Author Archives: Martin Morrison

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Improve your Co-ordination

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Improve your Co-ordination: Better Double Nunchaku

Are you one of those people that are great at doing nunchaku manoeuvres with one hand but, as soon as the nunchaku is in the other hand, things slow down? Do you find that everything is going well until you need to do swaps or catches and then you are not so cool? Now you can improve your co-ordination. Anybody can improve their performance, their fluidity and their catches by training to become more ambidextrous – by creating ‘two right hands’. Continue Reading →

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Three section staff

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Nunchaku’s Distant Cousin

The three section staff started life in China where it was known as the sanjiegun in Mandarin, ‘gun’ meaning staff.  Once it found its way to Okinawa, it became known as the sansetsukon, and they even created a couple of training kata, ‘sansetsukon dai ichi’ and ‘sansetsukon dai ni’. Like nunchaku, the three section staff is part of the ‘bo’ or staff family, and is a jointed weapon. It can, therefore, be seen as a distant relative of nunchaku. Continue Reading →

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Why Train In Martial Arts?

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When it comes to martial arts there are many paths – empty hand or with weapons, Chinese (Kung Fu), Japanese (Karate, JiuJitsu), hard styles, soft styles – and even then there are different strands within disciplines.

Unfortunately practitioners of the different disciplines and strands will sometimes dismiss each others’ training and I always think this is a real shame.

Firstly, because no one style IS the complete system of anything except itself as an art form. To be the greatest fighter, one needs to train across many disciplines covering the four main fighting distances – kicking range (Thai boxing, Tae Kwon Do, Karate for example), punching range (boxing), trapping range or grab the opponent by the scruff of the neck range (Wing Chun or JiuJutsu for example), and grappling range (JiuJitsu for example). Continue Reading →

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Timing and The Three Elements!

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Creating Time

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This tutorial looks at how to create time by understanding ‘timing and the three elements’. The video below demonstrates how moving creates more time for us to catch the nunchaku mid-air than if we were to remain static. If we remain static and the nunchaku are moving our hands have to work harder to get to where they should be to make the catch. If we are prepared to move our bodies in time with the movement of the nunchaku then once the nunchaku are airborne we actually have more time to make the catch. Can you imagine a fielder on a cricket field who couldn’t run? He wouldn’t make many catches.

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What’s Yin-Yang?

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Origins

The origins of Yin-Yang go back almost 5000 years when people observed that by day the sun would shine and farmers would work on the land, and by night, the sun would seemingly disappear and everyone would sleep. Yin was equated with day time, light, heat and activity. Yang was equated to night time, cold and passivity. Continue Reading →

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Self-Motivation! How to get charged up!

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human-mindAlready Primed

Did you know we are already primed for self-motivation? Within the first 9-15 months of life most human beings are already walking tall – many running all over the place. We learn to speak and understand at least one language within the first four years of life, and we figure out ways to get lots of things that we want. Let’s face it; humankind is quite a demanding species and has no issues with motivation. The question that arises is not whether or not we can be bothered, but what we can be bothered to do. Continue Reading →

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How good is the ‘Insanity’ workout?

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It seems that everywhere I look at the moment, I keep coming across the Insanity workout. Whether it is being hailed as the next best thing on someone’s Facebook status update, or someone I train with is telling me they are getting great results from it. I am probably one of the only people who haven’t seen the official advertisements for it as in my research on the subject I am told these are hard to miss. I guess I am too busy working out to spot the working out advertisements.

So just what exactly is Insanity, how does it work and why is it different from other workouts? Well, when I have researched this on the internet it has been pretty hard to come across anything that wasn’t advertorial in nature, selling the product rather than really reviewing it. The telltale signs were all there, telling the reader where to get the product, making sure readers avoid the pitfall of buying fake copies. One of the few reviews that seemed to critique the workout was pushing another cheaper alternative. I haven’t experienced the Insanity workout so I am not going to pretend to be an expert but this is what I found out. Continue Reading →

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