Re-Awakening The Code Of The Warrior
We Still Have Not Shaken Our Evolutionary Heritage (& It Won’t Be Happening Anytime Soon!) Why do so many men, especially young men (18-24) hook into the extreme reality based and competitively based martial art schools? Even though, most will never find themselves in a position to use what they have been taught in saving their lives outside of the Dojo? The answer I believe is evolution. Read More Read More
Neurosurgeon Speaks Out On Crazy Monkey!
As a Neurosurgeon I treat people who have sustained head and spinal injuries. I am particularly concerned about activities that can put someone at risk for either of these injuries to occur. It is for this reason that I have personally chosen Crazy Monkey Defence for my own fitness and self-defence program. As the name suggests, Rodney has designed a martial art program that has at its centre the goal of defence, not aggression and attack. The... Read More
You Don’t Really Know Someone Until You Fight Them (Part 2)
In part 1 of my article ‘You Don’t Really Know Someone Until You Fight Them’, I ended that article by writing, “There is another way to train functional, dynamic martial arts other than an incessant focus on beating the next guy. This other way allows people on the mat the opportunity to develop themselves, while they build up those around them. It is about creating a brotherhood.” In this this article part 2, I would like to explore... Read More
You Don’t Really Know Someone Until You Fight Them (Part 1)
In my article ‘The Expressive Body In Martial Arts’ I wrote about the embodied nature of movement, and how we express that movement in martial arts can be a window into our unconscious. In subsequent comments to that article a few of my readers equated that article to the comment from Seraph, in the Movie, The Matrix Reloaded, “…you don’t really know someone until you fight them.” In this two part article I would like to explore... Read More
8 Ways To Ruin A Perfectly Good ALL OUT Sparring Game
Clarification to this article: Based on some comments to this article I need to make it clear on what I exactly mean here when I am talking about ‘sparring’. In this article I am not talking about practice sparring or playing tag, but rather full out sparring to knockout. I believe in this context my points are ALL valid and relevant to not only surviving such a match, but equally in using that knowledge gained for the real deal when... Read More
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