This is the official podcast of Clubb Chimera Martial Arts. Episodes provide insight and reflections on training methodology and the subculture of martial arts. Jamie Clubb, the podcast presenter, is a writer and martial arts/self-protection teacher. He promotes critical thinking and progressive training methods.
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Send us a Text Message. Mo Teague returns to the podcast! There are few martial arts and self-protection teachers who have influenced my work as much as Mo. He is a teacher with a tremendous CV in both real-world application (military, professional and civilian) and martial arts training. His life has long been one of discovery, exploration and rea…
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Combudo - A Discussion with Lee Hasdell
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Send us a Text Message. Lee Hasdell is often known as "The Godfather of UK MMA" and for good reason. He discovered the burgeoning new limited rules fighting scene in Japan before the first UFC shook the martial arts world to its foundations. Already a successful nak muay and kickboxer who had fought internationally under some of the biggest pioneer…
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Send us a Text Message. This bonus episode presents a couple of pieces of exciting news as well as recommendations. It's a call back to a time when I would blog at length about relevant miscellany. Let me know if you would like to hear more of these little round-up interludes. Animal Instincts Children's Self-Protection Teaching Programme Johns Hop…
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"Is Bruce Lee still relevant?" - A Discussion with Andy Gibney
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Send us a Text Message. Unified Fighting Systems founder, AG Martial Arts Centre owner, therapist and author, Andy Gibney returns to the show asking the question: "Is Bruce Lee still relevant?" Bruce Lee is an undeniable icon - at least for the Baby Boomer and Generation X age groups. However, what is his position and influence today? How important…
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Send us a Text Message. The new updated version of episode 7 from season 5, where the podcast defined its purpose. New information and corrections are all part of this new edition. Check out the video versions on YouTube that includes new textual information. Music for the Outro: "Titans" by Cold Cinema Link: https://bit.ly/3HjGhpV Support the Show…
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Send us a Text Message. Originally published as a vlog in 2021, this episode lays down my philosophical outlook on combative disciplines. I essentially see them to be three tribes that overlap far more than some would like to admit. On this show we look at the valid and invalid criticisms thrown against them from rival camps and outside. Finally, w…
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Send us a Text Message. Chapter V - Vulture Nests This chapter explores the type of vulture uses their homes to prey upon the desperate. Focusing largely on baby farming and especially on the entire career of Amelia Dyer, we seek to explore what allows such criminality to prosper. Please support the show for the price of a coffee Whitechapel - Vict…
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Send us a Text Message. On this special bonus episode I celebrate the general launch of the Animal Instincts Children's Self-Protection Teaching Programme. Mary Stevens and I have been creating this programme over the past five years, pouring in all our experience and knowledge to make the most comprehensive and workable teaching plan for children.…
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"It's time to get indignant" - A Discussion with Tiffany Richards
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Send us a Text Message. Tiffany Richards is one of the most well-travelled and entrepreneurial martial arts teachers alive today. She exemplifies her philosophy of taking a holistic and balanced approach to life, as can be seen through The Peaceful Warrior Marital Arts and Healing Centre she co-founded with her late business partner and life partne…
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Rebuilding - A Discussion with Rosi Sexton
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Send us a Text Message. Dr Rosi Sexton is a Mixed Martial Arts polymath. A grade 8 level pianist and grade 7 level cellist who performed at the Royal Albert Hall when she was just 17, she achieved a first at Trinity College Cambridge, a MsC and PhD at Manchester in Mathematics and Computer Science, but left it all behind to pursue a career in Octag…
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Send us a Text Message. Chapter IV - Escaping the Vultures We pick up on our series dedicated to self-protection as it relates to opportunistic predators. After a brief look at the unfair reputation real vultures receive, we return to the serial killers mentioned in the first chapter. The episode touches upon some real-life examples of Gavin De Bec…
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Animal Instincts - Observe, Adapt, Protect, Lead - A Discussion with Mary Stevens
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Send us a Text Message. Mary Stevens, founder of Athena School of Karate, joins me for a short discussion on our new collaboration project "Animal Instincts". On this episode we discuss the origin of this unique children's self-protection teaching programme, how to teach effective behaviours, its badge system and the problems children face. Animal …
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Identity - A Discussion with Mo Teague
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Send us a Text Message. Mo Teague is a teacher with a tremendous CV in both real-world application (military, professional and civilian) and martial arts training. His life has long been one of discovery, exploration and reality checks. It has also involved a lot of conflict. Much has been said and discussed about his external conflicts. However, o…
