“SAW standing techniques are the technique of handling those strikes and controlling them with grappling.” At a time when mixed martial arts had not yet been properly established, the SAW founder Shihan Hidetaka Aso created Submission Arts Wrestling with the desire to establish a grappling style that could be used […]
心”SPIRIT” 技”SKILL” 体”BODY”
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“It’s more important to be a respected person than just becoming a good fighter in SAW training. “ Submission Arts Wrestling is a Japanese martial art, so you have to embrace the Budo Spirit. The Budo Spirit comes from the spirit of bushido of the ancient samurai warriors. Before you can […]
One of the strengths of SAW is that it has a wide variety of leg locks in the system that you can learn in detail step by step.
“All SAW students must know the meaning of this term coined by Shihan Aso. 必技極 Hitsu Gi Kyoku” That means “Be sure to complete your technique”. When you are young and still just learning, or still competing, “Be sure to finish by your technique”. Don’t try to win by points, […]
“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 […]
“Making a Martial Arts body means making a healthy body for our life time.” The final topic of “How to improve our “SPIRIT” “SKILL” and “BODY” for all through our lives in Martial Arts” is “BODY” It includes everything about our body such as strength, power, speed, stamina, and even […]
The keys are “TANDEN (丹田) breath” and “Visualisation” Martial Arts techniques and moves should be all natural to our body.Minimise impact to our body, but maximise power from understanding the body mechanics and using momentum, leverage, and your opponent’s strength, your weight, and so on. That’s all same with striking […]
“SPIRIT” 心 We go through a lot of different experiences in our lives. Everyone should keep improving our mind and spiritual quality as we get older. We should be getting wiser and tougher, but if you don’t have a growth mindset, all those valuable experiences could be wasted. We should […]
The journey of Martial Arts should not be just about learning how to fight. Through training, we learn respect, discipline, manners, mind skills like controlling our emotions, how we should think about things, how to deal with issues that confront you, or even learning healthy diet, and good life style […]