Archive for the ‘Teaching Movement Skills for Sports and Martial Arts’ Category

See errors of kicking in self-defense and a lethal effect of kicking against knife attack in my recently posted Self-Defense Tip #129 — Kicks vs. Knife Attacks. Watch and learn from a real-life video.


At the end of my post High Kicks with Tactically Sound Setups, I asked readers who know drills for different but still tactically sound setups of kicks, to post descriptions of those drills in comments to the post. Some did, and you may read their comments at High Kicks with Tactically Sound Setups.


Kicking in a no-holds-barred fight is risky, the higher the kicks, the riskier. From the previous article, Where from Are the High Roundhouse Kicks in Karate, you know how typical applications of kicks in Okinawan te removed risk from kicking. But how about other, more popular, punch-and-kick martial arts and sports? You know, all those […]


Do you do martial arts or combat sports? Do you have an answer to the eternal question: What is the best fighting art? If you do, read my new self-defense tip and post your answer as a comment to it at real-self-defense.com/self-defense-tip-124-what-is-the-best-fighting-art/


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Can you tell a well-schooled sports instructor or a martial arts instructor from an unschooled one? Then watch the video in my latest article and point out the single teaching error that keeps a student practice a simple grappling throw for over ten minutes and still not get it–even though his instructor shows him the […]


Power High Kicks With No Warm-Up! DVD trailer Power High Kicks With No Warm-Up! DVD is now available as a pay-per-view streaming video for $39.95 ($10.00 less than the DVD). You may view it from anywhere, for an unlimited number of times. The first and the second chapters of Power High Kicks With No Warm-Up! […]


Experiments done on athletes long ago (Nawrocka 1967) determined the optimal sequence for teaching a new sports technique: 1. Name the technique and give a brief description, including the key whys (yes, before a demonstration). 2. Demonstrate the whole technique at full speed. 3. Ask the athlete to give a verbal description of the technique. […]


Apart from the internal focus in this demo, I also don’t like the short grip–which is great for twirling but not for power with accuracy at a long distance.


Squat jump is both an exercise for improving jumping ability and a test of it. You can see it used as a test in a contest between a dancer and a weightlifter in the video posted at stadion.com/confidence-and-jumping-ability-dancer-vs-weightlifter/ After viewing the video answer this question: What instructions would you give the dancer so that she […]