Kobudo: Traditional Okinawan Weapons
Kobudo literally means "ancient martial ways". In the karate world, it generally refers to those traditional Okinawan weapons whose history and practice has been...
Kuntao Way of the Fist
Kuntao is often translated "way of the fist", but literally it means fighting art. It is a Hokkien term for martial arts created by...
Hwa Rang Do: The Way of the Flower of Manhood
One of the oldest Korean arts of combat. Hwa rang do means "the way of the flower of manhood," since it was originally taught...
Ninjutsu
By Toshitsugu Takamatsu, 33th Soke of the Togakure Ryu ~ "Toshitsugu Takamatsu was known as Moko No Tora (Mongolian Tiger). Once while in the...
Filipino Full Contact Stickfighting
Filipino Full Contact Stickfighting is an exciting martial art and sport where two superb Eskramadors /Arnisadors square off to battle with one or two...
Amazing Muay Thai Camp in a Village in Krabi
“Muay” means to “Fight” and “Thai” is Thailand and “Muay Thai” comes from “Muay Boran” which is Thailand’s ancient fighting defense system that has...
Lua
"Lua is a type of hand-to-hand fighting that emphasizes moves that break and dislocate bones (in Hawaiian "hakihaki"). It also uses hand catches and traps...
Kun Khmer or Pradal Serey
Kun Khmer or Pradal Serey in Khmer English stands for Free Boxing or Khmer Boxing. It is one of the Khmer names for the...
Aikido Principles
You can't learn much about aikido just by reading. Many hours of practice and experiment are needed before the ideas presented here will have...
Wado-Ryu Karate
The Wado-Ryu (Way of Peace) school of karate, was founded in 1931 by the late Grand Master Hironori Otsuka (1892-1982).
Otsuka Sensei was already an...
Inside the Martial Arts of the Israeli Military
Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network claimed that they brought down the World Trade Center towers and punched a hole into the Pentagon on...
Shudokan Karate
With the advent of Gichin Funakoshi's introduction of Okinawan Karate to Japan in the early 1920's, the popularity of karate began to grow. Soon,...
Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport in which two people wearing protective gloves throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in...
Cung Le Brings Sanshou into the Cage
It was the shot heard around the world. Late in the third round of the Strikeforce Middleweight Championship title bout, Cung Le delivered a...
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...
Israeli Martial Arts – A Look Into History
Google the term Israeli martial arts and you get over 1.7 million pages.
A quick glance at the Wikipedia entry will reveal two short lines...
