Category: Training Blog

What is the purpose your art is serving? What are the ends that you're driving toward? What will it look like when you're done? Who will you be?

Martial arts practice on my own can be one of the great pleasures of my week. I don't have to worry about providing for a partner or guiding a student…

Having a collection of sparring partners who by nature were as focused or as broad as you needed to best meet your training needs would be ideal. You …

Many are afraid that if they really enjoy themselves they’ll lose their edge. Yet I do think there is much more to be gained from the type of joy th…

These are principles that we look to in our approach to armed and unarmed fighting. In particular I look to them not just as single avenues upon which…

What makes an expert coach is that they have a strong sense of the goals of given techniques, and have made lots of attempts to pinpoint key areas and…

How do you really make someone a master? How do you know where you should set the goal posts and when you've reached them? We're defining the route wh…

How do I make the other people in my group drill and do exercises? The short answer is that you don't "make" them do anything. But with a bit of empat…

I had the pleasure this past weekend of being a judge, ring director, and instructor at Lord Baltimore's Challenge in Washington, DC, an event put on …

Coming back after a long break? Stepping it up in a way you haven't before? Fact: the first week will be hard.