During today’s class, we’ll be looking at the word “Kamae;” how it’s different from the more commonly used, “Dachi;” and the mindsets within the 3 primary & interrelated postures (‘sanden kamae’) of the Gyokko (“‘Jeweled’/’Jade’ Tiger”) school.

During this week’s training session we’ll be looking the Omote & Ura Gyaku, bone-shattering wrist locks, but from the perspective of “principles” that govern nearly all of your other locks, holds, and throwing self-defense techniques. If you think you know the gyaku-te waza as the joint locks they are (on the surface), that’ll be a

During this week’s training session we’ll be looking at the opposite end of the spectrum from last week’s lesson – where I’ll be outlining my ‘4 Pillars’ Framework for training WITH a knife for self-protection

During this week’s training session I’ll be highlighting 3 Key Principles for Surviving an Attack from a knife-wielding assailant.

During this week’s class we’ll be looking at the concept of Ritsudo (“rhythm”) and how it related to the 3 types of timing that I look for in the skill proficiency of students in the early Black Belt levels of the Warrior Concepts Mastery Curriculum.