Leg Checks and Defenses of Muay Thai
Leg checks are a vital aspect of Muay Thai and no one knows that better than legendary instructor Bob Chaney. He consistently produces some...
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...
8 Stretch Yourself: Questions And Answers On Practicing the High Roundhouse Kick
This is the eighth installment of my column on training that appeared in May 2000 issue of TaeKwonDo Times. This article answers questions about...
Riding the Strike of the Cobra: The Softer Approach to Blocking
In this series of lessons, we want to explore several advanced principles of soft blocking. The hard approach to blocking is designed to use...
Footwork Training In Martial Arts – An Introduction
In response to a comment a respected martial arts teacher recently made to me that he felt that footwork training was becoming a lost...
Power of a Muay Thai Kick
Bob Chaney has been getting his kicks out of life via the marital for almost five decades. With a background in traditional Japanese Karate,...
Bob Chaney Applies the Science of Physics to Fighting
Tae Kwon Do Grand Master Bob Chaney may be one of the best-schooled individuals in the martial arts today. His over all knowledge of...
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...
Jeet Kune Do Knock Out Potential: Developing JKD Power in Your Punch
We have all observed students execute a punch or strike but upon contact there was just no impact power. When I was involved in...
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.”
De Ashi Harai is like the Judo Jab
Just as in boxing, where it is said that "Everything works off the jab", in Judo it might be said that "Everything works off...
Selective Brick Breaking Using Kinetic Energy
Martial Artsist Dustin Fargher shares about selective brick breaking / depth control using kinetic energy. Breaking top - middle - bottom out of an...
Kuntaw Foot Sweeps and Blocks
Kuntaw translated means “fist way” or “way of the fist” and dates back to the mid 1300’s. Over the centuries the style has evolved...
Jump Kicks
Jump kicks are one of the most popular martial arts techniques. Various martial arts experts agree that these kicks are one of the most...
Footwork, Footwork, Footwork
The single biggest distinction between fitness and martial arts training is whether participants move or remain stationary, and the key is learning footwork.
However they...
PPS Kicking and the Balance Paradigm
"Balance is a necessary ingredient for optimal martial arts performance."
Two masters of the system, Progressive Protective Systems (PPS), disagree with the above statement, at...
