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Six Key Strategies Every Martial Artist Should Know (But Most Don’t)

by Coach Bruce Pahl October 26, 2009 Combative Sports

This article is an overview of the Free eBook entitled Six Key Strategies Every Martial Artist Should Know (But Most Don’t) that I recently wrote on how a martial artist can greatly improve his or her performance in any martial arts style or method by adding these techniques and focusing their training around these six key strategies. The six [...]

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Unleash The Power Of Heavy Kettlebell Training

by Mike Mahler October 8, 2009 Kettlebell Training

Many people believe light to moderate kettlebell training is ideal, 53lb kettlebells for men and 26lb kettlebells for women. This line of thinking is a great way to miss out on the benefits of heavy kettlebell training. For example, 53lb kettlebells are not challenging to me at all and if I based my training on [...]

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The Truth In Combat

by Coach Bruce Pahl September 24, 2009 MMA/Mixed Martial Arts

The Truth in Combat is a martial philosophy and concept. This truth mindset is crucial because most people only think about their personal reality and experience and not truth. The word reality is being used all the time now in martial arts and combat but most people only have a partial understanding or a perception [...]

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MMA is not REAL Combat

by Coach Bruce Pahl August 21, 2009 Reality-Based Martial Arts

First off, all martial arts have something good to offer, but not all martial arts styles offer real life practical defensive skills. What we are looking for here is, The Truth In Combat. What I mean by this is what skills are necessary and will enable you to survive and be victorious in a REAL [...]

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Achieving Martial Synthesis

by Grant Bacon August 11, 2009 Combative Sports

Mixing of the martial arts, and “Mixed Martial Arts”, as a fighting style in and of itself is all the rage right now.  Hardly anyone wants to train in a single art anymore and even fewer want to train in any singular “traditional” martial style. The excitement and brutality offered for consumer/viewer consumption, on a [...]

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Practical Self Defense

by Coach Bruce Pahl August 6, 2009 Reality-Based Martial Arts

I titled this article practical self defense or self protection because there is such a thing as impractical self defense. By this I mean things or techniques that won’t work in the street. 1. Punching someone with your fist to the frontal or side portion of the skull. The human fist was not made to hit a round [...]

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