Sifu John Cogan

Sifu John Cogan

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Internal Power for Martial Artists 40+
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Photos from Sifu John Cogan's post 12/07/2026

Force and power feel similar - but they're opposites.

Force pushes. It comes from muscle, it clashes, and it runs out fast. Power flows. It comes from a relaxed, connected body, it slides through, and it lasts all day. The man using force gasses out. The man using power has barely started.

Especially past 40 - you don't need more force. You need power.

Stop forcing.

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Photos from Sifu John Cogan's post 11/07/2026

A unified body is a lever. A tense one is just heavy.

Take real pressure into your structure and let it open up - don't brace, expand. Then keep that exact feeling as you move. When the whole frame stays connected, a tiny turn of one joint becomes a giant lever and your partner has to deal with all of you at once.

Tense one part and it gets hard. Unify and it's effortless.

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11/07/2026

This is one of the biggest shifts in training: stop trying to physically push everything. Real power starts in the center. You infuse it with spirit, love, peace, or joy, expand it through the system, and then direct it with intent. The body follows the intent. The energy moves before the force. When you stop pushing and start directing, the power becomes cleaner, stronger, and far less effortful. Comment POWER if you want help moving from physical pushing to focused intent.

Photos from Sifu John Cogan's post 10/07/2026

He saw Ip Man do the impossible - and asked how.

He got the tips, but then he did the work: trained day and night until he didn't just match Ip Man, he surpassed him. They called him the king of Siu Nim Tao.

His dying wish? Find a faster, better way to pass this power on - because he never fully cracked how to teach it. That quest is what I've carried ever since.

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10/07/2026

When you give love, you experience it first. That is the part most people miss. You do not need to wait for love, joy, or kindness to come back before you receive something. The moment you genuinely intend to give, that quality is already alive inside you. This is why giving is powerful. It changes your state immediately and opens the heart from the inside out. Comment POWER if you want to build power through giving, not force.

10/07/2026

This is a subtle but powerful lesson: the movement is not just about where the arm goes, but where the whole structure is directed. If the arm loses the target, the structure becomes easier to collapse. The target has to stay present through the whole movement, physically at first and energetically as the skill develops. Shape gives the movement form. Targeting gives it power. Comment POWER if you want help keeping the target through the movement.

10/07/2026

This lesson is a great reminder that power is not only about strength. It is about focus. When you aim at one small point, you are not really targeting their balance. You are only touching the surface. But when you sense your centre, find the right feeling quality, aim your spine through their spine, and focus toward the back of their centre, the whole movement changes. The difference is not more force. It is a better target. Power plane, not power triangle. Comment POWER if you want help aiming through the centre.

Photos from Sifu John Cogan's post 09/07/2026

There are two halves to real power: become stronger, and make your opponent weaker.

Where jiu-jitsu takes a dominant position, we do it differently - we attack the spine so the body tenses. And a tense body is a weak body. Lock up their structure and they can't generate force or recover their balance.

More power. Weaker opponent. That's the whole game.

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09/07/2026

Your past is not pushing you forward. Your future is pulling you. The question is: what future are you aiming at? If you keep projecting old fear, old pain, and old identity forward, life keeps pulling you into the same patterns. But when your intent changes, your direction changes. The body follows the aim. Life follows the projection.

Comment POWER if you want help aiming your future instead of repeating your past.

Photos from Sifu John Cogan's post 08/07/2026

Most people try to move their body first. That's why it feels so heavy.

The real order is spirit, then mind, then energy body, then physical body. Seek that first. When you give the command to your energy body, the physical stops tightening up and simply follows - lighter, faster, harder to stop.

Truth is powerful because it aligns with what's actually happening.

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