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Aside from the self defense skills you develop from training in the martial arts, the regular training also helps with anxiety and stress. Anxiety and stress will release chemicals that accumulate in the body. If you have a stressful routine throughout your week, by the end of the week they can build up and over time have a negative effect on your body. Training on a regular routine can clear these chemicals or stress toxins out of the body. I regularly hear the comment in class, “I always feel so much better after coming to the school and training”.



I often speak of having a maintenance plan for your body machine. Regular exercise is a very important item to have in your plan. That’s just another great thing about being in the culture of the martial arts; it supports a life long journey of physical development and intelligent maintenance of the body - especially if you can find a good school.

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Train Hard and Finish Strong!

If you would like more information on the various programs we offer here at the Atlanta martial arts center. Programs like Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, Thai boxing, Filipino Kali (stick fighting), judo, submission wrestling and more. Please give us a call at 770-926-3030 or check us out on the web atlantamartialartscenter.com
The Atlanta martial arts center is located in Woodstock Georgia and has been in business for 10 years. So if you are looking for an adult based school with a clean safe environment AMAC is the school for you.

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Guro Dan Inosanto has shared this idea with me many times in the past and it still holds true today. The idea of the Learning Triangle is this: Imagine a triangle laying on its side, the base line of the triangle is to your left and the tip is to your right. Imagine again that you are represented on the tip of the triangle and on the base line there are three points, the top corner, the bottom corner and the middle of the baseline.

The top of corner of the baseline is your teacher, he is the common source of knowledge in the given area you are studying. The bottom corner of the baseline is your younger brother or sister in class, some one who may be new to class or the area of study. The middle of the base line is someone who has studied for the same amount of time that you have, someone that would be considered your equal in class.

The reason for the triangle arrangement is this: You can learn from any point on the Learning Triangle. Obviously you learn from your teacher, but you should also be aware that you will learn from your classmates that have been training for the same amount of time as you. They may have a slightly different point of view of the same problem and this point of view may help you learn the topic better. Then there is your younger classmate, who, through questions, may force you to look at a topic from different angles. Having to formulate an explanation will sometimes bring you to seeking out new ways to present the material you have learned, helping you (and the younger classmate) to learn it better.

Looking at learning this way . . . . . it will expand your learning and training experience.
As always thank you for your support!
Train Hard and Finish Strong!

If you would like more information on the various programs we offer here at the Atlanta martial arts center. Programs like Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, Thai boxing, Filipino Kali (stick fighting), judo, submission wrestling and more. Please give us a call at 770-926-3030 or check us out on the web atlantamartialartscenter.com
The Atlanta martial arts center is located in Woodstock Georgia and has been in business for 10 years. So if you are looking for an adult based school with a clean safe environment AMAC is the school for you.

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This week in our Jeet Kune Do class here at the Atlanta martial arts Center we are focusing on the trapping range. If you are familiar with the range you would have to be in in order to punch someone this is generally called boxing range. If you stepped in a little closer to the opponent this is what we call trapping range in Jeet Kune Do. Trapping is when you try to immobilize your opponents hands and arms in order to keep them from grabbing or hitting you while you are attacking them. This is important because in a self-defense situation it is good to put yourself in a safe situation before you try to attack. Trapping can also be used to catch joint locks or to move into pummeling range where you could throw the opponent or do a takedown to put them on the ground. The trapping in Jeet Kune Do is based on the art of wing Chun. Bruce Lee studied wing Chun at a young age and it was this influence that brought it into the art of Jeet Kune Do. Jeet Kune Do was designed by Bruce Lee to be used on the street. Since it was made for this purpose it does not follow the rules of most sport-based systems, this is important because if you are seeking to be trained in self-defense is an important thing to know about the art you are studying or the instructor you are studying under. Both self-defense based systems and sport-based systems have tremendous benefits but depending on what your goal is in the martial arts it will be an important question to ask as you are looking for a martial arts school that will fit your goals.

