The advanced gun defense skills of disarms and retention – arguably the most overlooked gen defense skill sets – are critical if your serious about learning how to protect yourself in self-defense situations involving firearms. During today’s episode of Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday, we’ll be looking at scenarios where weapon disarms and weapon retention skills are

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Advanced Gun Defense | Disarms & Retention

During this evening’s class we will be covering what was supposed to be covered in last Friday’s Shinobi Kai class, but no one showed up for class other than Shidoshi Whistler and I. To make sure those who paid for the Friday Virtual Class get what they paid for we will cover it tonight in

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05-02-2023 – Striking Unseen Points

Your brain is wired to protect you from death or perceived death/danger. This includes both instinctive, hard-wired things like not letting the saber-toothed tiger eat you, all the way to guarding against what you tell it you’re afraid of. During this episode, we’ll be taking a look at the lessons I received regrading just “how

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e158 – KUDEN! – Red Pill / Blue Pill Decision-Making

We’ll be training with a major focus on striking your opponent’s “unseen” points, based on what I covered during this week’s Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday session. Again, as my theme for the Black Belts and Shinobi-kai students this month is on the concept of ichi-go ichi-e (one moment/one chance), this will play a major factor into this class as well.

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04-28-2023 – Striking the Unseen Points

In this Ninjutsu training, we’ll be looking at the concept of combining our striking with our “invisibility” skills as we attack what the grandmaster calls, “the unseen targets.”

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Making Your Ninjutsu Strikes Invisible!

I began in the Ninja’s arts in 1980 (I know, I’ve got a few years behind me!). Over the years I’ve seen, not only the “face” of the art change but also, the way students approach the art change. Hollywood and teen slang aside, one of the biggest changes I’ve seen has to do with

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e157 – KUDEN! – Do You THINK Like a Ninja?

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 belt), Yondan (‘4th degree black belt), and above.  They will also be helpful to those working through or reviewing Module 3 skills and techniques.

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04-25-2023 – Takagi Yoshin & Shinden-Fudo Ryu

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, as my theme for the Black Belts and Shinobi-kai students this month is on the concept of ichi-go ichi-e (one moment/one chance), this will play a major factor into

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04-21-2023 – 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 to it than that when you’re trying to defend yourself? Can we do more with our strikes to create more than just damage? Can we give ourselves

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Advanced Striking Angles