This video lesson is a collection of top tips that will help your training enormously. We usually show things like this in isolation, one tip at a time. That is the easiest way to learn them. But it is not how they should be used.

It is for anyone who trains, at any level, and especially for people who collect tips and techniques but never seem to put them together.

One Tip At A Time Is Only The Start

Learning one thing at a time makes sense. You can focus, you can see the change, and you can check you have got it right. The problem comes when people leave it there. They have a box full of separate tips and use one or two at a time.

You should use as many of them as possible in everything you do. A tip about the feet, a tip about the shoulders and a tip about timing are not three different lessons. They are three parts of one movement.

Stack Them Up

Add these top tips to all the other lessons and information we have covered before, and to what we cover in the future. Add them to what you already know as well. Nothing here is meant to replace your current skills. It is meant to make them better.

Some simple ways to stack tips:

  • Take a technique you already use and add one new tip to it
  • When that feels natural, add a second
  • Check that the earlier tips are still there and have not dropped out
  • Keep going until the technique has everything you know built into it

Over time, what started as a list of separate ideas becomes one smooth way of moving.

Make Them Yours

Take the time to think where you can best apply the information for you. Not every tip is equally useful to everyone. Your size, your build, your art and your goals all make a difference. A tip that changes everything for one person might be a small improvement for another. Test them, keep what works, and look again at what does not.

How To Practise It

Pick one session a week to review. Go back through the tips you have learnt and check which are in your movement and which have disappeared. Work slowly, then add speed, and only then add resistance. Write down what you find. It is surprising how much you forget if you do not.

Take It Further

If you want a structured way to build tips and principles into your training, Private Mentoring is the most direct route. To start learning principles that stack together, try the FREE Pressure Point Fighting Mini-Course.