Chances are, if you train in a traditional form of Karate or Tang Soo Do, you have heard the Bubishi and the Moo Yae Dobo Tonji referenced a couple times by the instructors teaching you, and how it contains artifacts of what you are training in. This is all true, Continue Reading
Technique
When Your Passion Turns Into a Chore
When we start a new activity or hobby, we get a rush of excitement and usually are eager to absorb everything you can learn about it. The adrenaline of finding something new and pursuing it, along with sheer fascination of the subject, is really useful in helping you learn and Continue Reading
The Battle of the Century: Karate Vs. Guns
While martial arts can positively affect your life in many ways, there are a few mindsets you want to be cautious of as you begin to gain confidence. You can be the best martial artist in the world, but there’s a time and place to use your skills. If you’re Continue Reading
Stomp the Groin, Re-stomp the Groin, and Do It Again!
My YouTube homepage recommends me the perfect weird mix of martial arts, drag queens, music, and building things (constant search: real-life web swingers). Often times, I’ll get recommended videos of “Women’s Self Defense Techniques” or “5 Essential defense skills for Women” and others of the sort. Automatically when I see Continue Reading
Improving Your Footwork: A Step in the Right Direction
“If you can move efficiently and effectively, your basic techniques will take you the rest of the way!”
My Side Kick – Then And Now
Martial arts is, or should be about constant polishing and reflection. In doing so we must make ourselves vulnerable, and if there is one person we must make ourselves vulnerable to, we need be vulnerable to our own self. I will do that just now with you. Let’s take a Continue Reading
Learn to Use Your “Spidey Senses”, Decrease Your Reaction Time!
Martial arts is one of those unique activities that helps you improve your overall well being, not just in learning important skills that could keep you safe, but also in enhancing your subconscious movements. I don’t know about you, but before I started martial arts I was rather clumsy. Granted, Continue Reading
Treat Sparring Like A Jam Session
As discussed in my previous article about one step sparring. Free sparring is a soft skill, A skill that requires creativity, different experiences, and calculated risks to improve upon! In The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle, he suggests that the right environment to improve upon these skills is Continue Reading
3 Keys to Technical Success
David In judging basic techniques in my students and myself, my three points of focus are always connection, vectoring, and alignment. For me, connection refers to synchronizing the timing of my hand and foot, my hip and shoulder, and my wrists and ankles. It is important to synchronize the entire Continue Reading
More Than Just A Chop
Ever since the inception of Karate being taught to the public, people have always referred to the open handed techniques we do in our forms and applications as “chops”. Let’s be honest, you have probably called it that yourself at some point! Well let me tell you. Every time you Continue Reading