Spinning Wheel Kick
Hey Guys, This kick is well worth learning. It is a lot of fun, and gives a great workout. Plus, it works very well in combination with a lot of other techniques. This technique isn’t terribly difficult, but there are a few common mistakes that are worth mentioning. The biggest mistake people make when learning [...]
360 Tornado Kick
The tornado kick has a few variations. The ones I’m working with here focus on making contact with the shin or instep of the foot, rather than using a crescent kicking application. In these versions the hip rotates over the bottom leg to generate more speed and power. A lot of people perform this [...]
The Spinning Hook Kick
Hey Guys, This is perhaps my favorite all time kick. I still love to practice it, and back in the day it served me well in fighting. It is one of the most beautiful and powerful kicks out there. But what most people don’t realize is just how versatile it can be when fighting. For [...]
Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners – Why and How to Meditate
Hey Guys, Mindfulness meditation is perhaps one of the most rewarding exercises out there for mental and physical health. And despite this fact, as mentioned in the video, mindfulness meditation is not something that should be undertaken with the consequences or results in mind. It is an act of reuniting with the present, and living [...]
How to Meditate – Energy Meditation for Beginners
Hey Guys, For those new to meditation, Qigong energy work is a useful tool in accumulating, increasing, and controlling one’s internal energy. Once developed, this energy can be used for health maintenance, internal healing, healing others, or to enhance martial arts techniques in a variety of ways, including increasing one’s speed and power, hardening the body [...]
The Truth About Getting Abs – How to Get Rid of Belly Fat
Hey Guys, There is still a great deal of misinformation out there about how to get ripped six pack abs, most of it propagated by men and women’s health magazines which make their money off of
Post-Workout Static Stretching (Wall Stretching)
Hey guys, There’s quite a bit of confusion about what kind of stretching ought to be done when. Generally speaking, performing static stretching only lightly prior to kicking followed by dynamic stretching will loosen you up without risk of pulling a muscle. Hard static stretching should be saved for your post-workout cool down stretch. Stretching while [...]
The Glorious Hook Kick…and Axe Kick
Ok, well, I’d be lying if I said these kicks were necessary for fitness kicking, but to leave them out would be a real disservice to those who want to kick kick kick. These are two of my favorite techniques, and they require more flexibility and strength than any of the other fundamental kicking techniques [...]
Crescent Kicking 101
Hey Guys, In this video we’re breaking down the crescent kick (s). Fortunately its a kick that doesn’t require much breaking down, because its basically swinging the leg up and around. Most people can perform this technique to some degree with very little training, which is what makes it such a great technique to use for [...]