Have you ever had self-confidence called into question? Have you ever made a comfortable decision about something, demonstrate something that someone needed to learn, or expressed yourself from a place of knowing and had someone call you…arrogant? During today’s episode, based on a topic submission from one of our listeners, we’ll be looking at the

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E164 – KUDEN! – Confidence vs Arrogance (…?)

During this episode, we take a look at emotion-based self-defense – a highly overlooked area within the realm of martial arts and self-defense training – and the role that emotions play as drivers to self-defense response and action.

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Emotion-Based Self-Defense

During today’s class, we’ll be working through a few of the Koto-Ryu kata in our Mastery Level 1 curriculum for those students focused on attaining their Nidan (2nd degree Black Belt), as-well-as using preemptive timing and movement to break our assailant’s advantage and “bring the kata to life” for more upper level students.

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06-13-2023 – Koto-Ryu Kata and “Bringing Kata to Life”

In this class you will: Learn how to see your weapons as “tools” so you’re NOT caught by the same limiting beliefs that your attacker will have! How to overcome the trap of “conventional thinking” and be able to apply your weapons in ways your attacker has NEVER seen and won’t expect! How to see almost ANY tool as a “combination” weapon to 10X

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06-09-2023 – Ninja Combination Weapons

Strategic Thinking Outside the Box!During today’s episode, we’ll be looking at a few examples of Ninja combination weapons as examples of strategic “outside the box” thinking.

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Ninja Combination Weapons

During today’s class, we’ll be focusing our attention on improving Gyaku / Kansetsu-waza (‘reversals’ / ‘joint locks’), with a special focus on Hon-Gyaku (‘principal reversal/lock’).

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06-06-2023 – Gyaku / Kansetsu-waza

Students, practioners, and those interested in Ninjutsu, the Ninja’s martial and personal development arts, are encouraged to develop success far beyond the dojo and their fighting and self-defense skills. And that all starts with clearly defining one’s goals. But what if THAT becomes the problem; the reason why some students, no matter how much they

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E163 – KUDEN! – Your Goal is Your Limitation

In this class you will: Learn why “the dojo is NOT the fight environment,” and why true self-defense Mastery lies in the 90% of the art that you WON’T learn in class! How to overcome what my teacher called “dojo syndrome” – a dreaded “disease” – that, if not corrected, can and will make your techniques and skills fail you… when you

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06-02-2023 – Defending Within Your ‘Castle’ Walls

One of the earliest lessons I received, and one of the most important things that attracted me to the art of Ninjutsu, was the skill of ‘invisibility’. Of course, getting past the scoffing and disbelief this inevitably invokes was the first of many lesons needed to be able to develop this skill. During this episode,

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e162 – KUDEN! – Becoming Invisible to Attackers!