it was equally great to meet up with old friends and new.

May we all continue to keep open minds and learn

SHAUN

Simply brilliant!!

I really enjoyed this course and found it very useful. As everyone has said the atmosphere was great, the time flew by and there was just the right amount of information given so I feel like I've remembered alot of what we did. Great to get down to the basics of stance, positioning, timing etc. It was nice to meet some new people and to find a training partner my size! Thanks Vicky. Many thanks Richard for a great course and to you and Lisa for trying to sort out the window for me. I will definatley be up for any future courses.

Hi Marion, i was just wondering if you got back okay-it must have been a cold drive home lol x

Thanks Marianne, cold and hungry - they nicked my lunch! x

Hers's a short clip from teh seminar:

oh i loved seeing Iains neck get thrown on to the ropes haha x