If you would like more information on the various programs we offer here at the Atlanta martial arts center. Programs like Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, Thai boxing, Filipino Kali (stick fighting), judo, submission wrestling and more. Please give us a call at 770-926-3030 or check us out on the web atlantamartialartscenter.com
The Atlanta martial arts center is located in Woodstock Georgia and has been in business for 10 years. So if you are looking for an adult based school with a clean safe environment AMAC is the school for you.

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We are soon going to be updating our Jeet Kune Do program schedule. We are going to add some specialized classes in order to focus on specific areas of self-defense. Some of the specialized classes will include a Jeet Kune Do ground fighting class, and AG can go pummeling class. This will allow us to convey more detailed information to the student body. The great thing about Jeet Kune Do it is designed for self-defense, it was not developed for sport-based combat. Since JKD was not developed for the rain it makes a great answer to anyone looking for real-world self-defense. And all this combined with the adult centered environment at the Atlanta martial arts center makes our Jeet Kune Do program a good answer for the professional adult who is looking to learn how to defend himself in today's world but is not interested in the typical meathead mixed martial arts school environment.

If you would like more information on the various programs we offer here at the Atlanta martial arts center. Programs like Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, Thai boxing, Filipino Kali (stick fighting), judo, submission wrestling and more. Please give us a call at 770-926-3030 or check us out on the web atlantamartialartscenter.com
The Atlanta martial arts center is located in Woodstock Georgia and has been in business for 10 years. So if you are looking for an adult based school with a clean safe environment AMAC is the school for you.

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I have been adding Plyometric training to my training lately and have been having great results.

Plyometric training for the martial arts can help you increase your explosive power, your speed. It is important to remember that Plyometric training should be accompanied with strength training.

Remember to always warm up before your Plyo training session, this will help to avoid injury from the training. I usually do about 10-15 minuets of running to warm the body then begin the training. A good warm up will also increase the benefits of the training. It does this by increasing the sensitivity of the muscle spindle, which contains the fibres (called intrafusal fibres) that register the amount of stretch within a muscle.

I usually use an exercise that will build poser in one of the basic movements that you will find in the martial arts. an example would be the Jab and the Cross motion. most of the time you see the chest pass to develop this line in the upper body, but the chest pass is not a basic mechanic used in the martial arts.

you can get into the jab position with proper mechanics and have some one pass you a medicine ball. catch the ball in your Jabbing hand and let the weight of the ball contract the arm. at the bottom of the movement sharply reverse the motion and throw the ball back. the concept is the same as the chest pass exercise only i do it with the jab, cross body position and mechanics.

I usually do the exercises 3 times per week. remember to rest between sets for 3 to 5 mins. The goal is not fatigue but to complete each repetition with the maximum amount of speed and intensity. Also plyometric exercises won't leave you out of breath and that is normal so remember not to try to add more weight or reps to soon in your training.

As always thank you for your support!
Train Hard and Finish Strong!

This week in our Gracie Jiu-Jitsu class we are training on how to pass the guard. When only groom a lot of people will use their legs to contain you or keep you controlled. This is one learning to get around the legs, in order to get to a position of dominance and control your own you have to have the ability to pass the legs so that you can get to the side control position and then work your way into the mount position. Learning the past and when traffic this position is what we are working on this week. There are many ways to do this but you want to choose a method that is based on leverage and control of your opponent. This is what Gracie Jiu-Jitsu does best, all of the techniques in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu were design to be based on body mechanics and leverage in order to allow a smaller opponent to survive and win against a larger opponent.
This also extremely important to choose a school where you can accomplish your training in a nonthreatening and safe environment. It is not uncommon in the martial arts to see the people who actually need to learn something to defend themselves be scared off from a class because of a person's bad attitude in class. This is something that the Atlanta martial art does best.
If you would like more information on the various programs we offer here at the Atlanta martial arts center. Programs like Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, Thai boxing, Filipino Kali (stick fighting), judo, submission wrestling and more. Please give us a call at 770-926-3030 or check us out on the web atlantamartialartscenter.com
The Atlanta martial arts center is located in Woodstock Georgia and has been in business for 10 years. So if you are looking for an adult based school with a clean safe environment AMAC is the school for you.