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Bunkai Flow Drill

September 10, 2014
Jason Stanley
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Important post today about applying bunkai… I know, I know “applying bunkai” is kind of redundant, right? Shouldn’t it be just “application” or “bunkai” instead of “applying bunkai”? Hmmmm. Anyway, I digress… Most often you’ll see two karate-ka apply bunkai (there’s that redundancy yet again) in the following way in a very formal manner. Both students […]

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Dealing with ADHD

August 12, 2014
Jason Stanley
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Last week I received an email from Tom who wrote… “I am starting to have kids in my class who are ADHD.   Any suggestions for drills or teaching techniques that will help address this issue?” Ahhhh… the good old ADHD challenge! I wrote about this a while back in regards to PPS, and also a bunch […]

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Once I thought I was wrong…

July 22, 2014
Jason Stanley
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Years ago when I had a “real job”, my boss “NJ” used to have a sign on his desk that read: It was a reminder that since he was the boss we probably should listen to him. And for the most part we did. Ninety-nine times out of one hundred he was right. And on the […]