Define Your Own Criteria for Swordplay Success
Though winning can be thrilling, I recommend setting your sites on different targets for the best long-term success in becoming a master of these arts.
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Training Blog
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4-Part Routine for the Ultimate Warmup
Great performers are recognized because of their consistency, so get consistent in your warm-up so you can always show up fully.
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Don't Get Hung Up on Perfect Practice
Sometimes you just need to allow your body/brain to figure things out through exposure and repetition. Your unconscious mind is far better at identifying patterns (positive and negative) than your conscious mind.
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I don't like my training partner
You know that person who stands across from you and just can’t seem to do their part correctly in the exercise? Perhaps they feel compelled to outsmart every exercise with a counter, or maybe they have their own ideas of what the exercise should be, or don’t care to listen to what’s offered, or perhaps…
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Body Mechanics and Martial Arts
In the past I have written posts about posture and my journey to build it in myself. How we hold, carry, and move our bodies is essential to our practice as martial artists in two ways: Effective Martial Arts Requires Effective Mechanics. The heart of martial arts is body mechanics. Every technique you can perform…
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How Top Performers Deal with Bad Training Days
Not every training day is a brilliant one. Not every tournament is your best. Not every performance shows all that you’re capable of. Sometimes things are just plain crappy.
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Three Sources of Quality Feedback
If you plan to improve in your martial practice you need outside feedback. Here are three quality sources that you can seek out to get the most of your training time. Use these three E’s to keep your feedback accurate and reliable.
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Three Types of Practice
The more knowledge you gain, the more aware you are of what you do not know. The more ability and awareness of that ability you have, the more you can become aware of your flaws. Here are three approaches to an old training problem.
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Three Things You Should Be Saying to Your Swordfighting Students
When teaching a martial arts class you have an opportunity to not only convey technique but to positively shape thinking. The psychology with which we approach learning and practice is incredibly influential over our success at that practice and our energy to keep at it long term.
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Using Curiosity to Stay Slow in Slow-Fencing
The reality is that at full speed a reactive desperation to parry or an opportunistic desire to hit at all costs often create tunnel vision and lead to unwise actions, overextension, and exaggerated movement. These are all leading causes of losing bouts, not winning them.
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