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My training philosophy is simple: “If I don’t train hard, I will get hit. If I train hard, I won’t.” My training motivation is even simpler: “I don’t like to get hit.”

I love the ring because it is in the ring that you can put to the test all the skills that you have been training in for days, weeks, months, or years! The ring also doesn’t lie and lull the martial artist into a false sense of security. One will immediately know whether a technique or conditioning routine is working, thanks to the immediate feedback from one’s opponent.

I’ve loved martial arts ever since I can remember and have always been fascinated by how a smaller person could physically overcome a larger person.

Over the years, I’ve found the age-old philosophy of “practice makes perfect” still holds true to a certain extent, but more important, “correct practice makes perfect.” Oftentimes, hardcore martial artists will practice one technique over and over in the air, without practicing it against the flesh and developing the proper “feel” of the technique. Without the proper “feel” or “contact” of the practiced technique, a martial artist cannot develop the true feeling of the technique. Consequently, when the incorrectly practiced technique is used in actual full-contact combat, many times it falls short of the martial artist’s expectation.