New perspective as a martial artist after having a family(and a writer)

First the martial arts: So whether it’s karate or MMA, I never understood for a long time why people with disposable income and a car never cross trained outside the gyms they were a part of. Shit I had no consistent income or a car and I still tried to cross train! My parents helped

Martial Artists need to be honest with themselves.

People who do martial arts often need a reason to do what they do. The combat sports guy would say stuff about how MMA or boxing is the ultimate test of manhood, that it’s proven to be the best method of combat and thus they want to be strong. They will talk about the high

Khabib and the cage: Why he would be MORE dominant in a ring.

Khabib is not a perfect person or even a perfect martial artist. He has areas he’s weak at, etc. Hell when I saw him fight Edson Barbosa, I thought the way he just plodded forward would get him countered against McGreggor. But when Khabib fought McGregor, he didn’t plod forward, he controlled the distance very

Physical training as a skill 3: Peng is plyometrics.

Yes it’s another article talking about the cross over between athleticism and skill. We are talking Peng and plyometrics. I miss doing plyometrics, if i wasn’t so broken I would do them. Now lets get into it. If someone has done Pa kua, Taiji or Hsing I, there are concepts of aliveness that cross over

What was Sonny Umpad and his students secret to success?

I’ve made two blog posts about “The Hustler” and it’s author Maija Soderholm(I probably mangled her name) Thing is she talks extensively about her teacher Sonny Umpad, how he trained and how he taught her to think. And it’s not just Maija who was impressed by him. He’s not well known, but those who know

One of my biggest pet peeves about aging martial artists.

Lets talk about aging martial artists and strength. So relying on strength when trying to learn technique is not a good thing. Most people would say that. Now if the technique requires a level of strength(Like a high crotch) it still must be executed smoothly and with good body mechanics, the maximum levage. The fact

Speed is an expression of strength.

Many years ago I was talking to my senior in my karate classes. He’s got very fast hands. I remember mentioning that speed is actually an expression of strength, but he said emphatically it isn’t, it’s technique. We didn’t argue, we never got a chance to hash the discussion out. But he was almost(i literally

Combat training is perishable: The bright side and down side of change and evolution in a martial artist.

One problem in martial arts is people never evolve. They never try to change things to suit their own body or their students body, just repeating what sensei, sifu or coach taught them. Always doing the same thing. Now it certainty isn’t the worst thing to do. A boxing gym that did the same thing

Counter assault: How does it actually work? Badly organized musings.

I’ve been talking with Dillon Byer about models. And one thing without a doubt is the fact that learning a pre-conditioned response is far better than what is taught in many traditional and even western schools that teach self-defense and counter assault. The thing is, that too is a model. And the actual neuro-science behind

WAIT! Catch wrestling used to be in the Olympics? WHAT!!!

I watched this video, and it makes many wonderful points. But if there is anything I learned from watching it, it’s that martial artists should never ever ever ever want their style to get into the Olympics if they still want it to have a combative focus. Most notable was the fact that when the