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Hello Everyone,
Thank you for stopping by to our school’s website! A lot of things changing here so you really need to stay in touch, so join our free newsletter that is always packed with fantastic information regarding reality based training methods, physical conditioning, latest school updates, and even a few special free gifts from time to time!
As you review this site and newsletters, let me know your feedback, what you would like to see and tools to help you grow as a combative martial artist.
Gumagalang(respectfully)
Sensei/Guro Steve Lefebvre
1/1/2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Well we made it through another year! It seemed to almost fly by, but of course it didn’t, but with all the activity with the family, training, etc. the time does go by quickly! So to kick off to 2010 here is a free gift for you a special report on Goal setting for 2010. http://www.bujinkandojo.net/adobedocs/Lifeskills101.doc
I hope you enjoy and put it into practice.
5 Reasons to keep training…….(as if you really needed them)
1) Being able to protect yourself and loved ones if the situation arises.
2) Getting in and staying in shape.
3) Reducing your daily stress!
4) Meeting and training with new people.
5) Camaraderie with the people you train with.
One of our regular components to our workouts is the Man Maker. The following video is the first version that gets introduced in our workout cycles.
Train Hard, Have fun and Stay Safe!
Sensei/Guro Steve Lefebvre
Hello Again Everyone!
First and foremost MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Enjoy the holidays, have fun, eat well and stay safe. Thank you for all the support, posts on the articles, great feedback on the newsletter, and awesome training all around! 2009 was an awesome year and wait till you see what is coming up in 2010!
Train Hard, Stay Safe, and have some fun along the way!
Guro/Sensei Steve Lefebvre
After the Turkey!
Hi Everyone,
As promised a little After the Turkey surprise for you! This workout will help burn off a few calories for you as well as to help put your conditioning up a notch. For those of you on the newsletter, occasionally I put out a quick workout that you can use to spice up your routine training regime. Just a quick note to say join the newsletter if you haven’t done so yet. In the upcoming time for this year you will be glad you did with a few special gifts and opportunities coming through its publication.
Anyway have fun with the workout!
(3 sets)
(30 seconds each exercise no breaks between exercises, 1min rest between sets)
Jumping Jacks, shuffle splits, pushups, chinees
(3 sets of the complex 2 mins rest between sets)
10 Reverse Pull ups (rings)
10 Push ups (rings)
30 Squats
30 Sit ups
5 Turkish Get ups (L&R)
(2 min break)
20Alternating ball push ups
5 Turkish Get ups (L&R)
10 Chinups (palm in)
10 Over and Unders
Happy Thanksgiving!
I wanted to take a moment and personally thank all of my students, friends and followers of this website! This has been a great year, training, teaching and just having fun. I hope each of you has an excellent day with your families and friends, and stay tuned for a little surprise coming out this weekend to help cope with the extra turkey and food caloies we will be taking in!
Have a great day!
Sensei/Guro Steve Lefebvre
Happy Halloween Everyone!
35 years later…
Well on October 27th I reached another year in my martial arts and physical conditioning training, 35 years of straight out training! I can’t say when I first got interested in the martial arts, but I can remember at a 4th grade book fair picking up Bruce Tegner’s book on Jujutsu. One of school friends and I would practice the moves in the back of the playground everyday at recess , well until the teachers decided it wasn’t too safe to be taking each other down on the pavement!
It has been a long run training and I have been extremely lucky to have been able to meet, discuss and train with masters from a variety of styles over the years, and for that I thank them all for sharing with me.
A few things I have learned along the way:
1) Never stop learning, everyone can offer something you can add to your training repertoire.
2) Never stop training. Once you stop, it is very difficult to get the momentum back, life will get in the way and you will fall off the training path.
3) Step outside your box. If you are a traditional practitioner go try a modern combative art, if you are a Filipino practitioner go seek out a boxing instructor and so on and so on. Expand your knowledge (see #1)
4) There is no easy way to mastery. The simplest path is consistent hard physical training. It could be one on one sparring and banging sessions, or hitting the weights with aggressive intent, whichever endeavor you are chasing serious hard training sessions have to be a regular part of you r training regimen.
