Martial Wisdom

In this episode we explore the importance of a precept in my martial discipline of "respect for Creator and creation" and how this can improve our martial journal and personal experience as a human being.

In this episode, we focus on dissecting and understanding the key components of a Martial Defense System.  Understanding these 3 fundamental training methods and applying our time and energy to each can improve our self-defense exponentially.

In this episode, we will explore the concept of fear states and the sympathetic response, seek to understand the response better, embrace it as a positive response, and share practical martial arts training scenarios to learn to master our own fears.  Let us all break free from letter our fear response enslave us.

In this episode, we offer a unique and helpful perspective on understanding the current COVID-19 Pandemic and try to provide practical solutions to protecting our families, friends, selves, and fellow citizens from a seemingly invisible enemy.  Self-defense is not simply learning to defend against a physical attack, but how to adapt and survive any seemingly dangerous situation you are placed within.

You could be the most athletic, most technical martial artist or fighter and yet be defeated by your inner demons unless you practice the internal way.  In this episode we explore the concept of practicing martial arts and self-defense internally.  There is so often so little emphasis placed on this aspect of martial arts and we are going to challenge you to try integrating martial arts and self-defense into your internal life to be a healthier and happier individual.  If you have internal strength and health, you can survive all things and even thrive in the most challenging of situations.

This is the first of several episodes regarding knife defense.  In this episode we take an evidenced-based approach regarding knife attacks on unarmed individuals.  The goal of this episode is to help martial arts and self-defense practitioners and schools to better understand the reality of a knife attacks and evolve more realistic ways to train for such attacks.

In this episode we explain practical ways to learn to develop the Warrior or Fighting Spirit and how to flip that switch when life requires you to.

Here I share some keys to defending yourself against a larger opponent.