For us Attitude is “Everything.” Inspired by Mr. Hancock’s Kenposcope that states Attitude if 50% of our training focus and that it is first, we so valued the concept that we named our school- “Attitude First!” Through the years, we have found the focus of “Putting our Attitudes First” to be the key to […]
The final aspect of our focus on controls in a situation is the attacker. We address that in the physical process of what is easiest for us. First ourselves, our dimensions and then ours in relation to the environment, the attack and eventually the attacker. However, with consideration to physical ranges of being at; out […]
The primary focus of most Martial Arts training is in defending a specific attack. It makes sense that this would happen. We figure the attack is the problem so that is what we need to solve. However as we become more experienced, we start to recognize that in most cases lots of other things could […]
We realize to be in control of Dimensions as a whole is an extremely vast concept. The concept of Dimensions ranges from physical; Height, Width and Depth -to spatial; Magnitude, Size, Time -to the essence or level of existence or consciousness. Let’s refer a little back to Day 13 and Controlling Yourself. If we can […]
In any given situation the more that we can control the aspects of the situation, the more favorable the outcome would be to our advantage. I realize this seems fairly obvious but so often in a frantic situation, we lose sight of this. Now we state control “Yourself” because our youth tend to identify […]
When you think of the Martial Arts and the idea that this is the “Art of the Warrior.” You don’t necessarily think of the term Compassion. However, as Mr. Hancock reminds us often, we train so we can “Be kind because we choose to be, not because we are forced to be.” Compassion is showing […]
For me this is one of my most influential motivational qualities. I am fully captivated when I am around someone who is fully committed to a belief, activity, hobby, etc. I have to monitor myself often not to get too enthusiastic when I come across someone who is strongly committed to something. I recently read […]
Confidence is an interesting state of mind. Again, it is this awareness or feeling of self-assurance about one’s own abilities or qualities. Ironically, I have found that for me with my teaching, I don’t really instill confidence in people. I believe the student and I actually work together to reconnect them back to what I […]
Continued from yesterdays Challenge- “Better Bad Guy” Handbook Four Levels of the RelationshipThe “Better Bad Guy” is a representation of your training partner and the relationship you build with that partner.In the Handbook (forthcoming) we want each partner to with an understand the relationships and the each have an active role in the relationship.Here’s a […]
This is a copy from a publication that we did in a previous Gathering. I felt it might be helpful as we look at motivations to share before we dive in deep! The “Better Bad Guy Handbook!”This idea sort of started as a joke and the more we made fun of it, the more it […]
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