| Most forms of martial arts to do some form of Kia, and almost 100% of the time it has the same use "to develop power" but that's only a part of what the Kiai is all about. In this episode I will give you five reasons to Kiai some are more obvious than others. | |
| Today's tip is about techniques that we all doing martial arts but have a limited effectiveness. I'm using a sidekick as an example and talking about when, where, how to use it and when not to use it, as well as the shortfalls the technique has. But this also applies to other techniques that I don't discuss. As with many of my tips these are things that work for me and you may not agree with but I hope that you do agree with the principles that I'm trying to get across | |
When punching in space, if you're not moving there is no effective way to deliver power any power in the punch. It gets delivered both ways into the target and as recoil. Obviously when punching there needs to be some method of delivering power, if we have hold of the ground we can deliver power, if we move forward we can deliver the same amount power plus more by sheer momentum.
In this episode of tips and tricks I discuss the benefit of moving when striking, as in the example above the benefit of moving forward while striking is adding your body weight momentum to the punch, this doesn't have to be a huge lunge forward it can be done in millimetres.
Delivering punches or strikes from a static stands has to be generated from the feet up. Many people only jab using their arm, and to me they resemble one of those punching puppets because that's about all the power they produce. |
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I want to continue to this discussion I want your input as competitors and fighters on your view, you can record something not being on the pod cast or certainly send me an e-mail with your comments and your view. In today's podcast I'm going to look at a rather large subject, many people believe that stretching the rules is a good thing and just as many believe it is basically cheating. Today I'm going to go into this a little bit more deeply and give you something to think about. Things like: "are you using the rules to the maximum benefit", "if someone deliberately does a foul and then is happy to take a penalty point is this cheating?", "Should you win at all costs or play fairly", "if the rules don't cover a certain situation such as striking at the guard is this cheating?", "His sledging somebody during a fight cheating, beneficial or just plain bad sportsmanship". |
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I have covered this in some other tips but I thought it was time to put it in its own category. Many fighters tried to knock out with but I feel that this is a bit self-defeating. By doing speed techniques of your front hand it is much more conducive to the posture your body is set in. Kicking off the front foot is something that many fighters like to do and they try to make it a power technique, again and we should be adjusting these techniques for speed and not power. I also recap on the difference between speed which produces the impact and power which produces force and push. |
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| Today I'm giving you a quick tip on how to speed up the jab or more to the point on how to hide the jab to make it more effective. | |
| Simple techniques like Roundhouse kick followed by a head punch is what most martial artist do on a regular basis. But like many techniques that we do it can be tidied up and made much more effective. Simple changes to form and hand positioning can make all the difference. In this tip I'm doing just that, a simple way to speed up the Roundhouse kick and an even simpler way to hide the following punch. I hope you enjoy and find it informative | |
Most competitors really don't understand how difficult the job of refereeing martial arts tournament is, today I'm giving a few tips and our little rant about refereeing. But the good stuff and the bad stuff. If you are competing in martial arts tournament, you really should listen to this tip because I also give some advice on how to deal with the highest an unfair refereeing. |
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| As martial artist we need to learn control, a part of control is learning when to be aggressive and not to be aggressive, learning to control anger and use anger and when to be calm. So today I talk about how to switch this on and off the both in sparring and competition fighting as well as in kata |
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| I think that just about all students want to do some fancy technique that they had seen on television or a movie, it is something that we all inspire to do. You don't have to be a black belt to perform some of these techniques, but there are some good and bad points about them, especially you want to use these in tournaments. Today's tip is about using the positives and negatives of these forms of techniques. | |
| As martial artist we all want to be flexible for many different reasons. I'm guessing the main reason would be so we can kick people in the head. But this isn't the only reason, preventing injury would be the most important thing for many students. So today is about a few tips and thoughts on getting flexible. I hope it helps. |
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| I think everybody wants the ability to do a fancy techniques, and a big part of that is there so fun and cool to do. Whether it be a basic form of fancy techniques such as the spinning back kick or something a little different such as a double spinning hook kick and the like. The problem is they are slow to perform and fraught with danger. A good example of this is using a spinning or kick in a demonstration to break aboard, it looks so cool but the board is static and doesn't move. Using the same technique against a opponent is a different story. The kick has to be performed with perfect timing in the perfect situation to make work because when most people perform these kicks they're so easy to see it coming. This tip is on how we can speed these techniques up. So instead of using these just as a following up technique, we may be able to develop them as an attacking technique. |
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| I often say that Black belt can set a poor example when it comes to teaching lower grade students a safe way to fight in competition. It is not on purpose, but by accident with their own personal form. The problem is when people get proficient at technique, timing and strategy . They tend to forget about basics. But beginners need basics and they need to copy off senior instructors that demonstrate good basics in their everyday techniques and sparring applications. |