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The Other Delta Force

Leave a Comment / Martial Arts Training / Jeffrey M. Brooks

As in battlefield intelligence analysis, we care about the delta. What is changing? In what way? Why?

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Fight on Your Feet or Wrestle on Your Knees?

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Your ability to maneuver, evade, close, dominate and counterattack is greater when you are mobile. On the ground, you lose many weapons and tactics that you have when you remain on your feet.

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2025 Annual Mountain Karate Seminar

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2025 Annual Mountain Karate Seminar

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From Appomattox to Okinawa

Leave a Comment / Martial Arts Ideas, Okinawa / Jeffrey M. Brooks

“… He habitually wears an expression as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall, and was about to do it. 

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Lost Bunkai and The Karate Revolution. Discover the cultural forces that caused the decline of karate; why the meaning of kata disappeared; why karate people forgot how to use kata training for self-defense. This content IS available, right now.

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Deer Park

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Everyone knows that to live in fear means losing your life.

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Fire Break

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Some members have evacuated. Others are on standby, ready to leave if they get the alert. 

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Fire On the Mountain 

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When you looked out over the mountains in the spring you saw the trees begin to bud, hillsides turning green. Now you see smoke during the day and fire at night.

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To Resist Evil

Leave a Comment / Martial Arts Training / Jeffrey M. Brooks

By training we find our way through the squalor of contemporary cultural decay, in its physical, mental and spiritual dimensions.

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Bunkai: Pinan Yondan – Rear Throw Defense

Leave a Comment / Kata and Kumite / Jeffrey M. Brooks

This technique looks like a “chest block.” But this application in Pinan Yondan shows a defense against an attempted rear throw.

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Kata and Yakusoku kumite Disconnect

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There are hundreds of existing yakusoku kumite’s within the kata. We can train with all of them: We learn both the attack and defense sides of each bunkai, and develop technical proficiency with each one.

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Two To The Head

Leave a Comment / Kata and Kumite / Jeffrey M. Brooks

Our double punch has a unique high-power application, facilitated by uniquely Okinawan training.

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Three Kata of Mind Training

Leave a Comment / Martial Arts Training / Jeffrey M. Brooks

Some martial arts mind training rejects structured mental activity, leaving practitioners stranded. Our approach is a powerful alternative.

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Mind Training Pressure

Leave a Comment / Inner Training / Jeffrey M. Brooks

For high-performance under pressure, keeping our attention in the present is an indispensible skill. It is not the goal. Of physical training or of mind training.

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Training Pressure

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Get strong. Not hurt.

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