Tom Harvey Training

One of the great tasks in training is to come to terms with fear. Any path that doesn’t frighten you isn’t worth its salt. As you train and refine techniques, strategies, tactics, applications and physical fitness, you are afforded another great opportunity which is to face yourself. You may discover that you have a lot [...]

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Recently Sifu (Tom Harvey) put out a few of his doodles on facebook. Because of this we had a number of requests to make them into t-shirts. I’ve talked him into released two as a limited addition. One from the ‘The Simple Warrior‘ line called the ‘Warrior’s Cologne‘ with a tag line of ‘Sweat is [...]

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It’s important in life and training to take a moment to experience what is happening, to take a mental note and realize this moment is passing. As our children grow there is a small transition that occurs that we may or may not notice. When they are young we pick them up and carry them [...]

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In order to play on the edge of No-Man’s Land (NML) there are two key types of tempo you must keep in mind, the first is offensive tempo and the second is defensive tempo. Think of No-Man’s Land (NML) as a bubble of ‘time‘ in relation to the space between you and your opponent that [...]

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THT Warriors working on angling with powerline control. Striking speed is important and so is reducing your striking interval BUT don’t waste your strikes, every shot should have power. Remember power is the product of speed and strength applied to a specific dynamic movement. Keep in mind one perfectly timed strike with power is all [...]

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  My Daughter working the bars..   It’s not that uncommon to hear people talk about wanting to do something or what they could have been ‘IF’, but due to whatever reason were unwilling to step up to do it. They may only want to set-up to the pieces that are comfortable, instead staying within [...]

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I was watching this show on the History channel related to the oldest known temple. The Göbekli Tepe temple, located in modern day Turkey, was built some 12,000 years ago (tenth and ninth millennia BCE) which is 7,000 years before the Great Pyramids and more than 6,000 years before the prehistoric site of Stonehenge. To put this [...]

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One of the first questions I get asked regarding nutrition is almost always surrounding supplements. Interesting enough my most dedicated athletes prefer to discuss a specific nutrition topic that will: Help you gain weight Help you cut down Increase your energy Has a ‘drug-like‘ effect regarding strength gains Drum-roll please!! The topic they like to [...]

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