“All the techniques are connected together like a chain. This concept is exactly the same as our lives.” In sparring or in a fight, it’s important to keep applying techniques one after another every time you fail one, until you immobilise them and submit them, like drawing them into spider […]
Martial Arts Techniques
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“Good footworks make all your techniques faster, stronger, and more effective. Also, you can move to your opponent’s blind spot and can disappear from their sight.” Footwork is one of the most important techniques in stand up fighting. Because all the techniques are led by footwork. Like when you do, […]
It’s a highlight video from the SAW seminar at the Black Dragon Kai last Saturday. We focused on the SAW powerful “Achilles Leg Lock” in the seminar!!
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.
“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 […]