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Send us a Text Message. Chapter III - Crime Opportunity Theory As we pick back up on our "The Way of the Vulture" series focusing on opportunistic crimes and criminals, and the self-protection lessons we can take from them, we look at Opportunity Theory. This was an approach to criminology that the its adherents believed had more direct benefits th…
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Talking Pooh - A Discussion with Andy Gibney
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Send us a Text Message. Unified Fighting Systems founder, AG Martial Arts Centre owner, therapist and author, Andy Gibney joins the show for a look back at a childhood favourite. Taking the "Everything is Martial Arts" concept in an interesting direction, we look at the gentle world of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh and discuss its influence and conn…
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2024: Year of the Chimera (New Year Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. Chimera in name and nature, as CCMA look towards his 20th anniversary as a brand and teaching concept we cover a range of very different topics. This includes discussing my experiences at the first Martial Arts Festival last year, the Tyson Fury/Francis Ngannou bout, answer a question on whether or not Krav Maga is the most …
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Enter the Dragon, Exit 2023 (Christmas Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. The second part of our Christmas episode looks back on some highlights of 2023 and answers some more questions for the CCMA Facebook group. Topics include: Martial art movie inspiration, 40th anniversary of Enter the Dragon, conspiracy theory as a negative religion, how to defeat defaulting into consensual violence under pre…
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Fearmas & the Belt of Contention (Christmas Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. This season's Christmas episode opens with a ramble on a self-protection/martial arts perspective on the real meaning of the festive season before providing a deep answer to Ron Goin's question: Is the use of rank in martial arts truly a motivation for learning ? Here are some useful shownotes for this episode: Martial Arts …
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The Ballad of Igor Part I (Halloween Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. This year's Halloween episode is chapter one of a look at what might called the "Igor" psyche. Much the stock character of Igor and the monster he assisted to create (in some non-original versions of the story), this psyche is made of composite parts. We will explore this different parts by first covering the real criminal, …
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Release the Wrist - A Discussion with Dr Tammy Yard-McCracken
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Send us a Text Message. On this episode we are proud to present the voice of Dr Tammy Yard-McCracken. Self-protection is in a constant state of evolution and Tammy provides us with a truly positive state of change. Using her unique background, training and experience she highlights the hugely neglected area of the insidious assault and domestic vio…
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Send us a Text Message. This special bonus episode was released on the 50th anniversary of Bruce Lee's death. Its main piece is a review of Davis Miller's "The Tao of Bruce Lee", one of the most honest and reflective works written about Bruce Lee and his influence, but also includes updated comments on other books I have read since such as Tom Blee…
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Send us a Text Message. Support the show We begin our study of opportunistic crimes and their unique brand of predator. Chapter 1 - Detective Haarmann - Where we are introduced to a grisly opportunist who first terrified and then revolted the inhabitants of inter-war Hanover, Germany. Fritz "The Wolf-Man" Haarmann, a lazy, unintelligent, habitual c…
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A Long Time Ago... Martial Movie Massacre
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Send us a Text Message. Support the show Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of "Return of the Jedi" this special episode dives deep into Star Wars connections to martial arts and self-protection. This episode's chapters: 1. Not My Martial Arts Movie... Yet Why, despite Star Wars arguably being a martial arts movie, it probably did not inspire me …
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Star Wars: The Greatest Martial Movie in the Galaxy? (bonus episode)
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Send us a Text Message. Ahead of the mammoth self-protection/martial arts deep dive into Star Wars, I decided to record an audio version of an old article I wrote on the subject in the pages of "Martial Arts Illustrated". It's a little twee and less jaded than my current work - a bit like Luke Skywalker in the first film - but thought listeners mig…
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Send us a Text Message. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, V was a science fiction analogy of life under occupation and an exploration on how people act in such a crisis. On this episode we take a deep dive into universal themes of self-protection, case history and the alien martial art of Revok! This is an episode like no other. Fascist Lizards fro…
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"Nothing More Traditional Than Winning" - A Discussion with Tommy Joe Moore
