How Persistence Pays Off and 2 Form Tips This Week In Martial Arts
Pre-blog notes: – I’m in Indianapolis today, spending a portion of the day teaching DDPYoga level 1. If you’re reading this, stop by! – I post a new This Week In Martial Arts every Saturday morning. When you’re done with this one, go back and check out all the other cool links I’ve pulled over the […]
Review: The 87 Fold Path To Being The Best Martial Artist
No matter what stage of your martial arts journey you’re in, you should get The 87 Fold Path To Being The Best Martial Artist by Lawrence A. Kane and Kris Wilder. This book is 330+ pages, but it’s an easy read because it’s divided into (you guessed it) 87 chapters. Each chapter reads like a blog […]
Road Rage, Hand Postures, Dead Karate and More: This Week in Martial Arts
You might as well change my middle name to “Honky Tonk” because I did some honky tonkin’ this week while I spent a few days in Nashville for a marketing seminar. I know, I know… I’m shocked, too. My cousin lives there, and she took me to some fun places to eat delicious Southern food […]
Review: Clean Concepts in Kane & Wilder’s Dirty Ground
Martial arts instructors teach some pretty brutal moves. Some show the moves without providing much context. “This is the person’s attack. This is your defense. Practice it,” they say. But self-defense is much more nuanced than that. Luckily for me, I train under instructors who challenge my assumptions about what I would do in a […]
Scaling Force: A Review of Rory Miller and Lawrence A. Kane’s Book on How to Choose the Right Response Level
It’s not often I read a book twice within six months. But that’s exactly what I did with the latest book from Rory Miller and Lawrence A. Kane. Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence is essential for anybody who studies self-defense. As a karateka, most of my time is spent working strikes, locks, […]