When it comes to a streetfight situation and you need self defense techniques against a threat, which would you choose to use: your fist or your elbow?

Let’s assume your brain can process the incredible amount of sensory information rocketing your way as well as govern the enormous fear response wracking your biology at that second, and allow you enough time to decide which is better.
It’s easy isn’t it? We’ve all seen it a hundred times in movies and on T.V… Bring out the old, reliable fist and swing round …

When people think about martial arts training or sports training for athletes, the images that come to mind are those of punishing schedules, sweating bodies, reddened limbs and being out of breath. Yes, of course all this is true because physical improvement and athletic mastery, at the highest levels, takes enormous hard work, discipline and sustained effort.

How many people though contemplate the mental side of training? Few people realise the power the mind has over how much we train as well as how often and how successful we can be …