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Welcome to our new site
Thank you for taking the time to visit our site. I have to say that this is about more than a new site layout. The Combat Lab Russian Martial Arts Northwest site is the culmination of a lot of hard work and even harder decision making. For a number of years I have wondered exactly what to put on our site to best portray the new ways that we are training and structure our classes. Though heavily influenced by my years of studying and teaching for the Vladimir Vasiliev and Michael Ryabko Systema Schools, I want our site to reflect that our group now teaches their material alongside other Russian Martial Arts including Kadochnikov Systema, Sistema Homoludens and our own ideas.
By creating Combat Lab I am able to do this, encourage others to develop their own ideas and to pass on the results of my own research and development. This is not about creating a large international school. Simply put we are a cottage industry of small groups who share information and train instructors capable of striking the balance between maintaining standards whilst not stunting their own personal development by adhering to one method of training.
The structure breaking book and the acompanying Hard Clutch attack / soft clutch defence DVD is part of this information process, as will be the continuance of our seminar series and this blog. Future projects will include a series of additional DVDs on structure breaking, lectures and practical training sessions on self defence and the law. At some point I also hope to release a series on the various striking methods I have been exposed to in Russian Martial Arts.
Again I would like to thank you for taking the time to read our articles and hope you will revisit to see what we are up to and what information we have to share. These are exciting times for Combat Lab and Russian Martial Arts in general. In recent years the numbers of sources available that provide information on Russian Martial Arts has recently increased with the creation of new combat systems and the emergence schools from Russia that provide instruction to Western students.
I hope this site will encourage others to travel and research these groups and report their findings. If you do want to write a piece on a research trip and have it submitted to our blog feel free to contact me directly.
Paul Genge