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Send us a Text Message. On this show I talk with Tommy Joe Moore on a number of subjects. We look at the differences between pre-gloves pugilism and modern day bareknuckle boxing, the way boxing gyms are run compared to typical martial arts classes, the movie "Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher" and Tommy's time teaching combatives to Ukraine's …
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Send us a Text Message. On this special extra episode I delve back into my cultural heritage to reveal the truth of the most secret martial art of them all: Cor Chat! Support the show Music Credit: ▶Music Information Title: Circus Artist: Grow4Music (D) Photo: JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash Genre: Soundtrack + Fun + Bright + Active ▶'Soundcloud' downlo…
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Send us a Text Message. This special episode revisits the "Way of the Bear" theme first covered in the penultimate show of the second season (2019). Since losing my mother in 2021, I have become more reflective on what she taught me and its influence over my own teaching. Therefore, this episode is dedicated to all the wise mothers who guide their …
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Send us a Text Message. "When Parents Aren't Around: A Young Person's Guide to Self-Protection" is a critically acclaimed book and service. The totally revised, re-edited and fully illustrated new edition has additional material and will be available as both an Ebook and a paperback for the first time. Also for the first time I am offering certifie…
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Martial Anarchy - Iain Abernethy Discussion
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Send us a Text Message. On this episode we take the "Everything is Martial Arts" route again but this time with a guest. Iain Abernethy and I discuss how punk rock can parallel and intersect with martial arts. Also, check out the release of the new edition of "When Parents Aren't Around" and be a part of the change in children's realistic self-prot…
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The Way of the Rabbit Redux (Chinese New Year Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. I may have missed the New Year date in line with the Gregorian calendar. However, the Chinese Zodiac’s calendar begins on 22nd January. It’s the Year of the Rabbit and so I took the opportunity to run my two Way of the Rabbit shows from way back in season 2 as a bumper edition. The content still stands up but I apologise for…
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Cakewalker Part V: Just Another Fight? (Christmas Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. The final episode to this two season/eight-part story has arrived. Jersey Joe and Ezzard are head-to-head in a living chess match played out in the boxing ring. Walcott breaks records in challenging for the world heavyweight title for an historic fourth time, but no one wants to be known as great loser. What will be his lega…
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Cakewalker Part IV: Sometimes the Shadows Win (Christmas Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. The penultimate episode of the Cakewalker quintology and the entire Jersey Joe Walcott story (first started in season four's trilogy, "Coal for Jersey Joe"). Ezzard Charles faces the pressure of being a heavyweight champion that followed the beloved Joe Louis. Meanwhile, Louis is forced out of retirement by severe financial …
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Cakewalker Part III: Just a Left Hook (Christmas Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. Christmas takes us full circle as we continue with the Jersey Joe Walcott story. We pick up with the build up to Jersey Joe's third attempt at the world heavyweight title. The National Boxing Association declares the position vacant with its former holder, Joe Louis, promoting a fight to determine the new champion. Jersey Jo…
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Cakewalker Part II: Rise of the Cincinnati Cobra
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Send us a Text Message. We return to the first half of the 20th century and our saga of an unsung boxing hero. After winning the respect of the world but not the championship, Jersey Joe Walcott and the longest reigning world heavyweight king, Joe Louis, know they must face one another again. Meanwhile a new devastating force rises through the weig…
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The Last Night of the Ghouls Redux! (Halloween Bonus Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. This bonus show is a re-edited, re-recorded and newly produced version of our original Halloween episode from season one. Enjoy! In this special edition of the Clubb Chimera Martial Arts podcast, we re-visit Halloween 1828 and the climax of a series of cold-blooded murders. Taking a self-protection eye, we look at how raw op…
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Martial Movie Massacre Monster Mash (Halloween Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. You thought it was dead! You thought it was gone! But for this special Halloween episode Jamie Clubb's Podcast presents "Martial Movie Massacre Monster Mash!" This show looks at the nature of fear, how scary places factors into our situational awareness, the truth about the full moon, silver bullet solutions and unstoppable …
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Cakewalker Part I - Grotesque Dancer in the Garden
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Send us a Text Message. We return to the Jersey Joe Walcott story in this new series of episodes. Having won his opportunity to challenge for the world heavyweight championship, Jersey Joe faces one of history's greatest boxers: Joe Louis. It's been an arduous journey and few people hold out much for the challenger. However, Jersey Joe and his camp…
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Topics for the Podcast - We need your vote!
