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This blog is to record my many training and teaching experiences in the martial arts. I run my own Can-ryu Jiu-jitsu dojo, but I also do extra curricular training in other martial arts to keep my skills sharp and to add to my knowledge of the arts. M
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Increasing Your Cardio Workout When Skipping
When you start skipping as a cardio workout, at first even a few short minutes can seem hard to do. But then as you become more coordinated and your fitness improves, you can go for longer without fe...
How to Do Shrimping Drills and Why
Shrimping was originally introduced in Japan where it was known as "ebi aruki" or in English, shrimp walking. Judo and Jiu-jitsu schools use it to develop the lateral hip movement that is used to esc...
Is 500 Squats Too Many?
It isn't according to my MMA coach. Last night, Mark had me do an extensive leg workout including: 500 squats, 5 minutes of stepping up and down from the ring, 5 minutes of shrimp walking, 5 minutes ...
How to Use a Speed Bag Properly
Before I started using the speed bag, I didn't really get what it was for. Since I started doing more boxing training, I've discovered that it's a fascinating little piece of equipment with a variety...
M.I.C.E - The New Injury Acronym
Many of you know that I've been coping with a pulled hip flexor for the past couple of weeks. My MMA coach didn't believe that I would do what was necessary to recover from my injury. He said, "Figh...
Running is Better than No Running
Yesterday, I bought an expensive new pair of running shoes. My MMA coach had told me that I would need to add running to my regular workout pattern and that he would eventually want me to run with a ...
Tip: Don't Overstretch Before a Seminar
Tomorrow, I'm heading to Victoria to attend a 4-hour seminar with Eddie Bravo. In preparation for this event, I did some extra stretching yesterday, focusing on my groin. Some of Eddie's classic mov...
30-Second Blitz Conditioning
My coach gave me quite a work-out last night. After warming up, he had me and my training partner Gina doing 30-second blitz training.As far as conditioning goes, this is one of the training styles I...
Yoga DVDs I Use to Balance Out My Martial Arts Training
As discussed in a previous post, Yoga and the Martial Arts, yoga is a great tool for enhancing one's martial arts training. But people often ask me how I find the motivation to wake up at 6:25 to do ...
Medicine Ball Exercises: Standing Abdominal Drop
We like to use medicine ball exercises in our dojo for strength work-outs. One of my favourites is the standing abdominal drop featured in the video above (I'm the one on the floor.) This exerc...
Fighting Fatigued
This picture represents my point of view while sparring my students last night. Never had I been punched so many times in the face by them. Five times I took hits in the face. This is completely un...
Skipping and Ass Whipping
After my last posting, "Skipping: the Ultimate Cardio Workout" I went and found footage of Floyd Mayweather Jr. doing his jump rope routine. Holy crap! You can't even see the rope, he moves so fast!...
Skipping: the Ultimate Cardio Work-out
I've always used skipping as my main form of cardio training. Not only does it develop your coordination in addition to your cardio (especially if you do it like this guy does), but it's just more fu...
My Most Recent Grocery List of MMA Conditioning Exercises
At the end of my past blog post, Stepping It Up: Conditioning for MMA, I wondered whether my coach was serious about the conditioning sessions being typically much harder than the one I had just endur...
Recovery Time and Its Importance in Conditioning
Last week, I started doing some killer conditioning work-outs with my MMA coach. At the time they seemed brutal and inhuman, but I realized that if I stuck it out, it would get easier. I was amazed ...
Stepping It Up: Conditioning for MMA
There is no God. There is only my MMA coach. And he’s definitely NOT benevolent. Last night I headed out to the dojo to train with Mark, my MMA coach. I thought maybe that since I was still sore ...
Know Your Limits, Train Within Them
Being enthusiastic about your martial arts training can be a good thing… as long as it doesn't push you farther than you're ready for. When you push your limits, you run the risk of physical and me...