Ivaylo Denichin - Martial arts & Fights sports

26/10/2022

26/10/2022

26/10/2022

19/10/2022

Warm body - cold heart: When you get ready for action you want your body to get warm, but don’t let your mind get hot with emotion. As your body temperature rises, make sure the heart and mind stay cold and calculating. It’s natural to get mentally excited and passionate as the action gets closer, but just as you solve mathematical puzzles best in a state of mental calm, so too with jiu jitsu puzzles. The difference is that in mathematics your body doesn’t have to do anything so there is no requirement to get it ready for action - in Jiu jitsu there is - so you’ll need to get your temperature rising - just try to keep it from the neck down

12/09/2022

What is a teacher? Is it not to BECOME THE TEACHING?

Some expect a teacher to ‘tell them how’, to ‘lead’ them, to ‘point the way’ but such things cannot bring forth the truth they truly should look for when they ask ‘teach me’…

Only the DOING teaches. Only in BEING one can attempt to fulfill the teachers role.
Teaching is not in ‘knowing’ as most believe it to be, it is in the much wider enriching experience of DOING it.

The world is full of knowledge yet empty of doers.

Looking for a teaching and a teacher has little to do with looking for a friend, for gratification, fun, assurance, acknowledgment, emotional support and smiles. All these can be present or not, the teaching is not dependent on these and at times stand in opposition to it. As a culture we’re confused and lost such roles. We look for the same attributes in all of our relationships and that centers around empty things, god forbid someone should rock the boat or damage our gentle souls with a wrong word, we’ve surrounded ourselves with cotton people, cotton processes and cotton things.

Hence, when looking for a teacher, one must first be mature, achieve some base from which one can study. Without it, too much is placed in the wrong spots when one will try to truly study, practice and transform.
The teacher must work in collaboration with PARTS of you yet against parts of you as well. The whole journey depends on that ratio.

Let us be frank, most will not recognize an excellent cup of coffee or a rare wine in a blind test, what makes us think we can recognize a real teacher when we meet one?
Such recognition is developed with effort, struggle, hard earned experience, it is rare. People go looking for teacher recommendations on comment sections and forums, this speaks volumes on our approach.

It has been my great honor and pleasure to teach most of my life now, through my practice, without feeling the need to be perfect, ‘correct’, ‘all knowing’, ‘finished product’ or other delusions.

I view teaching as part of my practice and my practice as part of my teaching. For me one cannot exist without the other.

10/09/2022

Be ready with both mind and body: When you come out to engage with an opponent there are a thousand possibilities for both of you. You have two modes of defense. The first is mental - this is AWARENESS. If you are mentally aware of dangers BEFORE their onset, defense is always easier. The second is physical - this is your stance. A good stance covers the most likely attack options an opponent has whilst facilitating your own attacks. Weaknesses in stance always make your opponents job easier and your job more difficult. When you go out there - be mentally aware of dangers and physically set in a strong stance that enables you to confront and overcome those dangers and you’ll always a tough opponent for anyone.

01/08/2022

Тао - Школа за Движение
Tonkov Boyan
Milena Yordanova

01/08/2022

Bjj training with Tonkov Boyan

01/08/2022

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