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Send us a Text Message. This is the soundtrack taken from my vlog of the same name. There are six new podcasts that I wish to produce. However, I am putting in your hands to decide the order. Please request to join the Clubb Chimera Martial Arts Facebook group and place your vote on the poll. Clubb Chimera Martial Arts Facebook Group Clubb Chimera …
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Send us a Text Message. The 73rd or 70th episode (depending on your perspective) is the most unashamedly self-indulgent yet. I tie in religious texts, mythology, punk rock, Ernest Hemingway, Plato, Elvis, Don Quixote, Shakespeare, Idi Amin, Georgette Heyer, Henry V and many other disparate concepts and people into the story of martial arts. Let's G…
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Martial Arts & Your Life: The Story of Us - Lawrence A. Kane Interview Part II
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Send us a Text Message. The concluding part of my discussion with Lawrence Kane on the seminal book on martial arts subculture he authored with previous podcast guest, Kris Wilder. This episode we look more into the reasoning behind the questionnaire order that was used to collect data for this book on martial artists. Both Lawrence and I were surp…
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Martial Arts & Your Life: The Story of Us - Lawrence A. Kane Interview Part I
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Send us a Text Message. Lawrence Kane is a hugely respected martial arts teacher and best-selling author. Along with Kris Wilder he has produced an immensely significant study on martial arts subculture. By carefully constructing a survey, they have compiled surprising and enlightening data on the people who practise martial arts. Clubb Chimera Web…
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Send us a Text Message. On this episode we look at peer pressure through the lens of fiction: how herd mentality or the need to fit in can influence otherwise rational and moral human beings to commit heinous crimes. Although all the references for this episode come from feature films, television programmes and literature, most are inspired by real…
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The Martial Art of Communication - Joe Saunders Interview
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Send us a Text Message. "Your pain in my heart" - It's not a likely quote to see flying around the self-protection subculture and industry, but when it comes to better managing potential violence such thinking makes a world of difference. On this episode Australia's Joe Saunders of the "Managing Violence" podcast discusses the role of empathy in de…
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Send us a Text Message. It’s 5th February 1943 at the Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Michigan. Sugar Ray Robinson enters the ring to face his latest opponent. Robinson has fought 40 professional bouts now, not losing one, and has been dazzling audiences since his amateur days. Tonight is a rematch. The man standing across from the ring is Jake La Motta.…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode discusses the way movement is often neglected in martial arts training. Shownotes/links: Clubb Chimera Website Clubb Chimera Facebook Page Clubb Chimera Twitter Clubb Chimera YouTube Clubb Chimera Instagram Jamie Clubb Books Christian O'Brian - Foreman's Karate & Fitness Mikael Oddershede - Holsterbro Taekwondo …
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Presilience & the Martial Art of Life (New Year Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. Our New Year episode is an interview with Dr Gavriel Schneider, a leader in human based risk management and the psychology of risk. He is a serial entrepreneur and has been running his own businesses since 2001. He was recently listed as one of only twenty Global Influencers in Security Thought Leadership for 2019 & 2020 as …
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Coal for Jersey Joe (Part 3) (Christmas Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. Our Christmas story concludes as Jersey Joe Walcott finds his "angel" in the unlikely form of a local gangster. He has had promises before but never one that comes with a basement full of coal. Can Felix Bocchicchio convince desperate Arnold Cream, supporting a family of eight, to come out of retirement and try to make it bi…
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Coal for Jersey Joe (Part 2) (Christmas Episode)
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Send us a Text Message. The second installment of the Christmas/New Year podcast story, "Coal for Jersey Joe". As Jersey Joe struggles to bring up a family and make enough money to eat, let alone fight, he finds himself languishing in the role of a journeyman boxer. Meanwhile Joe Louis faces his own problems as his journey to heavyweight championsh…
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Send us a Text Message. On the day after Boxing Day Peter Jones of Kajuen Ryu has kindly booked me to teach for his excellent club for two hours. The subject will be stand-up guards, their strengths and weaknesses. I am particularly looking forward to teaching this ever evolving topic and hoping to put to bed a few myths that can circulate in our m…
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