Hanshi Duke Swain began his training in Isshin Ryu Karate in the early 1970’s under the direction of Grandmaster Castanza. Several years later, he...

The Way in the universe cannot be augmented or diminished. Neither can it be taken or be given away. Man must find this out...

Times were different when I started my martial arts journey. I was 10 years old and had some trouble in school dealing with a...

I started my martial arts journey at age 15. It was a search for a method of self defense that would be empowering and...

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.”