Articles and Columns by Author

Here you will find links to articles by some of the most knowledable writers on martial arts topics. You will find author's names in alphabetical order,a nd a short piece of ther biographical information will appear with their photo or graphic which represents the author.

Dana Abbott	Patrick McCarthy
Iain Abernethy	Fernando Meza
Julio Anta	Avi Nardia
Gene Ching	Vince Palumbo
Ronnie Colwell	Michael Schwarz
Brett Denison	Ronald J. Shively
Anthony R. DiFilippo	Sophie Song
Daniel C. Docto	Scott Sonnon
Henry Ellis	Stephen Spivey
Kent Fung	Russell Stutely
Antonio Graceffo	Michael Sullenger
Dane S. Harden	Morné Swanepoel
Robert Hunt	Chris Thomas
John Kreng	Jim Wagner
Thomas Kurz	Don Warrener
Gary Lee	Adam Williss
Willie Lim	Terry Wilson
WR Mann	Thomas Newnam

Master Dana Abbott born in San Francisco in 1956 has spent the last quarter century devoting his life to the study of martial arts in Japan and the USA. Prior to his Japanese experience he graduated from Arizona State University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1978. He has taught and conducted seminars in over 30 countries. Dana Abbott's bladed weapon experience is extensive and well polished. He holds the esteemed rank of Kyoshi, in the sword art of Goshindo, obtained at the Hombu Dojo in Yokohama, Japan.
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In addition to holding a 5th dan with the British Combat Association, Iain Abernethy was also awarded a separate 5th dan by the English Karate Governing Body in 2005. His joint “traditional” and “reality based” approach puts Iain in to a unique position in British martial arts. Iain regularly writes for the UK’s leading martial arts magazines and he is a member of the "Combat Hall of Fame". . . . Iain is of the view that karate should be a holistic civilian self-protection system. In particular, Iain strongly supports the idea that the traditional kata of karate were created to record such a self-protection system.
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Julio Anta is the owner of Anta’s Fitness and Self Defense in Miami, Florida. He is a Hung Gar Kung Fu Master and a certified Haganah F.I.G.H.T. (Fierce Israeli Guerrilla Hand to hand Tactics) instructor. Anta a retired Corrections Officer and former United States Marine Corps Sergeant is certified in Fitness Kickboxing, Pilates, Kettlebells and as a personal trainer. He holds certifications as a martial arts instructor by the ACMA (American Council of Martial Arts) and is an Officer Agent of the National Security Alliance Kid-Safe Network.
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Gene Ching is the Associate Publisher of Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine and KungFuMagazine.com, the largest English language magazine and website devoted exclusively to Chinese martial arts.  He has authored hundreds of martial arts articles on and has been publishing his research since 1992.  Additionally, he has written well over a hundred scripts for martial arts instructional videos.  He has published articles in several major martial arts magazines beyond Kung Fu Tai Chi, as well as magazines about film, Asian culture and even a few adult magazines. (Biography) (Articles by Gene Ching) (Return To Top)

