Systems and Styles

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Kuntaw, Ancient Filipino Martial Art

Kuntaw is an ancient art of native Filipino hand and foot fighting using both hard and soft techniques. It is one of the oldest self-defense...
Cuong Nhu

Vietnamese Style of Cuong Nhu

Cuong Nhu is a Vietnamese style of Karate. It's name comes from the Vietnamese phrase for yin and yang because it combines both hard...

Bruce Lees Jeet Kune Do – The Art of Fighting Without Fighting

The bully poses the question, “What style are you? “And Bruce responds, “The art of fighting without fighting.” The bully repeats the response like...
Bersilat

Bersilat

Bersilat means "to do fighting" and this Malaysian martial art is similar to Pentjak Silat, an Indonesian martial art, which it is thought to...
Muay Thai

Muay Thai Fighting History

The art of Thai boxing is a self-defense technique that is as old as Thailand itself.  Muay Thai fighting is a branch of knowledge, which...
Kosho Ryu

Kosho Ryu

Kosho Ryu is an ancient art form founded in about 1245 AD by a monk named Bosatsu. Legend has it that Bosatsu meditated under...
Qwan Ki Do

Qwan Ki Do

Qwan Ki do literally means "the way of the fist and the energy."  This Vietnamese martial art is similar to Karate. It was founded...
Jim Harrison of American Bushidokan

American Bushidokan

In the late 1960's Jim Harrison founded the first Bushidokan school in Kansas City, Kansas. Harrison had studied judo and was top in his league....
Gatka Martial Arts

About Gatka

Gatka is commonly referred to as an India Martial art. Specifically Gatka refers to the martial art used by the of northern India. Actually...
Grand Master San Kim Sean

San Kim Sean Shares Khmer Bokator

Grand Master San Kim Sean shares about Khmer Bokator, The Ancient Form of Cambodian Martial Arts. “We can fight standing up.” Explained San Kim Sean,...
History of Judo

History of Judo in America

The first known meeting of Kodokan judo and any American occurred in 1879, when President U.S. Grant was in Japan on a state visit...
Seifukujutsu Art of Healing

Seifukujutsu Art of Healing

Seifukujutsu is the art of healing developed and propagated in Japan as much as 1200 to 1600 years ago. The origins of the art...

RMCAT Rocky Mountain Combat Applications Training

What RMCAT is instructing is effective and applied self defense for today's world. You can do far more to protect yourself than you may...
Donald Miskel

Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do’s Effect On Martial Arts

Before I embark on this one sided discussion let me do a disclaimer. I am not trying to send you into communication overload with...
Shaolin Kenpo

Shaolin Kenpo: A Modern Style With A Traditional Influence

By Jane Hallander - Inside Kung Fu Magazine ~ Kenpo, sometimes known as "kenpo karate" or "Chinese kenpo karate," has developed into one of...
Doce Pares

Doce Pares

Doce Pares is actually the conglomeration of various styles that each founding Master brought into the organization when it was formed in 1932. There...