Intro to psy-ki-do
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Pat Parker
Posted in: Blog Posts in Martial Arts
Inspired by The Men Who Stare at Goats, for the next week or so I'll be writing a series of articles on what I'm calling Psy-ki-do. Sort of the soft science, pseudo-science, o ...
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Early jujitsu video
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Pat Parker
Posted in: Blog Posts in Martial Arts
Possibly the first video of jujitsu (judo) ever recorded! Pretty cool stuff! . ____________ Patrick Parker is a Christian, husband, father, martial arts teacher, Program Dir ...
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Mokuren Dojo Newsletter
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Pat Parker
Posted in: Blog Posts in Martial Arts
As the year is drawing to a close I have quite a few new things on the drawing board, one of which is a new dojo/blog newsletter! The newsletter will include dojo news and inf ...
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Nice aikido demo
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Pat Parker
Posted in: Blog Posts in Martial Arts
Very nicely-done aikido demonstration. Much of what you see in the first half of this video has the same feel, the same energy as the Yonkata material that we'll be working o ...
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Time to float
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Pat Parker
Posted in: Blog Posts in Martial Arts
Picture courtesy ofBekiPeOne of the interesting peculiarities about our particular scope and sequence _ our method for teaching Tomikiryu, is that between Ikkyu (1st brown bel ...
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Marks on hip motion
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Pat Parker
Posted in: Blog Posts in Martial Arts
Today I'm pleased to haveMarksguest posting here at Mokuren Dojo. Marks' blog has been a consistent source of thoughtful articles on judo, karate, self-defense, and mixed mar ...
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Koshiguruma
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Pat Parker
Posted in: Blog Posts in Martial Arts
Awesome private class tonight. For a while now I've been avoiding subjecting my faithful readers to my training logs, but I felt like I should write this one down. Tonight w ...
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Effective choke
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Pat Parker
Posted in: Blog Posts in Martial Arts
What do y'all think of this choke? It seems to me like it took an awful long time for the ref to stop the match after the girl was obviouslly knocked out or at least not makin ...
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We have a winner!
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Pat Parker
Posted in: Blog Posts in Martial Arts
A few days ago I changed my blog template and said I'd give away a copy of a great book to one lucky, random commenter who would leave me a comment or suggestion about the new ...
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