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Adult outdoor training will begin on Tuesday July 6th at East York Collegiate Football Field. Classes are every Tuesday and Thursday from...

“Fulfil your role to the best of your ability”, one of my first managers said to me. Hummmm, I realised this is not a simple statement. I...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the way sleep is perceived in our culture. As more and more evidence comes to light about the physical,...

For centuries, cold showers have been considered as medical treatments and are favoured over the luxurious hot baths by our forefathers...

Human contact is a basic need, making self-isolation during the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic a mental health challenge for many....

There’s this drill…we all have them….that I just dread. I know its coming and I have to fight myself inside every time. Could it be...

We tell ourselves a lot of stories about what we can and can’t do. Fear holds us back from achieving our goals and dreams. Fear is the...

Simple Ways to Improve Your People Skills To develop natural and innate people skills requires effort along with trial and error. Here...

Strategy #1: Avoid unnecessary stress Not all stress can be avoided, and it’s not healthy to avoid a situation that needs to be...

“Fall in Love with the Process” 1. Become the Process - Work for Yourself and work on Yourself. Love what you do! 2. Success contains...

A martial artist should be a diplomat. A diplomat must be flexible, tactful and quick to adjust to changing conditions. Living in a big...

There are both conscious and subconscious forms of body language. These ‘signals’ or displays demonstrate a person’s intent before...

Spent a lot of time training this weekend. Mostly looking at my Systema practices. My kids commented on the fighting as they watched me....

The ancient Greeks devised an easy two-step test for telling apart heroism and impulse: Would you do it again? And could you? When the...

I have been asking this question to students for years and I would say 99% would say YES. On face value that would seems odd especially...

Flow The surgeon in the operating room feels flow; so does the rock climber on a cliff, the athlete in the midst of a game or the mother...

By first having students rotate, move and manipulate a partner's joints one at a time they get a first hand feel for how they work. Care...

Evasion skills are a large part of the training curriculum. Favored over blocks, evasion techniques are efficient and keep the hands and...

Movement is paramount. The body is in constant movement, even when you believe it to be still. Blood is moving and organs functioning,...

​ If you cannot control your breathing, life will not fair well for you. When you consider how many bodily functions are regulated...