Can you flow? Water flows, the waves on the sea flow, a fountain flows, nature flows. In the dictionary it explains the meaning of flow as; ‘’To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity.’’ How does this relate to our martial arts training? Or for that matter anything we are trying to achieve in life […]
Is your martial art pressure tested? So many people do so many different types of martial arts and everyone has their own reasons for doing each one. The main reason is if push came to shove would it be an effective aid in saving your life if needed and does your training reflect a realistic […]
There is only one angle of attack and defence? This is a funny observation, how many angles of attack and defence do you know? When learning the knife, sword, stick or just boxing how many angles are there? In the Filipino arts most styles teach a basic 6 to 12 angles of attack and defence […]
Hips Don’t lie Not just a Shikira song, funny thing to say in a martial arts blog but please bare with me. Martial arts and it really does not matter what style/system you use should be about effortless motion using the body to its maximum effect but with economy of motion and efficiency of movement. […]
Repetition Repetition Repetition Just siting here thinking about how I can improve my teaching skills and the best way to pass on knowledge to my students to help them improve in their martial arts. An observation I have encountered is students won’t spend enough time repeating a movement or skill they are trying to perfect […]
Improve it, evolve it or forget it We love shiny toys and new things that look cool and or have that wow factor, this is obvious in the way that we buy new cars, the latest clothes. trends, gadgets and the latest get rich scheme (bit coin) hoping that it will solve all our problems […]
MMA or Traditional martial arts? If I had a penny for the amount of times people have said to me that MMA is more realistic than Traditional martial arts and that Traditional martial arts would not work in UFC. So before I get lots of love mails, texts and keyboard master warriors writing to me, […]
Knife disarms a romantic notion? Just finished watching Jason bourne, you have to love the way he dispatches the baddies, they have knifes, machetes, karambits but it’s no problem for Jason he takes them all on and still is able to sprint to the next encounter, I wonder what martial art he studied? Are we […]
Don’t let space invaders win! Strange title you may think but if we take that literally from a self defence aspect we do not want to let aggressors invade our space. If you allow aggressive people into your personal space violence will surely ensue. What do we mean by invading your personal space, well if […]
Are you self defence ready? Are you self defence ready or do you go around like the masses with your head stuck in your phone? If something happened would you be ready to take action? These are important questions you have to ask yourself. The other day I was walking towards home and on my […]