From the outside looking into the martial arts world, training is about sharpening the tools you need for the purpose of self defence. For example, your fist and palms for punching, your feet and knees for kicking, grabs, locks and
Is this good or bad?
Burning crop residues is a farming practice that has been done for generations. Some think that the practice help kill pests related to the crop. The ashes from the residues are rich in potassium and calcium; this adds value to
Asking the right question
Instead of trying to find a way to produce a car radiotelephone, Marty, a young engineer at Motorola, ask himself “Why do we have to call a place when we want to talk to a person?” That question led to
Walking away as an option
Of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, fleeing is best (三十六計，走為上計)…old Chinese saying. More of the other 35 available on wiki Self-defence is not like combat sport, you cannot choose your opponent, the number of opponents, the environment, type of clothing / shoes
Experiences can work for or against you
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‘Cheep-cheep’ trigger
TURKEY mothers are good mothers. They are loving, watchful and protective. They spend much of their time tending, warming, cleaning and huddling their young beneath them. But there is something odd about how they identify their chicks – they go
Beginner’s challenge (adult kung fu)
If you ask the kids what is lhbf martialgym, you will get a different answer than that from an adult participating in the program. Those that participate in the martialgym for 55+ will experience something quite different as well. The
Five years later
I started this blog March 21st 2011. It has been almost once per week for five years, more than 250 articles later. In theory, everything that needs to be said have already been said (or hinted). During this time, we
What is this key for?
Sometimes we can be holding the key to success without realizing it. I teach the whole class the same way but how much you can absorb and whether it is even anything close to what I intend is yet to
How to train the form(s)?
A lot of people imitate moves within a traditional form and practice that over and over again for many years but when they look back, they wonder why they have not been improving much for a while. Repetition yield results