Sei Ryu Kan Karate

Thank you to everyone who has trained with us this year. Until we find a place to train our classes will be temporarily on hold.

The average hallway is only 3 feet wide. After this week's class we found the importance of keeping techniques tight and the power of the clinch when fighting against the wall.

We're still meeting every Friday. This week's special topic is the collar tie escape.

This kind of thing drives me insane. Never ever just let someone hit you. Even if it's "supposed to be light" it only takes one mis-step to start the path to CTE.

Punch Defenses 1-5 Our white belt level punch defenses

We teach this. But this goes in depth.

Pure Punching vs Impure Punching. Jack Dempsey’s “Power Line” explained Remember those illustrations from Jack Dempsey’s book “Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching and Aggressive Defense” showing the man holding one arm out ...

Tapping into the artist part of martial artist.
Coverage map for basic strikes & kicks. Do you see the holes?

Looks like grab art 7. Ours doesn't give up the second hand though.

Defend and Disarm a Stick Attack Ed from Metrolina Martial Arts shows me the basic way to defend against a stick in self defense, but also shows me a super slick disarming technique that mak...

Sparring Highlights from our first Kaju after hours event. It's fun to mix it up every once in a while.

Sparring Highlights 1-28-22

Today I was contemplating the purpose of our training. Honestly I hope that no one has to use our lessons to fight. But what I love is watching our students learn to control themselves and find their true strength. It's like magic when someone goes from a fearful insecure white belt to a confident and competent master of themselves.
I wish more people would discover what they can become.

Things to think about. I like our knife defences, but our knife defences are a template.

The Truth about Knife Defense In this episode of Your Fit to Fight® Fix, co-founder Ryan Hoover addresses the principles behind our approach to knife defense, while acknowledging the inhe...

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