Martial Arts Articles By Morne Swanepoel

Morné 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. (Read Biography)

”South Africa is the most dangerous country in the world, which is not at war” A Raping every 15 seconds and this does not include child rapes which is standing at an average of 60 a day! More than 60 people are murdered every day in SA due to violent crime. SA Government has for the first time admitted it was overwhelmed by crime. (Read Article)

The latest craze must surely be MMA or Mixed Martial Arts. Modern Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) emerged in 1993 with the Ultimate Fighting Championships, based on the concept of pitting different fighting styles against each other in competition with minimal rules, in an attempt to determine which system/martial art would be more effective in a real, unregulated combat situation. In the late 1990's and early 2000's, MMA competitions implemented additional rules for the safety of the athletes and to promote acceptance of the sport, while maintaining as much of the original no holds barred concepts as possible. There are very few rules in mixed martial arts, all of which were established over the last ten years or so. Before that, mixed martial arts was a brutal combat sport in which the health of the fighter was always at risk. (Read Article)

By Oliver Roberts - If your child is a bully victim, they might be glad schools are closing. But Morné Swanepoel, an accomplished street-mma-fighter, is changing all that, writes Oliver Roberts. It’s Thursday night in a church hall in Amanzimtoti. On the yellow walls are posters with virtuous mantras about love and kindness; huge, hand-painted announcements about the strength of God, the power of belief and the quest for redemption. (Read Article)

Violent Crime is a reality that South Africans have to deal with on a daily basis. Criminals make use of weapons to control their victims to ensure a high success rate. In many cases the criminals have more firepower than the local police and unfortunately the threat of coming face to face with an armed criminal is not diminishing, in fact it is increasing. (Read Article)

One of the most emphasized coaching instructions in the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) No Holds Barred and Submission wrestling today is - POSITIONING. The Oxford dictionary explains positioning as follows: ‘place occupied by person or thing; proper place; way thing is placed, mental attitude, state of affairs, situation, rank or status, strategic point‘ (Read Article)

Street violence which can be directly related to the unlawful exercise of physical force is a reality we all live with on a daily basis. Training to protect oneself for street confrontations is very intense and quite different from training for competitions, even the No Holds Barred competitions that are very popular today. The pavement arena has no rules, anything goes and you can expect the unexpected. (Read Article)

Street violence, which can be directly related to the unlawful exercise of physical force, is a reality which all of us live with on a daily basis. Training to protect oneself for street confrontations is very intense and quite different from training for competitions, even the No holds barred competitions that are very popular today. The Pavement arena is where there are no rules, where anything goes and where you can expect the unexpected. (Read Article)