So... I had a video go viral on Instagram last week. It's been a hell of a ride. Watch the video below to hear the story. Why do YOU think this video went viral? Please share your thoughts in the Comments section below. Thanks for listening! [...]
If you want to get better at something (for example, karate) you need to keep two things in mind: Progress happens when we put in enough effort on a consistent basis over a long period of time. If something isn't working, we should change it. The tricky part is figuring out [...]
There's this idea going around online that life is supposed to be easy. That we're supposed to be happy all the time. That we should think positively, and that if we think positively, good things will happen to us. I call bullshit. Life is a complicated, messy affair and so-called "negative emotions" are [...]
Check out this step-by-step video tutorial on how to assert dominance. (If you have any suggestions on how I could have handled this situation better, please respond in the Comments section below.) Recommended Resources 6 courses to help you improve mobility throughout your kinetic [...]
Check out this step-by-step video tutorial on how to perform the DEADLIEST self-defence technique ever. No matter what martial art you practise, knowing this could save your life. Recommended Resources 6 courses to help you improve mobility throughout your kinetic chain. Awesome for improving [...]
Grappling dummies are a great way to get in some valuable training time at home, but a quick search online reveals how expensive these dummies can be. So I figured out how to make my own grappling dummy using materials I have at home. Check out my step-by-step tutorial in the [...]
British Columbia is currently under a state of emergency due to unprecedented wildfires. This has quickly become the worst wildfire season in the history of our province. Many people have lost their homes, the air quality is horrific, and citizens are existing in a limbo of fear and uncertainty. My heart goes out [...]
Why is it so easy to create some habits but so tough to create others? The typical advice out there—practise something consistently over a certain period of time, such as 21 days—doesn’t always work. And when this seemingly reasonable formula doesn’t work for us, it can be incredibly demoralizing. It turns out that [...]
You don’t have to be an expert to have something valuable to teach or say. You don’t need to have a perfect life to have a story worth sharing. And yet... we live in this curated world, this filtered feed. The online world is full of façade and illusion. We can’t [...]
The best way to overcome a lack of motivation and the resulting inertia is to break a project down into small actions. This has been of tremendous value to me in all aspects of my life and martial arts training. But this tactic does have a caveat. If we keep our actions TOO small, [...]