Shime Waza – The Techniques of Constriction
Basic Concepts
The art of karate is a brutally effective method of self-defense characterized by grabbing, squeezing, pressing, twisting, bending, leveraging, breaking, and chokes and...
Life In A Day – A Survival Attitude
No matter how much training you have, without a survival attitude, you may not survive an attack.
She was a hard working woman, and a...
Combat Triage: General Conditioning: Hips, Shoulders, Neck, Quads
3 Mixed Stretches for MMA
Sometimes it just feels great to lay on the floor and stretch. Particularly if your body is very tight from...
A Karate Chop Offers Proof of the Power of Physics
A karate chop, or shuto strike, is one of the few things in life that offers visceral proof of the power of physics. If you are untrained in the martial arts and you karate chop a brick, you may break a finger or worse. But if you karate chop that brick with the proper force, momentum, and positioning, you’ll break the brick instead. “Amazingly, there are no tricks involved,” says Michael Feld, a physicist at MIT. “What you have here is one of the most efficient human movements ever conceived.”
Know Your Weapons Know Yourself
Following my military career, I served for many years as a law enforcement professional in the southeast part of the United States. I started...
Training With Teruo Chinen Sensei
Ed Sumner Sensei's Training With Teruo Chinen Sensei:
The first time I met Teruo Chinen Sensei was at the annual college tournament, held that year at Washington...
Isshin-ryu and Pressure Point Fighting
When traditional karate practitioners are introduced to pressure point fighting and shown how it unlocks the secrets of kata and other aspects of classical...
A Scientific Break Down of the Strike
Since this is a martial arts article most of you have correctly surmised that this essay isn't about walk outs by disgruntled employees, picket...
Bob Chaney Muay Thai and Tae Kwon Do Creates Fighters
Although all martial arts employ a variety of kicking techniques, undoubtedly the most widely recognized kicking styles are that of Thailand’s, “ Muay Thai”...
The ABC’s of Mixed Martial Arts Training
Today, Anderson Silva is arguably the greatest MMA fighter in the world. Georges St Pierre is often compared to him. Watching these fighters is...
Combat Triage: General Conditioning: Building Up Your Core
One of the things that I've noticed in working with my up and coming fighters is that although many of them are strong; they...
Defense Theory: Street Effective Practice
One of the major factors that distinguish "realistic" fighting systems from more traditional styles, is in the close simulation of a "live" combat situation...
How To Throw A Knock Out Punch
It’s a relatively well known fact that to throw a knock out punch you should put your body into it. This might sound simple...
Kata Training: Practice Kata Correctly
This translation originally appeared in Vol. 29, No. 1 of the Hiroshima University of Economics Journal of Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences.
Translator's Introduction
Over the...
Best Practices: Maintain A Healthy Mind
It's not difficult to find information and inspiration about staying in shape and maintaining a healthy body. However, without maintaining a healthy mind, you...
The Importance of Kata
Over the past several years I've written articles discussing various sides of martial arts training. In my article entitled, “Commercialism vs. Traditionalism” I talked...
