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Focus

Focus On The Process

Are you like many people that focus constantly on winning and seeing results? In today’s world people care too much about winning and loosing....
Dan Anderson

American Freestyle Karate

"Karate" is a term made up of two Japanese words, "kara" and "te" meaning "empty hand". It is one kind of self defense system...
The Illustrated Canon of Chen Family Taijiquan

A Kaleidoscope of Movement and Feeling

Alan Sims performing the form from Chen Xin's book. The late Bruce Lee was and still is admired by many for his martial arts ability...
Fighters Magazine

Fighters Magazine

Fighters Magazine was the UK's number one for Full Contact Martial Arts magazine. Fighters Magazine is no longer being published.
Valley of the Damned

Valley of the Damned, An Epic Martial Arts Poem By Douglas Laurent

Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Arts Poem By Douglas Laurent is an action-adventure Martial-arts story and is designed as an interactive karate kata,...
Draw Me A Cat

Draw Him A Cat

A rich man, fond of felines, asked a famous Zen ink painter to draw him a cat. The master agreed and asked the man...
Bully Proof Fitness by Chris Casamasa

Bully Proof FITNESS

The battle against bullies and bellies has been going on for generations. Since the 1960’s, the number of children who are considered overweight or...
Dave Kovar's Living Lessons

Living Lessons: Own Your Corner

Years ago, there was a grade school just up the street from our first house. It was located on a rather busy intersection, especially...
Dave Kovar's Living Lessons

Choose Your Words Carefully

As a coach, teacher or parent, you must choose your words carefully as someone's life will be influenced by those words. As a child, I...

Wing Chun Magazine

Wing Chun Magazine, once called Wing Chun Tea House Magazine, is dedicated to Wing Chun in all its forms, spellings, lineages, traditions, innovations and...

The Victor Marx Story

The Victor Marx Story is the true-life story of Victor Marx and it will show how a person can get true freedom from negative...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Home Safe

People who've played baseball, and who now walk up to the plate in life, know how hard it is to hit the ball and...
Masutatsu Oyama Kyokushinkai

Masutatsu Oyama – Kyokushinkai

Kyokushinkai, (key-yoke/shin) the style found by Masutatsu Oyama has enjoyed a growing popularity throughout the world. Sosai Oyama, a student of Goju-Ryu Master So...
Shan Monks

Shan Monks in Exile: Seeking Basic Human Freedoms

The young Shan monk told me that the first time he came to Thailand he came illegally, to study Pali, the ancient Buddhist script....

Muay Thai Chaiya: It’s Nothing Like Muay Thai

I recently discovered Muay Thai Chaiya, which I train with Kru Lek. It is an ancient form of Muay Thai, a codified martial arts...
Dane Harden's Living Lessons

Carrying A Burden

Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening. In that time when monks traveled they did so in pairs and were forbidden...