“When you make a mistake or fail one technique, you should think it’s a good opportunity for the next technique, because that mistake and failure becomes a good setup for the next technique. All the techniques are connected together like a chain.“ Toshi: All of my students from the Australian branch enjoyed […]
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“Everyone wins and loses sometimes. Defeat sometimes is worth as much as a good victory. As long as you don’t give up because you are getting tired or getting hurt or getting scared. I would be proud of you guys if you challenge and show your strong spirit.” Toshi: Sensei, […]
“I met a lot of interesting people through that too. There was Mr Yoshiaki Fujiwara (Catch Wrestler), Mr Satoru Sayama (Founder of Shooto), and Mr Akira Maeda (Founder of Rings) In UWF pro wrestling back in that time.” Toshi: I would like to talk about when Sensei was competing. I […]
People who are mentally strong now were not born with a strong mentality. They trained to get their strength. It’s already February now. How’s it going with everyone’s yearly goals? The research shows most people who made a new year resolution gave up and forget about their yearly goals in […]
“The real meaning of a grading is not showing off that you are awesome or showing off because you are a black belt. It’s for you to sharpen up your character by having short term goals and overcoming every obstacle, and also for motivation to go through a hard and […]
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. […]
“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 […]