9PM Class

For all of you that were at class on March 6th....excellent job. Everyone did at least three 5min rounds of positional grappling, and that isn't easy to do by any means.

DSMA Videos

Dragons Spirit Martial Arts student Matt demonstrating the ever popular med ball slam.

Brocks Next Opponent

According to Sherdog.com, Coleman and Lesnar will square off at UFC 87 on Aug. 9, which will take place in Minneapolis, Minn.

Paradigm Of Pain

Push Up Series "Genocide"

1. Regular Push Ups 30sec
2. Wide Push Ups 30sec
3. Close Push Ups (elbows touching sides) 30sec
4. Diamond Push Ups 15sec
5. Regular Push Ups to failure

Its the Principle of the thing.

"As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always been fascinated by the principles of the martial arts, which in turn lead me to look for the principles in everything in my life. Consider principles the essence of everything you do, with out principles to guide our methods then there is no substance to anything. I try my best to never do anything in my training just for the sake of doing it, or just because so and so did it. I always ask myself if I am training a certain way because it works for me and I understand it or just because it is what everyone else is doing.

To me there is no best method to do something, method implies something that is set in stone. Principles are adaptable to many things and they allow you to evolve and adapt regardless of your chosen endeavor.

Paradigm Of Pain

The Paradigm of Pain is a series of exercises grouped together to create a circuit. There are various versions with each one focusing on a different attribute such as strength endurance, explosive endurance and so on.

Ab Series "Crash and Burn" (Strength Endurance Emphasis) each exercise is done for 1 min with no rest in between.

1. Butterfly Curl Ups
2. Squirm
3. Flutter Kicks
4. Crunches
5. Frog Kicks

To make your own series you can do it like this:

1. Upper Ab Movement
2. Oblique Movement
3. Lower Ab Movement
4. Upper Ab Movement
5. Lower Ab Movement

Each done for one minute with no rest.

The Ultimate System

For years people have been searching for the ultimate/universal martial art system. Some individuals have claimed that their art or system is the supreme of all...insert hysterical laugh ....with no basis other than their own point of view. However, I do believe that most systems contain elements of truth.

But I also believe that these elements are more rooted in principle than technique.

All techniques should be built upon dynamic bio-mechanical principles.

Unfortunately many systems are guided by techniques instead of principles.

I think that the universal search should be for universal principles that once found can be the basis for combative effectiveness.

1000 techniques are ok...but....a few universal principles lead to spontaneous, infinite applications.