Can you stay calm and focused in the face of chaos and adversity? When your kids, your spouse, someone in your family, your coworker, or even your boss decides to push your buttons, agitate you, stress you out, or even flat-out attack you, can you stay calm and focused? How about all those demands on …
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Did you know that your posture can influence whether or not you become the target of a crime? Posture communicates physical condition, confidence, and awareness. And in my Aikido Class at the Texas Rock Gym, we’re always working on posture. It’s an essential part of the martial arts and an important part of self-defense. But …
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Flexibility is crucial in the Martial Arts, but it’s also an extremely important part of success outside the dojo. What does doing the splits have to do with being successful? Better yet, how can I take the flexibility that I learn in class and use it to become more successful in life? At the beginning …
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🏋️♂️ 🧘♀️ 🥷 🏃♂️ 🌟 Hey, fitness enthusiasts! Ever wondered if exercise is a must for a healthy life? While some centenarians may not have hit the gym, the benefits of regular exercise are hard to ignore. Join me on a journey exploring the significance of physical activity, backed by the wisdom of martial arts, …
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Discipline isn’t just about routines and rules, but a fundamental part of every action we take.When we compare ourselves to other people, it’s they’ve accomplished more because their more disciplined, but, let me challenge your beliefs for a second. What if, in the end, we all had the same amount of discipline. And that we’re …
Breathing is a huge part of being alive. Just think about it: the average person takes between 12 to 20 breaths per minute. For math purposes, let’s say 16. That’s 960 breaths an hour, 23, 040 breaths a day, 8,409,600 breaths a year. And if you live to 90, that’s 756,864,000 breaths. You’d think that …
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Holding the sword correctly will allow you to swing it effectively and efficiently. The first real Japanese sword, known as a katana was smithed around the year 700 AD. And since then has developed and transformed into what we know today and the Japanese Samurai Sword. Before we get started with this lesson, there …
This is the story of how I met my Aikido instructor, Kato Hiroshi. He wasn’t my first Aikido instructor, but he was my last. It was a fateful moment, in Japan and I was ready to give up on my dream, to learn Aikido. I was totally defeated, the wind knocked out of me, laying …
I’ve taken Aikido classes in Houston, Boston, San Francisco, Austin, San Antonio, Arlington Mexico and in Tokyo, I’ve seen many different styles and systems of weapons being taught. Essentially Aikido comes from three different arts, The Long and Short Sword, The Staff and Unarmed techniques; Kenjutsu, Jojutsu and Daitoryu Aikijuujutsu. In 1990, I trained Aikido …
It must have been around the year 2004, I decided to do an all day workshop on Kokyu-Ho (The way of the breath.) I did tons and tons of research about breathing, different breathing exercises and how the body is influenced by our breath. It was truly an enlightening experience and gave me a deeper …
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