🔥 NEW COURSE DROP 🔥Double Stick – Foundations to Flow This course is about doing double stick right. We build strong fundamentals first — grip, structure, striking lines — then show you how real flow comes from solid mechanics, not memorised patterns. ✔️ Less confusion✔️ Better coordination✔️ Smoother, more functional movement If double stick has ever felt awkward or messy, this will change that. ⚔️ Foundations first. Flow follows.

The last few days I’ve been dealing with sciatica — sharp pain running from my lower back down my leg. Not the “oh that’s uncomfortable” kind… the kind that reminds you how much you take movement for granted. As someone who trains, coaches, and preaches consistency, this stuff is humbling. But it’s also a reminder of a few important things: • Training isn’t about being invincible • Rest and rehab are part of the process • Listening to your body is a skill, not a weakness I’m still moving. Still showing up. Just adapting — mobility work, gentle movement, breathing, and patience (the hardest part 😅). If you’re dealing with pain, setbacks, or frustration right now — you’re not broken. You’re just in a different phase of the journey. Forge isn’t just built in the hard rounds… It’s built in how you respond when things don’t go to plan. 🔥

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Anxiety doesn’t just feel uncomfortable—it shuts systems down. When the nervous system is overloaded, learning stops. Decision-making narrows. Creativity disappears. What remains is survival mode. This is why anxious minds struggle to absorb information or make clear choices—not because of weakness, but because biology has taken over. One of the most misunderstood distinctions in growth work is the difference between thinking about feelings and actually feeling them. Analysis alone keeps emotion trapped in the mind. Feeling—safely, consciously—allows emotion to move through the body and resolve. This is where short, consistent mindfulness practices matter. Not long retreats. Not perfect silence. Just daily reps of awareness. These practices gently rewire the nervous system, teaching it that it’s safe to be present again. Meditation isn’t about bliss, emptiness, or getting it “right.” It’s about noticing what’s here without resisting it. Regulation comes before revelation. This applies everywhere—not just on the cushion. Teachers, leaders, parents, and children all benefit from learning how to regulate emotions in real time. Calm is contagious. So is chaos. Much of anxiety traces back to unresolved trauma, chronic stress, and emotional suppression. What’s unexpressed doesn’t disappear—it accumulates. That’s why true growth requires both waking up (awareness, insight, perspective) and waking down (embodiment, emotional integration, grounded presence). One without the other creates imbalance. Real growth lives in the nervous system— not just the mind. - retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine Hooyah!