Body hardening is like buying volcano insurance–if it turns out you need it, you’ve already lost Still on the tail end of sickness, this seems like an apt topic. Like many kung fu enthusiasts, in my youth I explored ways to mimic what we saw on film and those secretive masters behind their red doors[…]
With a few seminars coming to town in March, I thought I’d write about how to get the most out of your martial arts dollar, and if you teach, how to advise your students for a better long-term relationship. First thing’s first: pay your teacher on time. They don’t write off aging-AR, they just close[…]
Freestyle pad holding is the pinnacle of skill, but not always the summit of benefit to the hitter I just released a video on basic Thai pad holding addressing the most common error now in vogue, hitting into the strikes with the pads. Part of the roots of this problem comes from freestyle pad holding,[…]
New techniques and how to add them to your fight game. Here is a flow chart that we intuitively use when adding new techniques to our arsenal, but is useful to write down explicitly: I’ll write more on this below, but recall my video on using hubad training from Filipino kali as a quick way[…]