04-21-2023 – Advanced Striking Angles

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,

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Advanced Striking Angles

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

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04-18-2023 – Koto Ryu Shoden no Maki Kata

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

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e156 – KUDEN! – How to REALLY Look at Your Kata!

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

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04-14-2023 – Muto Dori

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

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Knife Defense Basics 101

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

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04-11-2023

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e155 Hidden Lessons Within Kata Names?

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?

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04-07-2023 – Elbows

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

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How to Use Your Elbows in Ninjutsu

In the art of Ninjutsu, the use of the elbows for striking is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In this training, we’ll be going beyond striking

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