Why I Wrote Bringing The Martial Artist Out From Within and What's In It For YouI'm Rick Kirkham. What started out as a list of martial arts drills eventually became a book for both martial artists and self-defense practitioners. What's really unique about this book is....
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Why I Wrote Bringing The Martial Artist Out From Within and What's In It For YouWhat's Really Unique About This Martial Arts Drills Books Is....A few things actually. The first was admitting, regardless of being in martial arts since 1973, I am not the all encompassing expert on martial arts! Yes, I have a fairly unique background. Dual certified teacher with teaching certificates in physical education and special education for physical education, behavior modification expertise, positive reinforcement methodology expert, alternative teaching methods expert blah blah blah. Like my father says, "That and a couple of bucks will get me on the bus." And I agree with him! If I can't share my martial knowledge with my teaching skills it's worthless!
So, I got the help of a few martial artists and added their input to Bringing The Martial Artist Out from Within so I could create a more rounded encompassing experience for my readers AND myself since I'm still training and learning (only a fool thinks they know everything. Don't worry though, they've already stopped reading this).
I USE VIDEOS! Yep, I utilized the multi-media power of the internet so you can see the in-between stuff you have trouble figuring out from a book. Some of these videos were donated by other martial artists.
Another unique feature about this book is there are so many drills in this book that it takes you from beginning to "end" until you've basically formed your own fighting style based on the self-defense drills in this book.
Okay, scough away, but here's my reasoning....
The Holistic Method of Teaching often is More Effecient and FasterThe holistic method of teaching is basically teaching as a whole. I actually use a variation of this by taking what the student already does and simply refining it. A reverse punch for example I may teach like this:
Put your right leg back
Good now bend your front knee
Good now throw a punch with your right hand. Don't worry about your left hand right now
Good now straighten out your punch
Good now keep your elbow in closer to your body as you punch
Great job now bend your front knee more as you punch
keep your back straight as you punch
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I think you're getting the idea. I keep modifying until the student is executing a reverse punch with proper nonstriking hand usage as well.
Why Is The Holistic Method of Teaching Faster?Even experienced street fighters when coming to a martial arts school will feel as though they are learning something brand new. By simply adjusting what the student already does you are adding to previous knowledge not starting completely over. This speeds up the learning process to a faster degree than the part method of teaching.
That's what these martial arts drills do in Bringing The Martial Artist Out from Within!
What Does Bringing The Martial Artist Out From Within Have for Me?EVERYTHING LOL! Or at least that's what I like to think. Seriously what I do in this martial arts drills book is to start with very basic drills to teach the reader technique and power from all types of imaginable angles and situations all the way to mutliple attack defense drills and weapons use and defense.
Here's what's in Bringing The Martial Artist Out from Within
Continuous Blocking Drill
Air Shield Economy Drill
One Step Sparring A Versatile Martial Arts Drill
Overcoming Fear in a Self-Defense Situation
Drill Breaking Holds
Offense Defense Drill and Variations
Basic Beginner Evasive Drill
You're Full of Beans
Step by Step Learning Internal Energy Strikes
10 Technique Air Shield Striking Martial Arts Drill
Air Shield Sparring Drill
Ducking Drill
Three Combo Drill
Slipping Drill
The 10 Minute Martial Arts Workout
Bag Workouts for Martial Artists
Build Your Martial Arts Sparring Partner for Under $5.00
A Plastic Bag for a Training Tool?
Choke and Strangulation Basics
Joint Lock Exchange Drill
Sensitivity Drills Seeing Without Sight
Multiple Attack Defense Basics
Multiple Attack Defense Blocking Drill
Multiple Attack Counter Attack Drill
Multiple Attack Drill Awareness Training
Free for All Slow Motion Sparring
How to Make a Safety Sword
Making a Shinai-Based Longsword Simulator
Tire Stick Drill
A Great Principle for Getting Your Students to Learn Faster
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NOW! Having looked at this table, don't be an idiot (yes I'm being direct). Don't look at it and think,
"Oh, yeah, I do similar stuff to this. I don't need this." Open your mind instead like the good martial artist you are. I've taken my Methods of Teaching Physical Education classes and martial arts experience AND combined it with my slight case of ADHD which forced me to focus on these martial arts and self-defense drills AND develop alternative martial arts and self-defense drills when my ADHD brain got tired of those.
Furthermore, I break things down to the ridiculous! But the ridiculous is where we can learn even more about how to improve what we do.
How Big Is This Martial Arts Drills Book?With 14 point text so older eyes like mine can read a printed version easily, the book, pictures and video links are 94 pages. The download is only about 1.5 meg since I linked the videos to my website to save download time. Now you can just download the videos as you need them and once downloaded they'll load quickly due to the cache on your computer (techy stuff but the videos will load faster). My Firefox offers a download of the videos so you can place them in a separate folder to view later if you like.
What Else to Say?I don't know what else to say. Maybe I'm to close to the subject. So if you like email me with questions or ask questions in one of my martial arts forums or Yahoo Groups.
The martial arts drills I've developed, modified and use myself work great! I once received a compliment on my ability to block punches and kicks from a tournament champion while sparring him. In case you don't know successful tournament fighters are REAL FAST (especially the one that complimented me that was half my age and in the military).
I put off the compliment by stating it was from a fear of getting hit lol, BUT those blocking skills along with my ability to counter-attack from all types of angles CAME DIRECTLY FROM martial arts drills inside Bringing The Martial Artists Out from Within.
So, here's the order information. It's $19.00 (hey, where you going I have a bonus for you too) and I'm going to
throw in my downloadable one hour and 15 minute full video Overcoming Fear and Self-Defense for a while as a bonus. The video also covers a lot of my martial arts drills as well so it will, while I'm offering it, be a GREAT learning tool.
Click Here For Instant Access Even if It's 2:00 AM http://NewbieServices.com/Order/JustDoIt_bmaofw.htm?bmaofwspOne more thing. I know there's people out there strapped for cash. If you REALLY want my martial arts drills book AND just plain old can't afford it send me an offer via email.
I may do several things:
Tell you to get bent
Make an alternative offer
Or accept your offer
I'm opening a HUGE can of worms by doing this and my work is WORTH WAY MORE than what I'm charging now, but I want to share as well as feed my family so let's try this and see how it goes.
Congratulations By The WayIf you're still here you have an open mind and can benefit from my book. Here's my contact information if you have questions. Congratulations once again on your willingness to learn more about our beloved art.
Rick
Sensei J. Richard Kirkham B.Sc.
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