Progressive Violence The primary components of physical development are: Learning, Practicing, and Testing. All three components fall along a scale.…
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A question came in my mailbox this morning from one of the guys on the course and he wondered about Latihan Berpasangan and why I don’t really have that many. I went on at length so I thought I would pass it on and expand it even further here. There are a lot of reasons.
Read More…and other B.S. I hear people say that a self-defense system needs to be simple and needs to have only…
Read MoreFine Motor skills are definitely not used much in personal protection or self-defense, but they aren’t used much in martial arts either. Fine Motor skills involve the picking up of very fine and small objects, or writing, and drawing. Basically they are focused on finger to hand and eye coordination. And that’s about it….
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Continuing where we left off, basically with a no bullshit discussion of Jurus-jurus (meaning plural—Indonesian language does not pluralize with…
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It’s a spectrum of Movement and responses over time. Analytically combat is about dissecting time. And hopefully having the necessary…
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This is a quick survey on the study of jurus-jurus within pencak silat systems. I’d love to hear your thoughts…
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Part 1 Forms, kata, hyung, poomse, jurus, djurus.... whatever. I don't really care what you call them. They are basically…
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