Kung Fu San Soo
What is Kung Fu San Soo? Kung Fu San Soo is considered, by many, to be the most sophisticated and complete form of martial...
The Budokwai Centennial
January 26, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Budokwai, also known as GK House, by Gunji Koizumi in 1918. The...
Descriptions of Internal Martial Arts
Regarding Falun, if you look at their situation, you have to realize that they are at least partly to blame for their troubles in...
Hapkido
Hapkido means "the way of coordinated power". Hap literally translated means coordination or harmony, Ki is the essence of power and Do means the...
LUA: A Fighting Chance
Secretly, in the dark of night, the ancient warriors practiced the deadly moves involved in the art of self defense called Lua (Kapu Kuialua)....
Grand Master Chae T. Goh’s Moo Do
Grand Master Chae T. Goh was a student and teacher of several martial arts in Japan, Korea and Vietnam before coming to the United...
Krav Maga Not Alone Anymore
Many of you who visit USAdojo.com are Krav Maga practitioners. Lately some of you may have been hearing about other Israeli martial arts systems...
Filipino Warrior Arts: Kali Arnis Eskrima
The recording and documentation of history is an arduous and often difficult undertaking. While reading about history we frequently believe the point of view...
Modern Sport Taekwondo
Modern Sport Taekwondo has developed in the decades since the 1950's and its emphasis is on speed and competition, as in Olympic sparring. Modern sport...
Karate Grappling: Did It Really Exist?
Karate grappling, does it really exist?
In this article I’d like to ask does karate grappling really exist? This is a potentially controversial subject as...
Pa Kua Chang or Ba Kua Chang
Pa Kua Chang (Eight Diagram Palm), is also known as Ba Gua Zhang. It is one of the primary internal systems of the Chinese...
Krav Maga or Q’rabh Magga
Krav Maga or Q'rabh Magga (lit. "contact combat", "close combat" or "full contact") is an eclectic hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel that involves...
Richard Ostrofsky Aikido
Aikido As Political Theory
Time out of mind, martial arts have been practiced by aristocrats and by thugs. Middle-class people, concerned with cost accounting, profit...
Kyudo
Kyudo, which literally means The Way of the Bow, is considered by many to be the purest of all the martial ways. In the...
Burmese Boxing
This hard, offensive style of martial arts is the opposite of the Burmese style of self-defense called Bando. It is also known as Lethwei....
The Evolution of Karate-do
Today there are four main styles of karate-do in Japan and they include Goju-ryu, Shorin-ryu, Shotokan, and Wado-ryu.
Bodhidharma also known as known as "Daruma"...