I’m so proud of the fact that I have no ego. It truly makes me the most humble person I’ve ever met. Regardless of whether we admit it or not, we all have an ego. It’s what we do with that ego and how we demonstrate it among our martial arts peers and students which […]
Your baby just came home from school all excited and begging you for the chance to take martial arts classes for kids. Your innocent little baby has a new hero: B.J. Penn. All of the sudden bloody images come flooding into your mind. Broken bones, ambulance rides, choke holds, and didn’t you once see some […]
There are several different kinds of cardio workouts that we have the ability to do in order to get the strongest exercise. These cardio workouts are necessary when seeking to lose any amount of weight and to tone up the muscles in the body. One of the best kinds of cardio exercise is kickboxing. This […]
Reasons for fear you dread facing your opponent – a bigger, tougher, stronger. and more accomplished opponent you are afraid of getting hurt – a past injury. the pain associated with it, and the difficult recovery period that you had to go through can create the fear that you may get hurt again you fear […]
If your emotions are not in sync with the rest of your mental preparation, then you may not be as successful in effectively applying your game plan. In this chapter, we are going to study two critical emotions-anger and fear-that often negatively impact a grappler’s or combats athlete’s performance, and we’ll look for ways to […]
Being able to retrieve information from the mind quickly during a game is of utmost importance for a grappler or combat athlete. This is the information that you developed during training and preparation, such as your game plan strategies and tactics moves and grappling or combat athletics techniques that you want to use visual imagery […]
Weight lifting was one of the key points of Bruce Lee’s workout methods. As is well known, Bruce had a very strong urge to be as physically fit as possible. He was always working out some body part or doing cardio work by running, skipping rope or riding an exercise bike. He was really way […]
The idea for the “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” came about in 1970. Bruce Lee had injured his back and was instructed by doctors to refrain from any exercise and lay on his back for six months so he could recover. I could only imagine how Bruce must have hated this in light of his […]
Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37KOs) is confident that he will be able to win against Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (39, 25KOs) in their fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas on September 19. Marquez is bigger and stronger as he put on more weight and working on his technique. He definitely hits harder now than […]
We have all heard the adage “practice makes perfect.” This applies to mental skills training too. But the unique thing about training the mind is that, over a period of time the mind gets conditioned to think along particular lines, and mental preparation comes to you almost by rote, automatically without having to consciously put […]
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