FAQs

Practice.

How quickly do you want to improve? The more you practice the faster your skill will develop.

As often as possible. Class time is precious because you are being observed by people who are knowledgable about the skills you are developing. The ability of those people to observe your performance in real time is priceless. Progress will be most rapid and generalizable with more frequent class attendance.

Yes. We are practicing forms of physical, emotional and mental combat. Pain in each of these areas is not uncommon. However, it is not the goal of training to cause anyone pain. Instead, we understand that pain is an inevitable consequence of combative interaction with others. Though some pain is common in martial training, serious injury is not common. Our instructors and students have been practicing martial arts for many years without serious injury.

We will take care of you. Traditional martial arts systems developed knowledge of how to injure and disable opponents. The knowledge acquired in developing skills of destruction also formed the basis of the skills of healing. We provide training in these basic healing practices. We make no claim to be a substitute for the medical community. We work closely with them to improve whatever injuries you may incur.

Exercise makes you stronger. The more you strain a muscle the stronger it gets. Strength is the outcome of training the nervous system as well as the muscles to work in coordination to achieve a particular movement. Strength is a skill. Exercise as we do it is a practice in which you develop the ability to bring more and more awareness to the form of the exercise so that the movement becomes easier.

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