A Little Workout Fun at the Dojo

Workout fun for Seniors

Now is the right time to consider your fitness and how you could learn a safe form of self-defense. Even more important, you deserve to bring a little workout fun back into your life; you deserve the American Cane System Dojo. The Dojo Mark Shuey, founder of The American Cane System offers an entire range…

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Cane Chi Uses Canes to Build Strength

Cane Chi using Cane for strength

Canes as strength building device Pick up your cane!  Seniors who hated the idea of using the cane as a mobility device have discovered a way to own it!  By using the cane in Cane Chi and Cane Fu exercises, students of The American Cane System are gaining health and mobility.  Every day, Grandmaster Mark…

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First, Full Yogic Breath

full yogic breath

Cane Fu, But First, Breathe Before you kick, before you learn defensive arcs with your cane, learn to breathe.  “Of course I’m breathing; I’m alive,” you react.  We’re not talking about the light breathing of regular living.   We’re talking about the kind of breathing that strengthens your lungs and gets the toxins out.  Full yogic…

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New Year’s Resolutions or Not

American Cane System New Year's Resolution

Fun New Year Facts Here’s a fun New Year’s Fact for you: Forty-five percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. The top resolutions are lose weight, get organized, spend less, save more, stay fit and healthy, and quit smoking.  Whew!  No wonder a quarter of those making resolutions give up on them by the second week…

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Healthy for the Holidays

healthy for the holidays

Hanukkah is past and Christmas is just around the corner. Though this is usually a wonderful time of year for friends and family to gather, there are additional health risks during the Christmas season.  Some are accidents, but others are consequences of physical and emotional stress.  There are holiday health risks, but you can help…

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Advancing Level by Level in The American Cane System

The American Cane System is an internationally recognized martial arts system which teaches the students self-defense techniques with the cane as major tool.  If you don’t use a cane, it’s ok, since empty handed techniques are taught as well.  Students in the American Cane System are advancing level by level, belt by belt.  If you…

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