During tonight’s class, we’ll be focusing on a few techniques from the Takagi-Yoshin and Shinden-Fudo schools. These techniques are especially important to those of you working on your requirements for Sandan (‘3rd degree black
We’ll be training with a major focus on striking angles to control his movements, options, and positioning, based on what I covered during this week’s Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday session. Again,
In martial arts and self-defense training, it could be said that a strike is a strike – a punch is a punch – right? But could there more
During tonight’s class, we’ll be focusing on a technique or three from the Shoden level of the Koto school. These techniques are especially important to those of you working on your requirements
Are the kata in our (or any) martial art, really usable for real-world self-defense? And, if so, how? Because the stiff, preset, choreographed models – whether done solo
We’ll be training with a major focus on unarmed defense vs knife attacks as I covered during this week’s Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday session. But, as my theme for the Black
During this class, I teach you knife defense basics – the basic “rules” for surviving against an assailant armed with a knife or other edged weapon. (Rule #1
Other than identifying one kata or technique from another, is there anything special about their names? Can a kata’s name help you in mastering the technique or not?
We’ll be training with a major focus on using the elbows as I covered during this week’s Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday session. But, as my theme for the Black Belts and