Divide releases into 3 steps to help beginners get started

There are a lot of different modes that you can do most martial arts exercises in.  They seem to be made to be played in different ways under various conditions.

How to move efficiently during a conflict

Here is an interesting video to watch.  I think it might be important to your martial research, not because I agree with every point.  In fact, I think the second fellow sounds like a paranoid schizo in much of his lecture. But there is something here.  Perhaps just gleanings.  Maybe important gleanings. Watch this and let me know what you get from it.



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Learning 1-2 karate kata could help you even if you're not a karate guy!

One of the things that can seem alien to a karate guy beginning in aikido or judo is the idea that each of the kata in judo and Tomiki aikido involves two people - tori (or nage) and uke.  All of the kata moves are actually done on an actual person's body.  There are no solo kata in judo or aikido.

Connections between Junokata, Koshiki, and Nanatsu!

You know what is really cool?  When you have both enough time in a body of work, and the opportunity to step back from it far enough that you can see the themes and motifs running through it.  Judo is like this.

My crazy names for Hirano's crazy exercises

Naming conventions for martial arts techniques and kata vary from art to art.  Some folks like the ultra-simple thing-1, thing-2 sort of ordinal naming system, while others like more descriptive names for things like the "arm-crushing cross-shaped armbar," from judo.