I have been quite busy over the past month or so writing and getting my new book ready for release. It’s all about how to improve your martial arts sparring using the tools, skills, and strategies I go over in the book. There is also a sparring plan that you can implement the various skills and strategies into your sparring game so you can learn how to outthink your sparring partners or opponents and score more points.
The book is scheduled for the official launch of.Monday August 22nd but you can pre-order your kindle version at the links below for a generous discount off the soon to be regular price.
Is Taekwondo Hard To Learn? Master Jonathan discusses whether taekwondo is hard to learn or is taekwondo training hard? He goes over both sides of the question in detail. Hee breaks down how anyone can learn taekwondo and how there are various degrees of difficulty in taekwondo training, and that it is you who decides how easy or hard training is and how easy or harder to learn taekwondo and martial arts.
Upper Body Striking Only Beginner Sparring Drills is a great way to just focus on your boxing skills and boxing sparring as well as focusing on adding elbows and palm strikes to your beginner sparring drills. You can work on offensive and defensive punches, palm strikes, and elbow strikes for mma, kickboxing, and self defense. Most beginners will feel more comfortable with hand strikes or upper body sparring as it will feel more natural as we were taught to use our hands more than our feet. Focusing on getting good with boxing skills will help you defend your head as well as learning to set up your kicks and knee strikes to the groin and legs of your opponent or assailant.
Sparring in itself is unpredictable as most self defense situations are. Martial Arts styles such as taekwondo, where you do a lot of sparring, are more practical for self defense because you aren’t just drilling with theory. You actually learn what sparring skills and self defense skills work for you. This is a key point we teach in our self defense for women workshops.
Learn how to catch the leg in these beginner sparring drills helps you to control what kicks are thrown at you during sparring as you make your opponent question which kicks to throw. These beginner-friendly sparring drills also help you with your self defense skills as you will learn how to catch a kick and throw your attacker off balance. This will give you the opportunity to escape the situation. In sparring, it is common in various martial arts styles to catch the leg to set up takedowns and effective counter strikes.
Sparring in itself is unpredictable as most self defense situations are. Martial Arts styles such as taekwondo, where you do a lot of sparring, are more practical for self defense because you aren’t just drilling with theory. You actually learn what sparring skills and self defense skills work for you. This is a key point we teach in our self defense for women workshops.