A Rude Awakening: The Inefficacy of Most Martial Arts Training It’s an all too common story. The dedicated martial arts practitioner with years of experience and several stripes on his belt is finally faced with an opportunity to showcase his hard earned skills and he…flops. He and many like him wrongly assume that martial arts [...]
Effective Self Defense Techniques and Training: Where Martial Arts Training Falls Short
May 30, 2009 By 2 Comments
Hand and Body Conditioning (Hardening) in Martial Arts: Preparing Your Body for Combat
May 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Most people have seen pictures or video footage of a martial artist smashing ice blocks or brick with their hands, head or feet. And most people assume that these people are super human or incredibly gifted. While it may be true most of these feats of mind over matter require a higher tolerance for pain [...]
Meditation for Beginners: Meditations for Peace, Power, and Martial Arts
May 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The term Meditation is one of the most misused and misconstrued words in the English language. It’s applied to images of solitary monks quietly sitting or chanting cross-legged on a mountain peak, to catholic monks who are contemplating scripture or deep esoteric truths of their faith, to those trying to transcend experience into a larger [...]
Personal Training Article #4: Stretching and Flexibility Training for Fitness and Martial Arts
May 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Flexibility is something that needs no advocate. We all know that stretching is good for us. We all want to be more flexible. And none of us want to work for it. And unless we practice something that requires a high degree of flexibility, there is little incentive to push past comfort levels into potentially [...]
