I got three more things to energise and reduce our stresses easily and quickly. They are very simple and still don’t cost anything. “Head up, back straight, and posture up” A lot of research has been done about the relationship between stress and posture. If we put our head up, […]
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“When you feel like you have not much energy, or are stressed from something, you should try these three things, instead of relying on having coffee or energy drinks. These are very easy and don’t cost anything.” “Deep Breathing” Take ten deep breaths whenever you need to energise quickly or […]
When you coordinate the Tanden breathing with special body movements and visualisation together, you can deeply connect your body and mind. I’m explaining how these “TANDEN Breathing Exercises” help to make our reflex faster in the video.
“Generate power and speed towards different directions and different movements” My teacher, SAW founder Shihan Hidetaka Aso used to always tell us this. “Practical power and strength for fighting is not just strong towards only one unchanged direction like doing weights. You must be able to generate strong power […]
Self defence Workshop (MMA for street situations). This wasn’t really a serious seminar. It was part of the end of year fun event last year.
“If you wish to control your opponent, you must first control yourself” Musashi Miyamoto Have you been able to control your own mind and body? When you try to move your body, does it move how you want it to? When you want to make certain movements, is your body […]
“Your journey is not always straight and smooth. Sometimes you have to go through rough and hard roads, but you will grow bigger from going through them.“ The name of Japanese martial arts is usually finished with this word “Do” such as Judo, Kendo, and Aikido. And these martial arts […]
“If they don’t grow a strong base first, even if they grow big and high, they will break and fall down.” In Martial Arts, we often use an allegory with bamboo tree’s growing as our improvement. Some bamboo trees don’t grow much or not at all for the first four years. […]
“Tanden Breathing” helps to improve our mind (心Shin), technique (技Gi), and body (体Tai). Originally, martial arts incorporated many methods to maximise people’s mental and physical abilities to live out the days of violent changes, but it’s becoming too sports orientated, and is focused only on techniques to win competitions in […]