Southpaw Stance

Variation of basic techniques where the right hand and right foot placed on the front, also known as Mirrored Stance or Inverted Stance.

Sometimes the opponent will attacking us with quick strike from right side and we have no time to set up a normal fighting stance, using Southpaw position is faster technique to counter it.

The training method is same with basic strikes training using normal stance. The only difference is now we do all the basic strikes on mirrored position, like doing Jab Punch using right hand, Hook Punch using right hand, Front Kick using left foot, Scoop Block using right forearm and more.

Trapping

Pinning the opponent's arm to immobilize it then do counter strike.

Intercepting

Mix of offense & defense.

When the opponent gonna hit you, hit first before the opponent hit you.

Tonfa Fighting

Okinawan “T” shaped stick which also used in other Asian countries.

The concept of “T” shaped design is to covering the wrist of Karateka/Kenpoka againts opponent’s blade.

How To Make Martial Art Certificate

Simple, you don’t need to make fancy - difficult design to make martial art certificate.

4 key points of martial art certificate are:

1. Dojo / club logo (letter, banner or bagde).

2. Student name.

3. Date of graduation.

4. Coach / teacher hand signature.

Here my dojo’s certificate template for example:

And here my 3 certificates i got from Kenpo, Kickboxing & Jeet Kune Do for your design references:

How To Choose Martial Art Style For Beginner

For new recruit students who want to learn martial art with me, i always give them all of my training syllabus tutorials & i tell them to research the basic techniques first. Once they know which 1 fighting style they like, then the training can begin.

If they are still confused, I always ask next question: Is there any action hero/idol figure they like from their favorite cartoon/film/game/comic series?

But if they are still confused, my final step is recommending Filipino Panantukan for male new recruits and Hokkien Kuntao for female new recruits:

- They teach easy punches and kicks which can be learned by everyone completely, no high/acrobatic kicks in their training syllabus.

- Very helpful for limited space combat situation where we are attacked at narrow place.

- Very helpful for women when wearing a long dress/tight skirt and can't do high kicks.

- Practical for daily life when we want to do cardio aerobic exercise in a small house.

The only little difference between those 2 arts is Panantukan fighting stance is more masculine (harder, more favored by men) & Kuntao fighting stance is more feminime (softer, more favored by women).