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 […]
Skill is rank but rank does not equal skill What Dan grade are you? So many people ask that common question when they find out that you practice martial arts. Are you any good? Years ago I used to be asked are you a black belt? Nowadays the black belt has been watered down so […]
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, […]
A mistake is just a lesson in progress Are you the type of instructor that does not want to make a mistake or worse still are you the type of instructor who is scared to make a mistake? In martial arts when we first learn new principles or techniques we will not perform them to […]
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 […]