JAPANESE MARTIAL ARTS CENTER

Congratulations, Andrea on your promotion to brown belt! OUTSTANDING work!

Saturday, Feb 25, 2012 Time: 10am - 2 pm Location: Japanese Martial Arts Center 09:30 - 10:00 am - Sign In 10:00 – 10:45 am - Jodo (4-F...

The latest numbers suggest that the average person spends sixty hours or more a week using their butt as a base of operations. That makes th...

Today a client asked me, “how can you run a law practice and an SEO business, teach at your martial arts dojo, consult for businesses, write...

Have you ever heard the saying: “You don’t drown by falling in water, you only drown if you stay there.” As far as I can figure out, it was ...

We've heard that a friend will lend you their pickup truck, but a real friend will show up to help you move. If that's true, JMAC ha...

Hi, Suino Sensei here! I want to talk to you for a few minutes about a saying I’m sure you’ve heard many times. Maybe you even use it yourse...

The other day I was having coffee with my friend Ian, and we were talking about what each of us could do to help people become more effectiv...

Announcing the Second Annual… Southern Michigan Martial Arts Summit And why you should crawl across broken glass on your naked knees to ge...

The BP oil rig that is gushing tens of thousands of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico is the largest environmental crisis the world h...

The First Annual Southern Michigan Martial Arts Summit was an OUTSTANDING success! Here are the details of the event that took place on Su...

"There are no advanced techniques, only advanced applications." - Shooting From Within, by J. Michael Plaxco, 1991. The idea tha...

In terms of the body, the martial arts are a collection of postural forms designed to express physical energy in an intelligent way. This ex...

An upright posture is important in the martial arts for four reasons, specifically: 1) it unifies the upper body with the ...

What is jujutsu? In the 21st Century, the term "jujutsu" - also sometimes spelled " jujitsu " or " jiu jitsu ...

Out in the "real" world , we take great pains to express ourselves. We choose certain clothes, drive a certain make of car, and we...

Between the martial arts teachers at the Japanese Martial Arts Center in Ann Arbor and their students, there exists a social contract . The...

What does it mean to "master" a martial art? In the Japanese martial arts, we are very reluctant to use the term "master....

The Frog. Sato Shizuya (Chief Director of Kokusai Budoin, IMAF) sometimes tells the story of the frog at the bottom of the well. The frog, ...

"Empty Your Cup" is a martial arts aphorism that virtually every student has heard. It refers to the idea that students should pu...