Retraining Your Flinch Responses
Mark Russo dives deep into teaching you how to turn your autonomic flinch responses directly into ways to stay safe against surprise attacks.
Course Category: Martial Arts
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Developing Foundational Muscle Memory
Shihan Mark Sentoshi Russo teaches you several drills that you can do on your own to build muscle memory around foundational concepts.
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Winter Quest 2020
An-Shu Stephen and An-Shu Rumiko Hayes teach at Chapel Hill’s Winter Quest 2020 event. Learn insights to several of the Happo Biken Secrets of the Sword, how to intercept an aggressor’s attack, time your defense to overcome their superior strength, and more.
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Four Foundations of Movement
An-shu Stephen K. Hayes teaches his approach to the four elements as four specific physio-emotional responses to an attack. Earth holding ground, water tactically repositioning, fire intercepting, and wind evading are the four key ways of movement to explore in your beginning study of To-Shin Do.
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Austin Texas Seminar in 1993
Teleport back to 1993 with this seminar from An-shu Stephen K. Hayes in Austin, Texas.
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Get to Your Feet - Reversals
In this course, we will explore several options to “Get To Your Feet” if you’ve found yourself knocked, or drug down to the ground in an altercation. Reversals are the fastest way, when they work, to regain the top position to ultimately get back up to our feet and away from the attacker.
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Hombu January and July Curriculum
Here are the To-Shin Do foundational kata for the month of July, as taught in the Hombu Dojo in Dayton, Ohio.
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BoFit Workout
This follow along training session will provide you with a full body workout and allow you to train your “bojutsu” flows and transitions. The only thing you will need is your bo and some space. Let’s get started!
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Getting to Your Feet With Sweeps
This second installment of our “Get to Your Feet” series will cover what to do if our first plan didn’t pan out for us. If we can’t immediately get off of the bottom then lets transition to a position with more options and try again.
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Hombu March and September Curriculum
This is what the Hombu is teaching during the months of March and September.
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Bojutsu Kihon
Bojutsu Kihon is a 9-kyu course introducing the bo long staff fundamentals taught by To-Shin Do. Completion of the course might take a year-and-a-half to two years. 9 kyu diplomas are issued, followed by a Bojutsu Kihon diploma, comparable to receiving a Black Belt in bojutsu.
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The Principles of Nidan
Join Shihan Mark Sentoshi Russo as he explores the principles of Nidan 2nd Degree Black Belt at a seminar at the Hombu in Dayton, Ohio. You’ll explore advanced concepts that demonstrate how we adapt and adjust when things don’t go well.
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Tsuki Iri Historical Forms and Modern Applications
James Kentoshi Norris shares his deep knowledge of “hanbo-jutsu” with us as we take a deep dive into the kata “Tsuki Iri”. Historical context and modern applications are presented in this highly enlightening course.
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Hombu April and October Curriculum
The Hombu dojo in Dayton, Ohio teaches these techniques and lessons in April and October of every year.
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The Two-On-One Knife Defense System
The “Two-On-One Knife Defense System” is a series of connecting “hubs” that allow you to find reproducible positions that then allow you to take charge of an opponent’s knife wielding arm.