Master Norris and An-shu Hayes take you through answers to even more challenging ground situations, giving you tools and techniques to defend, control, and end the fight, as well as drills to help you polish your techniques.
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Getting Started with Meditation
Shihan Mark Sentoshi Russo introduces you to the concepts, principles, and techniques of a basic meditation practice. Learn how to gain clarity, focus, and achieve a calmness of mind that will help you reduce stress in your daily life.
Ground Fighting I
Learn fundamental ground defense skills from Master Norris and An-shu Hayes. This course covers common ground attacks, core defenses, ways to reposition for control, and ways to create space to escape.
Deceptive Takedowns
To-Shin Do Senior Master Instructor Mark Sentoshi Russo teaches you clearly the secrets of the Ninja Leg Trap. This incredibly practical and immediately applicable course provides sneaky, unexpected and easy-to-learn principles for good technique. The ninja leg trap is a must-have secret weapon for your self-defense arsenal.
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Magical Escapes
Explore some of the key 6th Degree To-Shin Do Black Belt principles and techniques with An-shu Stephen K. Hayes.
Kai Soku
Guided Meditation: Rejuvenation!
Breathe in. Breathe out. Feel the energy in your body. Try this meditation when you need to feel more alive, awake, alert and aware.
Training:
Flexible Weapon Snares and Captures
Master Mark Sentoshi Russo teaches you the essential principles of snares and captures using flexible weapons, such as the ninja kusarifundo.
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Essential Rear Hip Throw Training
This self-defense course focuses on proper fire elemental taisabaki (body positioning) for a minimum-effort, maximum-effect expedient end to this very common and dangerous attack.
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Unarmed Defenses Against Knife Attacks
Master Norris and An-shu Hayes guide you through defenses to common attacks, knife-holding details, body positioning, and several drills designed to sharpen your awareness and self defense capability.
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Fire Responses to Lead-Cross Attacks
Master Mark Sentoshi Russo teaches you how to develop your body’s natural flinch responses in scientific ways to defend against a surprise lead-cross combination attack. This self-defense course focuses on proper fire elemental taisabaki (body positioning) for a minimum-effort, maximum-effect expedient end to this very common and dangerous attack.
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Sword Mastery Series – Happo Giri Kata
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To-Shin Do Happo Biken Happo Giri is one of the Kuki Shinden Ryu nine secrets of the sword as taught to Toshitsugu Takamatsu in late 1800s. An-shu says, “The principle of ‘cutting the cut’ looks like a simple way to win when your adversary underestimates you, but you need bravery, precision, and well-practiced skill to make it work. We show you the secrets for Happo Giri as part of our dojo’s program for earning 4th Degree Black Belt, as I learned it in Japan from my teacher in the mid-1970s.”
Guided Meditation: Here. Now.
An-shu guides you through a meditation designed to help you be in the present moment.
Training:
Safe and Realistic Training
Double your martial understanding in half the time. Learn to be a good uke (attacker). The role of the attacker is one of the most misunderstood aspects of martial arts training. This course teaches you how to be a realistic attacker and accelerate your learning with every punch you throw.
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Getting Started with the Bo Staff
Learn core fundamentals, exercises, strikes and defenses using the rokushaku bo (6-foot long staff). Master Russo explores the some of the possibilities available from Seigan No Kamae and breaks them down into easy-to-learn lessons..