Your Wing Chun Criticisms Are NOT Unique to Wing Chun

September 29, 2021 Steve Grogan 8

Introduction Wing Chun Kung Fu is a well-known southern Chinese martial arts style, although it’s not popular for the reasons its practitioners would like. Simply put: it’s known as being ineffective, impractical, unrealistic, useless, etc. Pull up any Wing Chun video on YouTube. You will find endless comments from “keyboard [Read More]

Ukemi What is it Good For?

September 29, 2021 Dane Manson 0

Part 1 Disclaimer As is my custom I will lay a caveat that these are my thoughts and opinions. I have asked around for others’ input as I feel that this is a broad and complex area of inquiry, however it will have all been tied together by my brain [Read More]

My Martial Arts Pet Peeve

September 28, 2021 Jason Brick 1

Can we talk for a minute about something that really bothers me in the martial arts? I’m going to come off super-judgy talking about this pet peeve, but that’s okay. Because this is important, or at least important to me. This is true of every self-protection concept I’ve ever come [Read More]

Review of The Ankō Itosu Biography

September 13, 2021 Jaredd Wilson 0

Title: The Ankō Itosu Biography (The Man, The Master, The Myth) Author: Thomas Feldmann Publisher: Lulu Publish Date: 2021 Pages: 448 Cover Price: $55.41 ISBN: 978-1-008-98617-6 Ankō Itosu is one of those names that you continuously hear if you study or research Japanese or Okinawan martial arts. However, to me [Read More]

puzzle pieces

Putting Puzzle Pieces Together

September 10, 2021 Jeremy Lesniak 0

Last year, at the height of lockdowns, I was starved for martial arts training. Much of my time as a martial artist is already cerebral – podcast, business, etc. – but pre-pandemic, I still had physical outlets. Then… whoosh. Gone. And I was left only with the mental portion. Or, [Read More]

Juggling for the Martial Arts: Supercharge Your Skills

September 9, 2021 Andrew Zerling 5

Introduction Metal weapons clashed violently together in combat. On the Great Wall of China, over two thousand years ago, ancient Chinese warriors were defending their country against brutal nomadic invaders. Warriors of the past greatly relied on their mind-body skills and not fancy technology. In fact, some ancient Chinese warriors [Read More]

Adversity and injury

The Harder We Fall

September 8, 2021 Donivan Blair 0

Discipline, hard work, integrity spring to mind when you think of martial arts. We have been inundated with images of karateka, judoka and juijiteiro fighting adversity with sweat dripping from their body, making their Gi wet from practice, diligent in their quest for perfection. I think of wrapped fingers, bloody [Read More]

When the Athlete Became a Fighter  

September 7, 2021 Raz Chen 0

As I mentioned in the introduction, before I was in Krav Maga, I started out as an athlete. Before I was a year old, I was already running, and by the age of thirteen, I was studying capoeira and playing soccer. I may have been smaller than the other kids, [Read More]

Always respect others

Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

September 6, 2021 Donivan Blair 1

Learning to Live… Again When Steven Tyler yelled in 1976 that he was back in the proverbial saddle it was without any inclination what the year 2020 was going to have in store and how hard it would be to just jump back on in ‘21. I have heard the [Read More]