00:00Now let's go outside where I've found several trees located in ideal positions for delivering various low kicks.
00:06Roundhouse kicks, front kicks, side kicks, back kicks, and so on.
00:14Here I have air shields tied strategically to different heights on a tree.
00:22This is described very thoroughly in my book, The Ultimate Weapon, and now you're seeing it live.
00:29You can see I can work various kicks, straight-in side kicks, roundhouse kicks, and front kicks.
00:40Working on trees is very good because these trees are very strong and stable.
00:44I'm doing the content online, and I want to thank all my customers all over the world
00:48that are ordering and downloading the digital videos at fightingsecrets.com.
00:53Today I want to talk a little bit about repetitive drilling or static repetition
00:59and how important that's been, at least in my development as a martial artist.
01:03I know there's a lot of kind of downplaying about repetition,
01:07but things come and go, and there's a purpose and a need for all these different aspects of training.
01:13Now, when I transitioned into judo and jiu-jitsu, I had a karate school, but I basically started from scratch.
01:19So I had to figure out a way to accelerate my training, and based on my karate training,
01:25which did a lot of repetition, I thought that might be the fastest way to do it when I was
01:30doing judo.
01:31So I was practicing privates once a week with Oishi Sensei in Manhattan,
01:36and what I did was create drills that encompassed what I thought were an important repertoire
01:43of foot sweeps, takedowns, and throws, and then I combined those into a set that had 15 techniques,
01:51essentially four or five of each, and I would do that every day, sometimes into the hundreds.
01:56Now, on the weekends, I could probably see myself doing anywhere between 1,000 and 5,000 repetitions,
02:01because if you take those 15 and do, let's say, 100 each, and you do several sets of those,
02:06you can see where I'm going with that. Now, what do you think the purpose of that was?
02:11Well, after a few months, my instructor, my judo instructor, said I should take group classes and ultimately test.
02:19Now, what you see here is actually live fight footage of my white belt test.
02:24I think it was about six to eight months in of my judo training, and the way they did it
02:30was everybody lined up
02:31and from white belts to advanced belts, and you had to fight the guy next to you,
02:36and if you kept winning, you went down. On that day, I think I did about 11 or 12 e
02:42-pons,
02:42so I went deep into the colored belts, so literally in less than eight months or so,
02:47I obtained my brown belt in judo. That's the way we did it back then.
02:50You fought, and if you beat belts at whatever belts you beat, you were pretty close to that caliber,
02:55as long as you had some of the technical knowledge of the curriculum, which I did,
02:59because I was very studious in that manner. Now, the next thing, unfortunately, was my instructor
03:06ordered me to enter tournaments, and we're talking about 30 years ago. Brown and black belts competed
03:12together, so with less than 12 months, I'm competing against brown and black belts. Some of these guys
03:18had several years, if not even a couple of decades of training. Now, in these scenes that you have here,
03:25I'm actually throwing and even tapping brown and black belts. Now, some were worse than others,
03:31I admit, but you have to say that, you have to admit that within 12 months to be able to
03:36enter
03:36into a brown and black belt division in a completely different combat sport and do well,
03:42I think is a testament to how I structured my training routines and actually has been the results
03:50that I've been helping with for people throughout the world with my home study course. If you're on a
03:56serious journey to continue improving your martial arts skill, I call it a journey in self-improvement.
04:04I really hope you take into consideration ordering my home study course. Now, if you look at the way the
04:10material is structured, I cover all the ranges of combat in a very systematic fashion, including the
04:17physical attributes. So not only do you have the striking arsenal, but you have the abs, weight
04:24training, flexibility, endurance, all that are also techniques to help enhance your striking and
04:30grappling skills. So go to fightingsecrets.com, check out the material. If you have any questions at all,
04:36I'm available by email, fightingsecretsonline at gmail.com.
04:42Let's see.
04:56We'll see you next time.
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