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One of my Legacy Kickboxing students asked me what is better to train, long combinations or short combinations?  the answer is simple, Both! But, you need to understand the purpose of each one of them… Lets look first at the short combinations:  a short combination is typically up to five moves top. A double jab/cross is a [...]
Many people have asked me recently when was the first time I met Joe Lewis… I first met Joe Lewis in the Summer of 1993 at Radford University is Virginia. He was one of the featured Instructors teaching at a camp called RUJKD-93′ , it was an Original Jeet Kune Do three day training camp organized [...]
The King of American Martial Arts has passed away….to the public, Bruce Lee, was the king of Martial Arts. But to the Martial Arts community , Joe Lewis, is the King of Martial Arts. If you notice I wrote “IS” when referring to Joe Lewis and not “was”…in Israel we say : “Only The Forgotten [...]
In this Armour I follow a very simple principle: “Logistics dictate Strategies, Strategies dictate Tactics and Tactics dictate Attributes”  which at the bottom of this principle, Attributes, it connects it to the previous Armour I talked about. In Israel we say “you can’t fight the ocean, but you can fight the fish” , it is related to crowd and [...]
1) Physical Armour  2) Strategic Armour 3) Mental Armour Who ever knows me knows I always think in 3’s , just like there is 3 Points Of Referrences in F.I.G.H.T. for years now my personal training has envolve 3 different divisions of education and training. While they are 3 totally different divisions, they 3 must intergrate [...]