Training with Sensei.

I am often asked, why should I train with you on the online academy or in person with you in a private lesson. Good questions. The thing is, I put together the entire Northstar Ju jitsu syllabus. It is based on my years of fighting. For those of you that have done one of my…

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Where will your martial arts training go?

Where will your martial arts training go? If you keep training, doing gradings, competitions is there a point that you wonder what it is all for? May be you don’t get that far, the body gives in before the mind says; okay what’s next. This simple question; what’s next? Is where the wheels fall off.…

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2024

There is a freshness in the air. I walked outside this morning, and it hit me like a tsunami. The holiday season is well and truly over. Should I try and extend it to Valentine Day, or how about Easter. I can then make it to my birthday. Wait, here’s an idea, why don’t I…

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Living a disciplined life

This is one of the chapters from my new book: A warrior must live a disciplined life. Unless you live a disciplined life, it’s too easy to get involved with stuff. People use their car horn as a weapon because you’re not moving as fast as they want you to. When we had the hair-trigger…

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To kill or not to kill.

It is interesting to watch the USA media as the law agencies arrest a 24 your old ex marine for choking and killing a homeless man on the New York subway. He has been charged with second degree manslaughter. The marine claims it was self defence but just how far should we go? I was…

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The covid hang over.

Are you still hanging onto the past? I certainly would not hold it against you if you were? Covid, the big unknown just smashed the world from the very beginning. The good new is that the zombie apocalypse never happened, not yet at least. Cities from around the world are now all learning to live…

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The Perfect Student.

Steve is a perfect student. He works hard and dreams of getting ahead and providing for his family. He is a hard worker that is committed and disciplined. He will stick it out and work hard to achieve his goals. He is happy to work through on line learning modules of the academy with my…

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Is online the end of excellence?

Is online the end of excellence as we know it. There is no doubt that the buy before you see mode of making a purchase has its risks. As it cuts out the entire pre-sale checks and the seller can sell you whatever they see fit. I know that Liz and I have made some…

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Martial Arts near me.

For quite some time I have wondered how I am going to write a blog post on martial arts near me. When I get the google analytics each month for the Northstar website, by far “martial arts near me” is hands down the most used search term in looking for martial arts schools. I have…

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Are you a Mc Dojo.

Just for a minute, let go of everything that you believe about martial arts tuition. Just take your blinkers off and ask yourself. Who wrote the rule book on how martial arts should be presented? It takes courage to step outside of the norm in anything you do. But it is we few pioneers that…

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Becoming a spiritual warrior 

spiritual warrior

Becoming a spiritual warrior Take me to Meditation pure and simple. We as humans, reflect our inner world onto our outer world. How we run our lives is in direct association with what we think. The world will never change whilst we as individuals continue to think, act and desire what’s in it for me.…

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Martial Arts in Sydney

Martial arts sydney

Martial arts in Sydney I was in the US a couple of weeks ago and I was invited to attend one of the premier American Martial Arts competitions, The Battle of Atlanta. This was an honour as it was the 50th anniversary of the event, so it was attended by American Martial Arts so called…

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