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Gregory Glover

Gregory Glover: Taekwondo

Grandmaster Gregory Glover is a full time professional martial arts instructor with a strong background in Korean martial arts. He is the head coach...
Richard Plowden

Richard Plowden Interview

1. When did you start Martial Arts and why? I began training at 13 years old on October 27, 1973. My brother worked at a...
Dojo Medicine

Youth Participation and Injury Risk in Martial Arts

This clinical report describes important techniques and movement patterns in several types of martial arts and reviews injury risk in martial arts. The martial arts...
Jim Wagner Articles

Jim Wagner Reality-Based

Jim Wagner’s Reality-Based Personal Protection system has created a major shift in the way people are learning self-defense world wide. Black Belt magazine labeled...
Zosia Gorbaty

Zosia Gorbaty

Kyoshi Zosia Gorbaty has been studying martial arts since 1976. She practiced the arts of Nisei Goju Karate and Mas Oyama Karate before joining...
Odette Russell

Odette Russell

Odette Russell is a Grand Master (8th Degree Black Belt) under the SWAM Martial Arts Academy. She is a native New Yorker and is...
Donald Miskel

The Grandmaster Phenomenon

In this article I want to examine the grandmaster phenomenon that has become an epidemic in the western world of martial arts. As always when...
Steven Dowd

Steven Dowd

Punong Guro at Tagapagmana Steven Dowd began his training in Arnis Balite (Aguillon Arnis) in 1974. On January 8, 1991, after the passing of Pundador...
Ron Hagelganz

Ron Hagelganz’s Testimony

I don’t have a wild to mild testimony with some sordid past and deliverance. But God saved me, and that’s worth telling, says Ron...
Mark McGee

Mark McGee Tai Chi Chuan

Mark McGee is a 6th Degree Black Belt in Yon Ch’uan Martial Arts and 15 Animal Kung Fu, a Senior Instructor in Hwa Yu...
Clement Riedner

Clement Riedner Shiho Karano Ryu

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the Whole Armor of God, that you...
Ron Hagelganz

Ron Hagelganz Shiho Karano Ryu

Mr. Ron Hagelganz began his martial arts training in 1980 under the instruction of Sansen Jerry Jensen, a 3rd Degree Black Belt and #7 World...
Frank DeAngelo

Frank DeAngelo Seigido Ryu

Frank DeAngelo began training in the martial arts in 1972 and completed Calvary Chapel Bible School in 1985. He holds rank in numerous arts...
Brian David Robinson

Brian David Robinson

Brian David Robinson is the creator of Kid Kulinaire, a program designed specifically to combat the global childhood obesity epidemic. He was born in...

Steve Cooper: American Kenpo Karate

Steve Cooper has run the Long Beach Internationals for many years, owns SMA Events and has contributed much to sports martial arts. He began his...
Chaim Pe'er

Chaim Peer

Lieutenant Colonel (Res) Chaim Peer is the President and founder of the International Kapap Federation. He is recognized internationally as a Soke - founder...