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A Martial Artist is someone who adapts to any situation. This philosophy is not restricted to fighting or martial arts. It can be used in everyday life. We can use work as an example.

Hosting a training camp (called a Gasshuku in karate) can not only produce thousands of dollars of additional revenue each summer but can also generate a great deal of interest within your community (attracting new students to your dojo) while motivating and advancing the technical skills of your existing students - which, in turn, enhances retention.

carro Believe it or not, this is how a large majority of the so-called "successful" studio owners in this country operate. While their studios might appear to be successful on the outside, in reality they are living hand-to-mouth, because they bought into a myth of a lifestyle that never was: the Myth of The Successful Studio Owner.

Exercise gets your circulation going and floods your body with oxygen; this is why it is very important to do any long-term training outside (and one of the reasons I founded the long term martial arts training camps in Thailand and California). Are you spending more time in the gym on a treadmill killing your cells when you could be running outside at the park near the trees, by a lake or through a river?



Martial arts are fantastic for quickly burning calories off of your body. A person can easily burn between 350 and 500 calories from doing karate for 30 minutes. If you consider yourself a beginner that is simply looking to get into better shape, bagua and qigong are great to start out with. Tai chi can also be considered easy on your body, burning only 100 to 200 calories in every half an hour. They start out slow, concentrating on breathing and lean muscle mass. Stress is minimal on your joints.

partes Watch some MMA fights. You will increasingly see Mixed Martial Arts on television and watching fights is a great way to improve your techniques. You can observe new moves and their effects on an opponent. You can see counter-moves and get a general feeling for how a fight progresses.

So where does that leave the state of martial arts? Martial arts will always have it's niche, cult following. It's the nature of the beast, but that ONLY attracts a small percentage of people who are looking for that lifestyle. The vast majority of adult practitioners look to martial arts for self defense training. Adult martial arts will be another tool to help them live their lives better. Programs must focus on fitness and self defense to survive. In the next 5 years, if you're not in the self defense and fitness business and you continue to offer ONLY martial arts programs, you're going to be stuck and forgotten.

abc junk yard The first thing we need to think about is what is required of a mixed martial arts combatant. Well, basically three things, anaerobic stamina, muscular endurance, and flexibility. So, your workout should address these three concerns. Let's talk about each area in turn.

To end this 'sample' of my "secret system" I would like to ask you a question. How good do you want to be, and how far are you willing to go to be the best you can be?

If you can't travel - don't worry, you can also put these tips to use. Just immerse yourself online. Find Mexican speakers on the Internet, look for some native Mexican speakers in your city. Read this article and you'll surely find some ways to put these tips to use!