Monthly Archives: January 2008

       When it comes to equipment always take your time and buy equiment that suits what you are hoping to accomplish.  Today the world has shrunk do to the immense influence of the internet.  It is now easy to … Continue reading →

      I am very big to point out that IRT is a worldy martial system.  I want every Instinctive Response Training practitioner to experience what is out there around the world to broaden their skills.  There is lot’s of … Continue reading →

     The day was hot and we had been training in Japan for about a week when my good friend Bart Uguccioni said, “hey let’s go do an IRT video shoot today over at a Shinto Shrine.”  With that we boarded … Continue reading →

  Photo taken from the Hard Cover Book: Advanced Wrist Strike Techniques by Brian R. VanCise      Found at: http://www.instinctiveresponsetraining.com/store.html How important is your training partner?  Training partners generally become some of your closets friends and therefore are part of your extended … Continue reading →

Just some Light Full Contact Sparring going on at our World Headquarter’s in Alma, Michigan. There is some Padded Stick Sparring which is a precursor to stepping up and doing Full Contact with Rattan. Padded Stick Sparring brings out aggressiveness, … Continue reading →

  The Author in Texas teaching a Combative Grappling Seminar!         A few year’s ago I was training with a student of advanced skill and he said to me that he wished we practiced the same thing more often during his lessons! (though we … Continue reading →