Competitions – What you thinking?

Competitions – What you thinking?

What type of fighter are you? Are you fighting and competing at the level that you’re capable of?  Do you regularly perform better in class than at tournaments? Are you losing to people you shouldn’t be? Do fears and self-doubts paralise you and prevent you from...
PNF Stretching for Martial Arts

PNF Stretching for Martial Arts

Flexibility is key to allow us to move freely and comfortably, and can also help prevent injury during exercise. Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) stretching relies on reflexes to produce deeper stretches that increase flexibility. What is PNF...
Yoga and Martial Arts

Yoga and Martial Arts

Yoga and Martial Arts At first glance, Yoga and Martial Arts seem like opposing forces and philosophies, but on closer inspection they are in fact opposite sides of the same coin, yin and yang you could say. After many years of constant back pain, trips to osteopaths,...