I share the special conversation I had in Japan with my Martial Arts teacher the Submission Arts Wrestling Founder Shihan Hidetaka Aso. We had talked about him, about the history of Submission Arts Wrestling, about Martial Arts, and about when I was training with him in Japan 30 years ago. […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
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“There are important stages of growth and development in all of our lives.” We have to sacrifice a lot of sweat and tears, time and effort to progress step by step, slowly on our journey. What happens when we try to take a shortcut, or rush to progress. People try […]
“It will be very sad and wasted if we never used this wonderful ability which only human beings have been gifted, so let’s use it effectively!! “ “The man who has no imagination has no wings.” Muhammad Ali Once we get better with this visualisation ability, it helps a lot in […]
“There has been an interesting experiment conducted in USA. They taught a group of people how to strengthen certain muscles, and also taught them how to visualise them, then made them do visualisations strongly everyday about doing those exercises but not doing it physically. After 3 months, they got an amazing result. “ […]
“I have been training and practicing Martial Arts everyday for more than 40 years, and I have realised I’ve obtained this strange sense after doing this visualisation exercise over and over in all my training and also through a lot of sparring and competitions.” Visualisation is very powerful technique to […]
“This kind of people are really cool to see, and I’m very pleased to see them.” I was talking about the first remarkable point for people who are improving constantly in my last blog. This time I’m going to talk about the second remarkable point, and that is, “When they […]
“If you see great people three days after you saw them, they would be even greater“ I sometimes see people who are improving every time I see them. That does not necessarily mean improvement of technique or physical strength, but they are improving as a human being. Each time I […]
“I found this is one of the best exercises to develop and build the Martial Arts body.” I think many people have seen big Japanese SUMO wrestlers do this special exercise movement when they are about to start a fight. It’s a sort of ritual movements in proper SUMO matches. […]
“長短一味” (Choutan Ichimi) “Merits and faults are two sides of the same coin” This word came from Samurai Warriors teachings. The Long sword is good for fighting outside with a long distance, but inside a house or in small rooms, or once your opponent comes in close distance, the merit […]
“Every meal we have is a good opportunity to improve our spirit, mind, and body.” What we eat today prepares ourselves for tomorrow. What we eat makes us feel different in our spirit and body. Firstly, body. Everyone knows what we eat determines our energy level. Either waking up full […]