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  • How to learn and improve from injury/illness

    We are sick and injured from time to time and it is a hidden gift in reminding us of our mortality and we learn to move with and around those areas and come out of the tunnel even stronger and in better neural and mental shape. Examples: The cement mixer: torso Sit on your behind…

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  • Tense to relax!

    Tense to relax!

    Many ideas work. Many ideas do not work at the same time. 🙂 Our job is to find and make up what works for us right now and see what does not. But further, We must understand why things do not work so we can learn from them. Only then, we can move past them.…

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  • Podcast 4 – Making friends with fear

    Topic – Important points in the whole Text: Litany against fear from the book Dune “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will…

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  • All the rage

    All the rage

    we train on controlled environment for safety and to gain self control. Achieving higher levels of self control comes from destabilizing from inside so we unravel the ability to ride the wave of rage both up and DOWN. We all have things that bug us, that annoy us, that bring the rage in us. Use…

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  • Hard contact

    Hard contact

    There is a buffer between real violence and training and there has to be one to allow progress both mental and physical. Many martial arts today rely on padded surfaces and body padding. This allows for higher throws in practice and greater force exerted in contact in striking and impact. There is however also negative…

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  • An inclusive take on everyday training

    Time is the true commodity. Here are eight drills that hide within daily actions to sharpen and hone the movement ability of us all. 1.Slowly increase the distance you take to throw the trash into the trash bin (Be extra careful with weird shaped objects, they fly differently) 2. Walk up the stairs at night…

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  • Podcast 3 – What is best in life

    Topics – What is important? Taken from the movie Conan the barbarian:  Question to Conan: What is best in life?   Answered later by King Osric: There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison,and all that is left is…

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  • Ice is a healer – a month of cold immersion

    The only true commodity you have in your life is your time. One of the best and easiest ways to protect and enhance your time on earth is to go towards the cold with open arms and a bare chest. In one month, One can Increase their control of themselves Develop a healthier body and…

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  • Dr Seuss rolling

    Dr Seuss rolling

    The mundane is the godly with a bit or seasoning and creativity. Rolling. A simple task that can extend us exponentially with the right frame of mind. Will you do it with a friend? Will you do it stick in hand? Will you do it with no eyes? Will you do it legs entwined? Will…

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  • Podcast 2 – Learning from other branches of movement

    Topics –using the theme of healing from an injury or encounter shock Learning from other fields of study: Gymnastics, coordination and force, understanding leverage Climbing – strength and structure awareness in hanging and moving,economy of motion Dance – balance, lightness on feet, coordination, reading people and tempo Circus – juggling, rope walking, riding on animals…

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