“Fake it till you become it” Those that have lower back pains, neck stiffness, tight shoulders often need to change their daily working postures to solve the culprit of their problems. Furthermore, postures affect how other people sees you and
Operating a restaurant
Anyone of you ever watch any of the “Kitchen Nightmares”, “Restaurant Makeover”, “Restaurant Impossible” or similar shows where a restaurant is failing and on the brink of bankruptcy? While the cooking and recipes can always be improved, the culprit of
Creativity
Have your mind ever drawn a blank when asked to create an art piece, an essay, a design or a routine. We often say that someone is ‘gifted’ when he/she can often come up with something totally unexpected and different.
Demolitions
Exercise I am sure that most of you must have seen a couple of demolitions. Watch the following videos, what did you get out of it that is useful to us? Any seemingly random thoughts that came to mind? Non-explosive
We all want answers
Some of you asked me why I don’t provide any ‘standard’ answers for the blog exercises even after class / discussion. Yes, I understand your need for answers but hear me out. My daughters get mad at me sometimes for
Self defense without punching and kicking
When someone throws a punch at you, I call it an actionable attack – the attacker is physically there and you can make a choice on how you respond. However, in the real world, attacks don’t always comes in ‘actionable’
Its heavy!
It’s heavy! (images from Google search ‘heavy load’) You never know what will come back from a casual search. 🙂 Anyways, I want you to observe and try to notice the physics behind some of the pictures. Most of these
Idiom – Mouth of a chicken
Chinese idiom – Rather be the mouth of chicken than the behind of a cow (寧為雞口，不為牛後) – Would you rather be the head of a small growth company or a middle manager of a large corporation? – Would you rather
Videos week via Pinterest
Tapping into all the online resources and technology will give us an advantage. Being “able to see (and understand)” is a necessary part of our sensory training. This week, I have been playing around with http://pinterest.com/martialgym/. I pinned some videos
Use of sound in martial arts
Humans respond to sound in different ways. It can also be a useful tool if you know how and why. In medieval movies, you often hear soldiers yelling out “Charge!” before charging towards their enemies. In Karate breaking demos, the