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Martial Arts Training For Children

Martial Arts Training For Children: A Parents Guide

Introduction At the surface, martial arts training is very attractive to both parents and children alike for many different reasons. With so much time and...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Dear Chuck Norris

A Letter to Chuck Norris Dear Chuck, It was so good to hear from you and even better to hear the good news about a beautiful...
The Essential Book of Martial Arts Kicks

The Essential Book of Martial Arts Kicks

An effectively delivered kick can mean life instead of death in a self-defense situation, and glory rather than shame in the ring. When a...

Gichin Funakoshi Quotes

Okinawan karate master Gichin Funakoshi is the founder of Shotokan Karate-Do and is known as  the "father of modern karate". He, along with other Okinawan karate masters, introduced...
Javed Khan's Khan-Do-kwan

Birth Of A New Martial Art

MUMBAI: The city of Mumbai knew Javed Khan as a leading exponent of taekwondo. Today he is known as the originator of a new...
Sensei Ryan Speaks Out

Sensei Ryan at Martial Arts Supershow 2015

Sensei Ryan and all the instructors at Champion Martial Arts got to visit the beautiful, (but insanely hot) Las Vegas, Nevada for the massive...
The Art of the Japanese Sword: As Taught by the Experts

The Art of the Japanese Sword As Taught by the Experts

The more than thousand-year-old art of sword making in Japan is one of the world's most brilliant metalworking traditions. In danger of being lost...
Judo Memories Jigoro Kano

Judo Memoirs of Jigoro Kano

In 1882, Kano opened his Kodokan dojo in Tokyo, where he taught jujutsu to his first class of nine students. His choice of the...
Dave Kovar's Living Lessons

What Martial Arts Training Does For People

I am currently on my way home from a four day, back-to-back seminar tour. On Thursday, I did a Business Boot Camp in Denver....
Martial Arts Styles

Understanding Martial Arts

There are many ways in which martial arts styles can be divided. Here are a few "defining" terms used when discussing martial arts. Most...

Mitchell Eli On Lua

An in depth conversation with Mitchell Eli, a master of the ancient Hawaiian martial art of Lua. https://youtu.be/HB0Re_5kO54 https://youtu.be/ryd6gIkqjLI https://youtu.be/gC8BTG5HAt0 https://youtu.be/LmqhU1FWng4
Reality-Based Personal Protection

Jim Wagner’s Reality-Based Personal Protection System

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...
Chi

A Practical Definition Of Chi

As a viable part of the martial artist's arsenal, chi, and specifically noncontact chi, is dubious, at best--at least as long as its proponents...
Shotokan Style of Martial Arts

Shotokan

The term Shotokan was derived from Gichin Funakoshi's first official dojo built in 1936 at Mejiro. The dojo was destroyed in 1945 by allied...
Leave your ego at the door

The Most Difficult Journey

Just a few years ago a group of Krav Maga practitioner's tried to gain market-share with the only skill they knew, slander. They tried...
Sensei The Origin of the Word

Sensei – The Origin and Meaning Word

In various martial arts there are different names for the titles of some master ranks In the following text I am going to mention...