Ronnie Colwell, as a recognised 9th Dan in the arts of Karate-do and JyuJutsu, has spent a lifetime pursuing knowledge on fighting systems throughout the world. Ronnie's CV is impressive including British military service, professional bodyguard, martial arts instructor to European and Middle Eastern royalty and special forces instruction.
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Brett Denison sensei has been a student and practitioner of Traditional Japanese martial arts for almost 30 years and holds the level of Menkyo Okuden in Senshin-ryu Jujutsu. He has also studied Shotokan Karate (earning a Nidan) and holds a Menkyo Okuden license in Katsujin-ryu Bujutsu. Denison sensei is the head instructor of the Mizukan Dojo.
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Anthony R. DiFilippo is the owner/director of the Ryukyu Kodokan Dojo and webmaster of Silk Road Enterprises. He has been a student of the martial arts for over thirty five years and holds yudansha grades in Koryu Uchinadi Kenpo Jutsu and Okinawan Shorin Ryu karate. In 2001, Anthony R. DiFilippo was appointed the Africa Shibucho for the International Ryukyu Karate Research Society and Africa Region Style Head for Koryu Uchinadi Kenpo Jutsu, under the auspices of Hanshi Patrick McCarthy. (Biography) (Articles by Anthony R. Difilippo)
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Daniel C. Docto aka “DOC” is the writer of monthly Muay Thai articles, he trains at all the Muay Thai gyms in the Ao Nang Krabi area, he teaches personal fitness and fight training and English announcing at Ao Nang Krabi Muay Thai Stadium on Friday nights.
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Henry Ellis was born May 3rd 1936 in a tough coal mining town in the County of Yorkshire, North of England. This was pre-war Britain, and growing up as a child during the austere war years of the 1940’s all Henry knew was hard times and discipline as the son of a tough coal face miner. Henry didn't realize that this tough life with strict discipline would stand him in good stead in the years to come.
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I, Kent Fung, am a freelance writer, concentrating on financial writing. I was previously the business editor at a Boston daily newspaper and previously worked as a freelance political and commercial writer and as a graphics specialist. I have an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Chicago. Much of my spare time is devoted to learning and practicing the martial arts. I have been training, in one style or another, for just about 20 years. This includes intense study in two styles (I hold instructor ranking in one) and dabbling (less than one year instruction) in a handful of others. (Biography)
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Before September 11th, Antonio Graceffo was a successful investment banker working on Wall Street. In 2001 he left behind the world of high finance to pursue a childhood dream - the life of a full-time adventurer and writer. Originally from New York City, Antonio speaks Chinese, Khmer, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Thai. He holds diplomas from universities in the US, Germany, and England. He has studied and competed in martial arts and boxing for over twenty-five years, and has studied at the Shaolin Temple, in Mainland China and a Muay Thai (boxing) temple, in Thailand. (Biography) (Articles by Antonio Graceffo)
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Master Dane S. Harden formed his nearly life-long affiliation with the martial arts when he began studying Aikido in 1969 at the age of ten in a small program run at a local college in Frostburg, Maryland. From there he went on to train in Tae Kwon Do with the Jhoon Rhee Institute, and over the course of almost forty years, he would go on to study numerous martial art's styles, eventually earning Black Belts in Aikido, Isshin Ryu Karate, and most notably a Sixth Dan in Tae Kwon Do. He was a major tournament competitor on the U.S. National Karate Circuit from the 1970's to the early 1990's, frequently earning top rankings in both forms and fighting at the regional and national levels. (Biography)
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Mr. Robert Hunt began studying the martial arts in 1964 and holds Black Belt rank in three styles of Japanese/Okinawan karate, as well as kobudo. He has been studying the techniques and history of Karate for 45 years and and travels throughout the United States for book signings and seminars on the history of karate and its myriad applications. He is currently working on his second novel “One Moon” and is in the process of adapting his first novel “The Art and the Way” for film. (www.theartandtheway.com). He currently teaches Shito Ryu karate and Kobudo at the Scottsdale Martial Arts Center in Arizona and is a member of the Genbu-Kai with Fumio Demura.
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John Kreng has had a successful multi‐faceted career in the entertainment industry working as a Stunt Coordinator, Fight Choreographer, Stand‐Up Comedian, Author, Actor, Video Game Designer/Producer, and Stuntman. Born in Washington, D.C., the son of the Cambodian Ambassador to the United States, John is of Chinese and Thai descent, and is fluent in Vietnamese, Chinese, and English. After his father died before John was one year old, his mother decided to stay in the U.S. so he could have a better education and the freedom to be successful at whatever he desired.
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Thomas Kurz, the world's foremost expert on flexibility training, is the author of Stretching Scientifically, Secrets of Stretching, and Science of Sports Training and co-author of Basic Instincts of Self-Defense. Thomas Kurz is the president of Stadion Publishing Company, Inc. and of Real Self-Defense, LLC and its division Never-Thought-of-It Enterprises. You can see him demonstrating a perfect self-defense weapon—Self-Defense-Umbrella—made by Never-Thought-of-It Enterprises. (Biography) (Articles by Thomas Kurz) (Return To Top)

Gary Lee - Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Kyoshi Gary Lee is an international karate champion, master karate teacher, a writer for many martial arts publications, a Black Belt Hall Of Fame inductee, and a historian of sport karate. He was also a professional stuntman for many of Hollywood’s favorite martial arts films. He now devotes his intention to Black Belt TV, a martial arts network he helped create in 2005. (Biography) (Articles By Gary Lee) (Return To Top)

