Fight Camp: Martial Arts Retreats

10/19/2018

This is such a critical aspect of martial arts training, and yet one that is so often neglected.

"Your kick sucks today? Perfect. It’s in exactly the stage it should be, given the circumstances it has grown under. You’re off balance on knees: perfect. You are starting to see your opponent’s weight shifts: perfect. You lost: perfect. You won: perfect. All of it."

We are doing a Muay Thai Mental Training Reading Group, together. On Facebook for everyone – you can join here – and on Patreon in live video conference call with my supporters – you can see our first session here. We’ve covered the first two chapters of the book The Inner Game of Tennis, an...

10/12/2018

Check out this incredible 3 credit course on Warrior Studies, complete with texts and analysis!

http://dtpr.lib.athabascau.ca/action/download.php?filename=mais/Jason-McCoy-2126851-Warrior%20Studies-A.pdf

10/11/2018

The Spartans, the Samurai, the Apache, we study ancient warrior cultures not to recreate the past, but to inform the present and to place our discipline in context. The carpenter's skill with a hammer must always come second to his knowledge of what must be done.

08/08/2018

'Epstein cited research showing that those who entered the topmost rung of their field tended to dabble across disciplines further into their teen years than those who topped out at a sub-elite level. Kids who played a range of sports for longer tended to develop “physical literacy,” Epstein explained, which meant they were quicker to pick up the skills of the sport they ultimately settled on quicker than peers with a narrower sporting background.'

Ido Portal teaches famous athletes how to use their bodies in entirely new ways. But is it all snake oil?

07/14/2018

Meditation: helping you transcend existential dread for 2600 years.

"That meditation would be a useful practice in an extremely stressful situation like being trapped in a cave is really no surprise. Buddhist meditation has been around for 2,600 years, since the Buddha began teaching it as tool for achieving clarity and peace of mind, and ultimately, liberation from suffering."

The boys’ coach lived in a Buddhist monastery for a decade and taught them to meditate in the cave.

07/12/2018

What is the place of "kata" in martial arts?

A trend toward toward targeted and realistic training methodologies for modern combat sports has many set against the ascetic, highly-choreographed forms of traditional martial arts. But let's be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

06/29/2018

Haha, these guys get it.

04/17/2018

Nothing here is exclusive to women. It's just ESPECIALLY TRUE for women.

04/13/2018

These guys kill it every time.