Brian Sensei

Brian is a life-long martial artist, athlete, and serial entrepreneur. He teaches martial arts and self defense to adult and teen students in San Diego, at the Full Potential Martial Arts dojo in Carmel Valley.

Announcement: Lake Arrowhead Martial Arts Camp, April 2014

The 6th annual Lake Arrowhead Spring Training will take place place April 24-27, 2014 at lake Arrowhead, and will include karate, tai-chi, qigong, kobudo, yoga and meditation. This is an excellent sleep-away camp, packed with trainings, lectures and opportunities to make friends in the martial arts community. Camp Theme: Connect, Collaborate, Unfurl   When: Thursday

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Itosu Anko - father of modern day karate

Pinan Kata — History and Background

Recently, we started learning the karate kata Pinan Nidan at the San Diego dojo. Kata, which in Japanese literally means “form”, are a set of choreographed movement patterns, that can be practiced solo or in groups. At a basic physical level, kata help in drilling movement patterns into “muscle memory” – patterns that are useful

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Muscle Fiber Structure

Stretching and Flexibility in Martial Arts: Theory and Techniques

In martial arts training we often touch on the topic of flexibility. Flexibility, or, as I prefer to call it, limberness, allows us to maintain a good range of motion for each joint or joints. When we are limber, our health and quality of life is enhanced. Likewise, loss of flexibility can dispose us to

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Master of Perception by Jan Diepersloot

Internal Martial Arts — Masters of Perception

Many martial artists like to train in both external and internal aspects of their martial art — be it Karate, Tai-Chi, Kuntau-Silat or another martial art — we see them in our San Diego martial arts studio all the time. This is because early in one’s training, it is much faster to observe progress in

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