“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 […]
Martial Arts Techniques
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One of the most important techniques in stand up fighting is “Distance Control“ and “Body Positioning Techniques” with proper footwork.
Combine this “Antenna Arms” and “Body Positioning Techniques” with “Proper Footwork” together. What I’ve talked about In this series so far are, In street situations, 1, You are not wearing gloves 2, No weight divisions 3, Your opponent is not necessarily only one And this is the final part of […]
“If you get better with this technique, you can see and react when getting attacked with 180º of your sight.“ It often happens in street self defence situations which you have to go against multiple opponents. There are a lot of different strategies for this situation too, but the first […]
“In the old days, they developed “How to beat bigger and stronger opponent”, but in these days, this kind of concepts and techniques are lost in modern martial arts because it has became too much sports orientated.” In my last blog, I was talking about “You are not wearing gloves” in […]
“In martial arts techniques, knuckles are not the only weapon you got.” The striking technique you will learn at the MMA ITO DOJO might be similar to Boxing or Muay Thai, but slightly different from them. Of course you can use it for Boxing and Muay Thai fights, but the […]
“If we approach our automatic function through controlled breathing and combine it with visualisations, we can make our reflexes and reactions faster.” It’s important to be able to move fast in a fight but it is not only how fast our body can move. It’s probably more important to have […]
“Don’t focus on the result of moving faster. Focus on the process, so you are moving faster naturally. That way, we can still move faster even when we get older.“ Being able to move fast is important in martial arts but in most cases, people try to move fast by […]
“There are so many different stages of training in martial arts, and we improve different aspects in each stage.“
You will understand more about Submission Arts Wrestling, and what SAW students should aim for If you watch the video!!