5) Your worst enemy is yourself. This one is the hardest one for newbies and old timers alike, because it violates the EGO! Your self conscious mind is always there telling you how good or bad you are, but understanding and gaining mastery over your thought patterns and directing them to a particular success is extremely difficult. Why do think not everyone achieves high levels of skill or success in life? So, be honest and self reflective know thyself!
Alright, so here are 5 tips from a long time player in the world of the martial arts and physical conditioning (oh yeah I have a lot more but those will come out later in one of my published books (stay tuned for those releases). Along the training path, I have had my ups and downs, bruises and bruised ego, but I have persevered and kept going. So in a few minutes, I am off to train do some solo training, stretching, conditioning etc, tomorrow I will be training with students and friends, Sunday well maybe I might need to heal up a bit!! But I think you are getting my point keep training and moving forward.
Gumagalang
Guro Steve Lefebvre
5/22/09
Hi everyone!!
Man it has been crazy ass busy! After a major laptop crash, I have had to start rebuilding a lot of ongoing project work, but all that aside get ready for another great newsletter coming your way this coming week.
As I said in my earlier posts and newsletter updates I have been working on an overhaul of the member’s website and with this will be a host of new instructional videos!! I have received at least 20 + requests for more Filipino Martial Arts training clips, as well as Combative Concepts Grappling and even Ninjutsu related material….so get ready the countdown is beginning for the first phase June 1st!!
I would like to take a moment and say thanks to all the new members who have joined the newsletter. In the last 2 weeks 15 new members have jumped on and have started requesting more information, so yes this upcoming issue will be awesome!
Guro Steve L.
4/24/09
Haven’t signed up yet for our free Monthly Newsletter?? Why not?? A special issue is on deck to be released very, very soon and will be covering Conditioning Workouts and Nutrition. What the hell try it out and see what you can gain from being a member of the newsletter!
Gumagalang
Guro Steve L.
4/11/09
A few weeks ago, I had the great opportunity to head over and teach a few segments at Terry Dow’s Martial Arts Symposium and I have to say it was fantastic. First a huge thank you to Sensei Terry for throwing this event again and inviting me to teach a few sessions. Second, it was awesome to watch such talented young martial artists to be working so hard with all of us “old grizzled veterans”! Catching up with past friends and masters such as Bill Wallace, Michael DePasquale, Tony Annessei, Dave Lamattina etc. etc. , never mind the many, many new friends I made at this event. Great times!!
Actually I was able to teach two segments: the first focused on grappling (Catch, Shooto, and Silat) the second segment was close quarter stick fighting. I would like to thank Bryan A.(for letting me punch him in the face..) and Todd S, for twisting him into a pretzel, as well as all those who came over and trained. Lots of open minds in my group and they asked tons of questions, filmed techniques and kept pushing for more! Both sessions were well received and definitely opened some eyes as to new ideas to add to their training. I hope to keep attending this event each year as it always excites and motivates me to keep on training and learning new things. (which leads into the next article)
Lots of great material in this issue and I hope you enjoy it. Keep the feedback coming in to me as it stimulates the ideas for upcoming newsletters, videos, and articles, so sit back and keep on reading. For those of you who received this quick brief as part of the last newsletter, get ready as the next issue will be packed with training information and GPP routines!
Guro Steve Lefebvre
3/8/09
Hey There Everyone,
A few weeks back I was training at Pamana Tuhon Sayoc’s home, and Tuhon Felix Cortes pointed me to his new website www.TuhonFelix.com you definitely want to check out his video clips! Here are a few for you to look at, the last one was back a few years ago at my school in Manchester.
Also, I will be teaching at Terry Dow’s upcoming seminar event at the end of the month. It will be a great time with lot’s of notable martial artists coming together.
More details will be coming but if you want more information contact me at airyu@hotmail.com.
Guro Steve
