Thomas Marx

 

My Name is Thomas Marx, I’m 29 and I do martial arts since I was 15.

 

I did Jeet Kune Do since I was 18 on my own. Since September 2007, from the beginning I am a member of Tommy’s Online Club. Till my Online Club membership I have learned on my own, learned from the books (mainly the method books). Most of this time I have trained with my friend Bernhard, who you can see on the pics, he is the one in red pants.

 

Since I took the online lessons, my training has changed a lot, now I focus only on the important things, practicing footwork, punching, kicking, intercepting, and so on. I don’t do any trapping anymore, which I did a lot earlier. The most important is that I now know how it should be done. You can’t find this anywhere, there is no book or video about it! I’m really happy to have that opportunity to learn from Tommy, otherwise I had never figured out what JKD really is!

 

I train at three to five times a week, about two times with a training partner. When I train alone I focus a lot on my form, I work on individual techniques and footwork. In training with training partner, I focus on applying techniques, footwork, combinations, hard punching or kicking using focus pads. I run several times a week, it depends on the weather or my mood how often.

 

I also do some supplementary exercises aligned to martial arts.

 

So much from me, thanks for reading!