VHS videos of classes from Cumann Bhata WMA seminar are now available. To keep it on topic for this group: Pugilsim with Ken Pfrenger These are amature video...
For a long time now, I have been looking for schools and/or seminars dealing with classical (London Prize Ring Rules) pugilism. I'm hoping to find these in the...
Hey, glad to have you on board. My name is Wic, I run the Philadelphia Irish-American Martial Arts Club. We do the Broughton era BKB. The focus being on...
Hi Wic Thanks for the invitation! I'll try to see if I can come down sometime soon. Right now I'm trying to get "regular" boxing down a bit better before...
Hi Alan , I take it your referring to the picture in which the figure has the right hand up in front of the face and the left down low against the body!. If...
... I must be misunderstanding the question because I read it and think, "Ummm... You hit the solar plexus with whatever punch you can get to land (strait...
Is the solar plexus the target just below the rib cage below the sternum? ... I must be misunderstanding the question because I read it and think, "Ummm... You...
To answer your question, yes. The Solar Plexus muscles are the top two Abdominal muscles. They are located directly below the Sternum. The reason for the...
Hey everyone, There will be a workshop held Oct.15 here in Philadelphia on: Intro to Irish Shillelagh, Intro to An Bata Mor, and Intro to Broughton Era ...
Can you give more details or Fitzsimmons's cockscrew punch? alan ... test'; "> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?...
No problem. But let me clarify, the corkscrew punch was not Fitzsimmons'. It was Kid McCoy who used the corkscrew back in the mid- 1800's. Fitzsimmons was...
... That's interesting. The etymology I heard for "The real McCoy" was that it came from a bootlegger of high-quality liquor named McCoy during the ...
Actually doesn't the cliché "The real McCoy" go back to Ireland and the Leprechauns? The leprechauns as the tale goes would protect gold and sometimes what...
Solar Plexus punch.....possibly the most devastating body shot. As for the real McCoy and Kid McCoy.....Kid McCoy fought around the turn of the century mostly...
"Dempsey devotes a small section of his book to Kid McCoys corkscrew." Hi Ken, Could you give us an overview of what Dempsey had to say about the Corkscrew...
… "In the "normal" punching position, the outside left hook is very useful as a lead that shoots behind the guarding right hand. And it is useful as a ...
... Not long winded in the least, thanks for sharing how you guys do it. It has been years since I seriously toyed witht he cross guard. If the weather clears...
Last weekend at ISMAC in Lansing MI, I was lucky enough to get to present my Jack Dempsey pugilism to a nice sized class of interested and skilled seminar...
Ken (and other Dempsey enthusiasts), That sound great. I saw some of your Dempsey material this summer but not as much it seems, as what was taught at...
... I focused on both dempsey and Mendoza in PA...should have stuck to one or the other really but wnated to give an overview and left feeling that I did not...
I would like a copy of Dempsey's book Dennis Ken Pfrenger <kenpfrenger@...> wrote: ... I focused on both dempsey and Mendoza in PA...should have stuck to...
I'm hoping. Dennis Ken Pfrenger <kenpfrenger@...> wrote: ... There was one available last month online but it has vanished....anyone have one they could...
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