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My student's flight response has been engaged. She is reacting, not responding. She knows what she wants to do but every time the particular stimulus comes her body leaps to its most conditioned panic response.
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Remember back to the beginning of March, oh so many weeks ago, when we could stand close enough to one another to cross swords, or tap feet and elbows in greeting. All the way back on the weekend of March 6–8 we hosted 25 instructors and over 100 students from around the world to an amazing inter-cultural martial arts event.
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The more secrets under your belt, the easier it is to stay on top. But this is a limited view that keeps you from truly expanding your ability as a martial artist.
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Be mindful about how you use your energy. Be efficient about your movements. Only do what you need to do and remember that distance between you and your opponent is your friend.
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I’m often asked how one should divide up their training and learning time for optimal effectiveness. Every training activity can be divided into further divisions and there are good and bad strategies for all of them.
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Martial Arts have meant many things to me over time. Here are some of the outcomes I feel are found within the HEMA disciplines we practice at Academie Duello.
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It can feel wonderful to receive praise. But these types of compliments may be programming you to avoid risk and seek approval.
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I was turned on by sparring right away. Win or lose, I loved the environment, I loved the contact, and being able to truly test my skills with a weapon that allowed me to practice a large percentage of its deadly techniques in a safe, non-injurious manner. Yet for all the rewards that sparring can offer it can also be a destructive force in one's pursuit of a martial art.
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One of the core reasons to set goals and work to achieve them is to build happiness, fulfillment, and sense of self. But if you're using your goals to beat yourself up or hold yourself back, you'd do better to change your strategy regarding goals.
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If you want to become an excellent practitioner of something (and that is a worthy goal), then you are going to need to call on yourself to do something you can't yet do and keep asking for the yet-unreachable again and again.
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