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Category: Training and Motivation

Tips, videos, articles and insight on the subject of training and motivation

What is the best martial art?

31st May 2022

An age-old question that plagues all martial artists once in their life is what is the best martial art? The answer to this question has many answers. Some will say the art that they train in is the best to them. As an example, a lifelong Brazilian ju jitsu practitioner may have the view that

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A Wise Sensei Once Said In A Dojo Not So Far Away

22nd March 2019

A Wise Sensei Once Said in A Dojo Not So Far away is a collection of quotes/training tips from a collection of modern and historical martial artists with analysis from the author. some of the quotes/tips featured are from leading industry experts such as Iain Abernethy, Kris Wilder and also historical figures such as Choki

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Why martial artists should hit stuff.

14th March 2019

Why martial artists should hit stuff Well first and foremost karate and combat are percussion arts and therefore how can you measure the effectiveness of your technique if you only ever kick or punch thin air? Also by never testing your technique you risk injuring yourself through poor training habits such as bent wrists or

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The Blue Belt Blues – Regaining your martial motivation.

7th March 2019

The blue belt blues. In the martial arts students often stall in their progress, they feel frustrated and often struggle with motivation, this frequently happens at blue belt, but it can happen to any students of any grade. Why do we stall? Typically when we start karate our learning curve is very steep- we feel

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Why only learning sport fighting will let you down in self-defence.

17th February 2019

It is one of my pet hates when sport fighting clubs like some tournament orientated karate schools, kickboxing clubs and Jujitsu clubs advertise that they teach self-defence. What they do is okay for some situations but consider this: Roughly 40% of self defence situations involve multiple attackers, which by its nature is a very dangerous

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How your reticular activating system focuses you life.

16th February 2019

The brain is an amazing organ, it takes in and records all the information from all five or our senses. If we had access to all of our memories and were flooded with stimulus from all of our senses all the time we would struggle to focus. So to prevent us from being over whelmed

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Shuhari- three levels of learning

1st February 2019

Shuhari is a Japanese concept which can be taken to extremely esoteric levels, but for us, as practical martial artists we should initially view it simply as three levels of learning: Shu(守?) : In this beginning stage the student concentrates on how to do the task. The goal here is to learn to control your

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Is karate training the closest thing to becoming a real life Jedi?

1st February 2019

Karate Jedi It is no accident that Jedi robes look a little similar to a karate gi. Jedi were meant to look like a cross between a samurai warrior and a Buddhist monk- strong warriors but also wise and religiously devoted to their craft. Obviously, karate students don’t have lightsabers nor can we use the

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How to tie your belt

1st February 2019
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How to apply your iron on milestones

25th January 2019
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