JUNIOR SAMURAI STRIPE CHALLENGE: TECHNIQUE WEEK OF 11/04/24 This week’s Junior Samurai stripe challenge is Blue for Initiative! Students can earn a blue stripe by hand writing a short note to a teacher or coach figure (BJJ coaches are exempt) in which they describe something they learned that they enjoyed. Easy peasy this week!
THE RED CORNER NEWS AND UPDATES FROM THE NORTH STAR ACADEMY OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS WEEK OF OCTOBER 28th, 2024 Happy Monday Team! I’m writing this on a plane en route from Vienna to Washington, D.C. where I’ll chill for a minute before finally heading back to Philly. Can’t wait to be home! I’ll […]
MONDAY MINDSET: K.I.S.S. WEEK OF 10/28/24 When it comes to making things complex, I’m as guilty as anyone else. Fighting is, at the highest level, extremely complex. Knowledge, first and foremost, drives action, and action drives results. Therefore, knowledge is power, right? Well, yes, of course… That said, I do have a LOT to say […]
JUNIOR SAMURAI STRIPE CHALLENGE: TECHNIQUE WEEK OF 10/28/24 This week’s Junior Samurai stripe challenge is Green for Technique! Students must complete 10 rounds of a Muay Thai or BJJ game with a parent (each round roughly 1-2 minutes) over a seven day period. Keep it fun, keep it safe, and make sure you explain […]
THE RED CORNER NEWS AND UPDATES FROM THE NORTH STAR ACADEMY OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS WEEK OF OCTOBER 21st, 2024 Happy Monday Team! Busy week coming up on the coaching side with both myself and coach Valor out of the country for some international competition. In short, we will be running our regular schedule with […]
MONDAY MINDSET: FINDING YOUR RHYTHM WEEK OF 10/21/24 Breathing is a rhythm. Circulation is a rhythm. The solar cycle is a rhythm. The Earth’s orbit is a rhythm. The universe, some think, also has its own rhythm of expansion and contraction — not unlike the heart or lungs. As above, so below (and within). […]
JUNIOR SAMURAI STRIPE CHALLENGE: FITNESS WEEK OF 10/21/24 This week’s Junior Samurai stripe challenge is Red for Fitness! Students must complete the workout of the week on three separate days in order to receive credit. 50 pushups 50 squats 50 jumping jacks 10 breakfalls (safely!) These exercises can be broken down into manageable sets […]
THE RED CORNER NEWS AND UPDATES FROM THE NORTH STAR ACADEMY OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS WEEK OF OCTOBER 14th, 2024 Happy Monday Team! Saturday saw over twenty of our students participate in our inaugural Level 2 Shorts Test! We kept it simple, but pushed the pace for over 2 hours of non-stop training. In […]
MONDAY MINDSET: SEEDS NOT BORDERS WEEK OF 10/14/24 At some point in our lives, we stop thinking so much about what we’re going to accomplish, but rather what we will leave behind. What is our legacy here on this planet? What was the point, after all? How did we make our mark on this […]
JUNIOR SAMURAI STRIPE CHALLENGE: INITIATIVE WEEK OF 10/14/24 This week’s Junior Samurai stripe challenge is Blue for Initiative! Students must tidy up their room, top to bottom, and receive their parent’s stamp of approval. If their room is already kept tidy (by the way, great job!), students can choose another room in the house […]