Welcome back!This is a guest post from Oscar Del Ben. Oscar is the publisher of Freestyle Mind, one of the classiest personal development blogs on the web. In this article he talks about internal motivation in the martial arts and touches upon some of my favourite subjects, including fear and visualiztion. I hope you enjoy [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fear'
The Importance Of Internal Motivation In The Martial Arts
January 27th, 2010 · Comments · Personal Development
Tags: Development·Fear·FreestyleMind·Martial Success·Visualization
Effective Training Methods For Street Self Defense| Part 3
September 3rd, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
In this series of articles we have been talking about making our dojo training methods more realistic to better prepare us for the real thing. In the first article we discussed the need for different training methods and the relative failure of the traditional arts to adequately address the issues of real street [...]
Effective Training Methods for Street Self Defense| Part 1
August 29th, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
For quite a long time in my training career I laboured under the illusion that the methods of training I was using were preparing me to deal with actual violent encounters and combat outside the dojo. For many years I trained in traditional karate and then Jujitsu, diligently practicing techniques that I was told would [...]
Mind Training for Martial Artists| Part 7: The Inner Opponent
August 20th, 2009 · Comments · Mind Training
‘To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that training and discipline are about. So teach your mind to dwell on sweet [...]
Tags: Development·Fear·Inner Opponent·Martial Success·Psychology·Street Defense
Mind Training for Martial Artists| Part 6: Fear Control
August 18th, 2009 · Comments · Mind Training
“Fear is the mind killer.”—Gandhi
“We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of greatest courage, we enjoy and even thrill to the god-like possibilities we see in ourselves at such peak moments, and yet, simultaneously, shiver with weakness, awe and [...]
Tags: Development·Fear·Martial Success·Psychology·Street Defense
Street Self Defense: Trust in Your Training
July 22nd, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
Quite recently I was forced to intervene in a fight between two of my closest friends. A few of us were drinking at another friends house, seemingly having a good time, just chilling and chatting as you do when suddenly it all kicked of.
One of my friends, who I shall call Joe (not his real [...]
Get Rid of Two Common Martial Arts Fears Once and For All
June 14th, 2009 · Comments · Training Advice
Fear is something that every martial artist has to confront at some point, usually early on in their training. In terms of physical confrontation there are two types of fear: fear of getting hit and fear of hitting. Let’s look at each in more detail and how to get rid of them.
Fear of Getting Hit
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Tags: Development·Fear·Martial Attributes·Martial Success·Mastery·Psychology
