Martial Arts for the 21st Century

January 2010 Blog Posts (2)

1,000 One Day Later

The 1st day after doing 1,000 pushups, crunches and squats is, for me, always a little slow. The pain is starting to set in, but I know tomorrow it will be worse. Then it gets better.

A school in Florida, run by Master Turnbull, accepted my 1,000 challenge, and being martial artists they ramped it up a notch by adding in 1,000 punches to the pushups, squats and crunches. All day yesterday I was getting email updates on their progress. It… Continue

Added by Dave McNeill on January 2, 2010 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

New Year’s Resolution for All Martial Artists

Your Instructor owns and operates a school for you; yes you. If you walked up to the school next week for class and the doors were locked and a sign read “Sorry We Went Out of Business” what would you do? First you’d be mad, then you’d wonder why, and lastly you’d ask yourself “what am I going to do now?” I know these things because I’ve experienced them first hand. There is a fourth question that rarely gets asked. That is; “what could I have done or should I have done to help prevent… Continue

Added by Master Mikeal 'Bear' Smith on January 1, 2010 at 9:34am — No Comments