Mr. Lim was born into a Malayan family of Kung Fu practitioners, his uncle was Head of the Eagle Claw division of Ching Wu and his grandmother a practitioner of Lotus style Kung Fu, yet Mr. Lim began his formal training in Kyokushinkai Karate. Willy enjoyed the usual dose of injuries and through his physician, began his training in Tai Chi with Master Yo Ching-hai, a disciple of Master Cheng Man-ching. In 1963 Mr. Lim began his training in Taekwondo under the legendary Choi Chang Kim in Penang. (Biography) (Articles) (Return To Top)

WR Mann is the founder and publisher of www.realfighting.com, the leading reality-based site on the Internet. He was one of the early advocates of Reality-Based Training, developing one of the first RBT programs before most people even knew what the term meant. WR started training in martial arts as a child in Europe and continued his quest while living in Asia for several years; studying many of the major systems of Japan, Korea, China and the Philippines. He also practiced fight sports such as: judo, BJJ, boxing, muaythai and fencing.
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Patrick McCarthy Hanshi, is a 5th generation student of Uchinadi with an impeccable lineage of Okinawan instructors, starting with his teacher Kinjo Hiroshi and his teacher’s teacher, Hanashiro Chomo, Itosu Ankoh who preceded him, and his master, Matsumura Sokon, —historically the tradition’s most visible pioneer. A Canadian-born Australian migrant, McCarthy has studied the art of karate since childhood, and enjoyed an outstanding competitive background before embarking upon a lengthy journey as a field-researcher in Japan, where he ultimately resurfaced as a best-selling author.
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Fernando Meza - Noviembre 1972: Inicio practicas de Karate en el Instituto Nacional de la Juventud Mexicana de Guadalajara. Marzo 1975: Soy admitido en la escuela Choy Lay Fut de Kung Fu en Mexicali, BC Norte. Octubre 1975: Inicio practica de Karate Goju Ryu con el Sensei Takuo Katano, egresado de All Japan Karate Do College. (Biography)
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Avi Nardia is a former intelligence team member of the Yamam, Israel’s premier counter-terror (takeover) unit, equivalent to the U.S. Delta Force and F.B.I. Counter Terror units. As a member of the intelligence team and the instructor of CQB - Defensive Tactics (known in Hebrew as Kapap – Krav Panim Le Panim, which means face to face combat) he was exposed to many different tactics, training and real life situations.
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Vince Palumbo commenced training in 1974 as a junior boxing and gymnastics student at the Semaphore Youth Club in Adelaide, and after winning most of his junior boxing bouts, he expanded his interests to judo at the age of 11, at the McNally’s Gym in Light Square, Adelaide. In 1980 he began learning the martial art of Freestyle Karate at the Zen Do Kai Bushido Dojo in Hindley Street, Adelaide. In 1984 Vince received his first Black Belt in Freestyle Karate, and in the same year Vince then also started to train in the art of Tae Kwon Do under Master Chris Nasilowski. (Biography) (Articles by Vince Palumbo) (Return To Top)

Russell Stutely has been one of the most influential Instructors of the last 15 years throughout Europe. His no-nonsense approach to Martial Arts in general and to Pressure Points in particular has seen him gain a considerable following. Russell Teaches Massive power generation through Pressure Point Fighting, Kata Bunkai and a complete Police Defensive Tactics Program (PPDT). PPDT is now required learning at several Police Training Academies and Russell is in constant demand throughout Europe and the USA to teach this amazingly simple yet efficient system. (Read Biography)

