MARTIAL ARTS ARTICLES

When you first speak to Gavin Mulholland, a Shihan (5th Dan) in Goju-ryu Karate, don’t what ever you do say, ‘Goj...

It hardly takes much convincing to conclude that having blinding speed of punches or bone-cracking power in kicks are the mos...

After the black suits and shuriken, the most noticeable feature of any Hollywood or tohei movie ninja is his sword. Peter Bro...

Timothy Leary’s “Evolutionary Agents” is not a book you would immediately associate with Geoff Thompson&rs...

Like children and the disabled, violence directed against the elderly often grabs news headlines because of the shock it wil...

Now some people would accuse me of going soft but when I see the little dots I teach doing Taekwondo in their mini doboks you...

Hong-Hi Choi founded the Odokwan in 1953, supported by Tae-Hi Nam. The new kwan was based upon the principles used by the ...

MARTIAL ARTS REVIEWS

The first thing that attracted me to this book was its cover. Ok, so you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but I’m shallow and am swayed by appearances. Its appearance is much more contemporary than any oth...
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Ong Bak

The film that launched little-known Muay Thai kickboxer Tony Jaa into orbit, Ben Johnson concedes that Ong Bak must be a contender for one of the best modern day martial arts films of recent times, even if the story does...
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Contrary to what you might read, cross-training in martial arts is not a new phenomenon. I would be quite confident to claim that the founding of just about every system of martial arts was the result of cross-training. ...
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