Often when I’m teaching techniques, I’ll suggest them as problem solving devices. There usually is a ‘to-do’ list starting with not getting hit. Often technique training is done with a single step-through front punch, which is an unrealistic scenario. I happily stumbled across a video by my friend Marlon Wilson that addresses a problem I was teaching this week – stopping the second punch.
Remembering Professor Kimo
Kimo Ferreira was a force of nature, and a fountain of historical knowledge. It’s been a couple of years, but the void remains. I’ll continue to dig into the history, and to develop the art I was given. I’m still plugging away, hopefully making progress.
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Validation
It’s a little silly, but it just gives me the warm fuzzies and a little bit of validation to see a YouTube short of Bas Rutten doing a drill that I have been doing with my students for probably over 15 years. I have a couple of levels to this one, but here’s the first one.
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