Michael Schwarz is a 2nd level master instructor with the title of Panginoon Guro in the Davis/Cabales System of Serrada Escrima.  He prefers though to be addressed by the less formal and more commonplace term, Punong Guro, which is of course abbreviated by the letters PG. . . . PG Schwarz was born on the 21st September 1961 in East St. Louis, Illinois right on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, more commonly known as the gateway to the great American west. Adopted shortly after his birth, his adoptive parents brought him up in the small farming town of New Baden, Illinois.
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Ronald J. Shively is a veteran martial artist with 35+ years experience in the Internal and External Chinese, Filipino, and Okinawan Martial Arts, in addition to possessing both instructor and master instructor ranks in several styles. Starting in the early 1970’s, Ron began a lifelong career in the martial arts at the age of 13. Beginning in the Hindu-Chinese Martial Arts of Varmaine and Kalari Piyat, Ron began to train in the more esoteric and obscure systems of martial arts. As his training progressed, Ron was able to gain experience in several styles of Chinese Martial Arts:
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Sophie Song is an actress, model, and Chinese film star with more than fifty five movies to her credit in Hong Kong and China. She currently works as a martial arts stunt woman and has a reoccuring role on the "Turning Up The Heat!" TV Show for www.actionstarmedia.com.
Sophie is also a columnist for www.worldmartialartsmagazine.com.
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Stephen Spivey is a worldwide leading authority in self defense. At an early age, he was wired for reality-based self defense. He started his training in the adversarial streets of New Orleans. Fighting was common place in his neighborhood so his mother enrolled him in a local martial arts studio at the age of seven.
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Morné Swanepoel is a full time coach and practitioner and is certified as one of the most qualified Reality Based Personal Protection High Performance Mixed Martial Arts coaches in the world. Travelling countless times to International destinations in the past 15 years and featuring in almost every media medium across the globe the past couple of years, Morné has become one of the leading figures in realistic Martial Arts today.
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Chris Thomas is a pressure point fighting expert (Kyusho-jitsu) and author of 6 books and numerous articles on Pressure Points and other topics. He has been published in magazines all over the world, including Black Belt Magazine and S.W.A.T. in the United States, Blitz Magazine in Australia, Budoka in Finland, and Combat and Fighting Arts International in the UK.

He has studied in the martial arts for over 30 years and holds Master ranks in Isshin-ryu and Ryukyu kempo. He has also studied Tai Chi Chuan. He is the head of Kyusho-Jitsu Kenkyukai.
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Jim Wagner’s Reality-Based Personal Protection system has created a major shift in the way people are learning self-defense world wide. Alfredo Tucci, the publisher of Europe’s top martial arts magazine Budo (printed in seven languages) stated, “Jim Wagner is without doubt one of the most important experts in the world on ‘real self-defense.’ He has taught the most important units in the world, such as German GSG9, Israeli Special Forces, FBI SWAT, Argentinean GOE, the U.S. Marshals, Brazilian GATE, every branch of the American military, the U.S. Border Patrol, Helsinki Police, British TSG, etc. His curriculum is impressive!”
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Don Warrener is highly respected in the martial arts community and is the President of Rising Sun Productions. He has written well over 300 articles for virtually every magazine in the world including Italy, Germany, India, Australia, USA, Sweden etc. He has also written seven books in total and co-authored another six. He has written numerous martial arts books on individuals, katas, interviews with masters.
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Adam Williss has made it his mission to empower individuals and help them get access to the same simple and effective self-defense concepts used by world-reknowned experts. He delivers on his mission as the author behind “Safe Advice with Adam Williss” and as the founder of Advanced Fighting Concepts, a concept-based martial arts approach which provides highly functional close-quarters self-defense concepts for everyone - from everyday people to the most experienced martial artists. (Biography) (Articles by Adam Williss) (Return To Top)

Terry Wilson is a 7th degree black belt in Shintoyoshin-Ryu Jujitsu and a 5th degree black belt in Shorin-Ryu karate. He is also a five time Emmy Award winning television producer, director, writer and on camera host/reporter. Terry is the only person ever to receive an Emmy for producing a martial art special – “Karate Kung Fu & Arts of Self Defense – 1976. He was also the first to direct Full Contact Karate and Kickboxing for network television broadcasts on CBS, NBC. He was also director of syndicated programming for the World Karate Association.
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Sensei Thomas Newnam is a martial artist and a professional watercolor artist. He is also a freelance writer. Having been a juvenile probation officer and a psychotherapist, most of his writings tend to be about issues concerning mind/body/spirit mental health. Tom has recently written a self-help book that, hopefully, will appeal to anyone seeking to grow more into themselves. He is exploring his options with potential literary agents at this time. (Articles by Thomas Newnam)