Fight, Flight or Freeze:Trained and Untrained Response
School is out for the summer and it is a normal day, like any other. The sun is shinning, birds are singing in the trees and you’re working part time […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Sensei Davis, Olympic Torchbearer
Katherine Grainger will today come face to face with the man who began her career in sport – in the unusual context of the Olympic Torch Relay. The rower, who […]
Beginners work? Why we should spend more time on the Heian forms
Approximately three years ago I was chatting with a well known senior martial artist and I mentioned that I had put together a flow system for the Heian Kata, teaching […]
The Pinan Shodan dilemma – for exercise or conflict?
The Pinan (平安?) kata are a series of five empty hand forms taught in many karate styles. The Pinan kata originated in Okinawa and were adapted by Anko Itosu from […]
