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In this episode of KUDEN! Radio, Dai-Shihan Jeffrey M. Miller explores the counterintuitive approach of reverse-engineering your martial arts training goals. Drawing on more than four decades of martial arts experience, he’ll explain how identifying the problems you want to solve and the capabilities you need can help you develop a more purposeful approach to
What if some of the most important lessons you’ll ever learn aren’t taught during class? For more than four decades, Dai-Shihan Jeffrey M. Miller has studied the martial arts, including years of training with some of the most respected teachers in the Bujinkan tradition. But some of his most meaningful lessons didn’t come during formal
What if the next lesson you need isn’t another technique, kata, or martial art—but something you’ve been practicing for years and still haven’t recognized? In this episode of KUDEN! Radio, Dai-Shihan Jeffrey M. Miller explores how martial arts training can sometimes create a thinking trap: we become so focused on what Ninjutsu, or any other
Would your training help you if you were attacked tomorrow? If you’ve trained for years, your answer may be an immediate “Yes.” If you’re just getting started—or haven’t started yet—you may not be nearly as certain. But that raises an even more important question: How soon SHOULD martial arts and self-defense training begin preparing you
Does your martial arts strategy make you predictable? Learn why relying on one trusted technique, fight stance, or style can limit your real-world combat adaptability. We often develop favorite rhythms and ways to counter an attack because they work. But when the problem changes and you don’t, or can’t, that reliance becomes a liability. This
How does a Ninja learn when nobody gives him a complete lesson or answer? At some point, serious martial arts training has to move beyond imitating movement, and simply remembering what the teacher told you. Especially if your goal is real-world self-defense. You have to learn how to observe, gather information, recognize your own assumptions,
You’ve been training for months—or even years—but you still catch yourself stopping between different movements… …you’ve probably noticed yourself (or your teacher keeps yelling at you about) stopping, resetting, or hesitating between techniques, there’s a more important question you need to be asking: What happens if you need these skills before you’ve finally fixed the
If you want to develop real skill in Ninjutsu—or any martial art—what are you doing with what your teacher gives you between one class and the next? We often think of martial arts class as “practice time.” And yes, practice certainly takes place during class. But there’s an important difference between practicing something while your
A martial arts curriculum can tell you WHAT to learn—but who decides HOW you need to train to actually develop it? In last week’s KUDEN! Radio, we explored the idea that a curriculum should be more than a list of techniques, kata, skills, and belt requirements. The curriculum is the map. Capability is the destination.
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