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- So maybe you're not so lucky,
you always have a sifu teaching you one on one.
One of the most common questions that we get
from our channel is, you know, Dan, Sifu Octavio,
I'm training on my own, there's no dojo in my school,
I don't have a training buddy.
How can I practice and learn martial art
from my home, by myself, what do I do?
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So let me give you three tips today.
Tip number one, I think the biggest problem is
training on your own is, you don't get feedback
from a instructor, right?
So you have to kind of learn how to self-correct.
So watching videos, and that's why
we make these videos for you, so you can follow along,
you can want to watch it multiple times to learn the move,
and then to make sure you do the move correctly.
The first thing what you can do is,
sSfu, practice in front of the mirror, correct?
- Yeah, a mirror's a great way to start.
I mean if you don't know how you're
structurally moving your body, you gotta
especially if you're watching our videos
and you go in and you just scroll through,
you can see it, try to imitate it,
put the mirror in front of you
and put the video up and just follow along.
- Yes. - Yeah.
And that's a great way and that's why
we're releasing videos is for you to learn.
But, I mean, you won't get the feedback, you're right.
Just what you were saying,
but the mirror is a great way to start.
- The mirror it's, if you watch it,
if you are kind of critical, right?
Don't no delusional don't you're better than you think,
but actually look in the mirror
look at your stance, look at your center line,
okay, this is off.
Or, is my elbow in or all these things,
you will teach you a lot.
So I think practice in front of the mirror,
that's tip number one.
Number two is, if you don't have a training buddy
and you don't have someone to,
there's someone to hold the pad or to,
you hit something, is to get a piece of equipment.
Very often, I mean Sifu I think is the same way,
we train on our own, we don't always have training buddy.
Get some kind of a heavy bag or get a Bob, right?
Get a dummy or a wooden dummy.
Whatever it is to practice, right?
- The Bob I think is probably best.
The heavy bag is quite heavy if you're hitting it wrong,
you might end up hurting your wrist.
That's why it's probably good to get
the gloves with the strap,
that way you can brace that wrist.
And because if you're throwing full hard on punch,
and you don't know how much you're delivering,
you can practically crack your wrist,
or hurt your shoulder or do something incorrectly.
- Yeah, yeah.
- So the BOB actually kind of gives you a little bit more...
- And it's got the head movement,
and you can, it feels a little bit more like real, right?
- Something with springs in it,
yeah I think that'd be best for you.
But yeah about the only thing I can really
recommend if you're doing this on your own.
- You know you are an obsessive martial artist when you
all kinds of like weird equipments at home
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You hang a piece of paper, you got like a ball here hanging
and you're hitting, right?
- Right, right.
- That's kind of what happens and you're got something
in your back yard like a the sandbag.
That's when you know a serious martial artist, right?
All kinds of stuff.
You know, you go to Home Depot,
you try and find a iron bar thing to hit your forearm with.
- Right right.
- Yeah so, that's the second tip,
practice, get some equipment.
Start with just one or two,
you don't need to go crazy with equipment.
And the third thing is, anyone can work on,
which is something I learned from Sifu it's,
you work on your physical ability, right?
Doing the pushup.
'Cause the first time I met Sifu is,
Sifu how do I develop explosive power?
'Cause I was expecting some, oh this is gonna be good.
Some like earth shattering answer.
You know what he said?
Pushup.
Dan, do some pushup.
I said, what?
Yup.
And then he showed me like,
10 different ways of doing a pushup.
I said, okay
(laughing).
But that's it, right Sifu?
- You have to practice yourself.
Biggest suggestion I can give everybody out there
especially if you're trying to follow Bruce Lee.
I know everybody is inspired by him
and they want to do exactly what he did.
To be honest with you,
he was an entirely different individual.
You're gonna be someone different.
You're gonna have to work on yourself first.
And the basics are the pushups, the squats...
- Actually the sprinting.
- The sprinting, the running.
Especially if you're young, run.
Do all kinds of activity stuff.
The great players like, I'd say football in Europe
or soccer here in the US.
It's, those guys are very physically athletic.
Watch the way you're training too because
if you over train, that's when you start
to kill your adrenals. - Yeah.
- So you have to watch what you eat,
you have to watch how you're training,
how much time you're spending on it.
There's all kinds of training regimens
that we can provide at a future date.
But again, biggest suggestion is to start small.
Don't go in there and start thinking,
oh alright, I'm going to be able to split this paper
hold on, I'm gonna practice this until I split this paper.
It has nothing to do with that,
it's about how much focus and intent you have
through the entire training process.
- Yeah, and that gives you if you say,
oh I got to split that piece of paper,
it gives you a false sense of confidence, right?
But at the end of day, best,
you want to have some kind of training buddy
and you want to have some kind of sifu.
Nothing can replace that.
We're giving your three tips where
you absolutely cannot find an instructor in your town,
and you cannot always travel,
you maybe don't have that privilege.
Start somewhere, anywhere. - Yeah
- When you get to the point where you could
definitely find an instructor, that's the best way to go.
Also make sure you check out Sifu's,
I'll put a link at the bottom.
Then you will learn from him and there are
other virtual training.
Do that,
start with that, no excuse.
It's not, oh I cannot find a school so I don't train.
That's not avoiding skills, right?
So you can start something today.
- Yeah
- And make to go watch our other JKD videos.
We have a lot of videos.
Watch, practice in front of mirror,
Make sure you also find couple pieces of equipment,
and then train, get fit.
See with me, why I'm busy, I've got running businesses
But I still gotta put in the time
and you gotta train.