If there was a way to sweep aside obstacles in your life, your hand to hand combat and your opponents on the tatami mat, would you like to hear about it? Yes?

Well there is a way of using the human mind and its creative faculty in such a way that you can tip the odds in your favour in pretty much any fighting competition or with any goal you are pursuing. It’s called creative visualization. It’s not magic or mumbo jumbo but a real and effective guidance system for the …

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 …