Training Knife for the Credit Crunch!
How to make cheap and resistant training knives …or why you shouldn’t spend your hard earned cash on some overpriced training knife made in ‘Shmuckistan’ Everyone struggles with purchase of training equipment for reality based self defence training. Many students of the martials and self defence cannot afford to buy top of the range training [...]
The Unconscious Power Of Assumed Constraints
October 13, 2009 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
Assumed constraints – the unconscious power inside you! Combat Training Principles — Secrets For Staying Alive When “Rules” Don’t Apply People often ask me for the best way to “protect” them in some imagined criminal assault. They want me to respond by giving some perfect technique that handles their particular imagined scenario. They’re often disappointed [...]
What-If Monkeys Guide By Marc MacYoung
October 5, 2009 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
What-If-Monkeys (a field guide to problem people in dojos/seminars/training) I really like Marc MacYoung’s website at http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com and I have followed it for years as it is exactly as it says on the tin and a reservoir of great information. I read this web page tonight and I have enclosed a snippet here – you [...]
Generating Maximum Power
October 3, 2009 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
Generating Maximum Power I remember for much of my youth my martial arts training revolved around speed. I was always trying to punch and kick faster. Often you were judged on how many strikes you could deliver in a given amount of time. We’ve previously already discussed the importance of striking a specific target on [...]
Target Focused Training London Session Report
October 2, 2009 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
Stefano Agostini from Italy attended the recent London Live Target-Focus Training session and just sent in this comment: “First, I am a professional instructor of martial arts and I have 40 years experience in martial arts, combat sports, and self-defense methods. “In my opinion, 99% of the self-defense methods around are just a bunch of [...]
The Ultimate Weapon
September 28, 2009 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
Combat Training Principles Secrets For Staying Alive When ‘Rules’ Don’t Apply The Ultimate Weapon There is one weapon that trumps all others, if not directly then at least potentially. What is it, you ask, and where can you get your hands on one? Well, the good news is you already own one. But whether or [...]
