Jung-Doo Han was born in Kangjin, Jeollanam-do, Korea in April 1954, and he grew up in a rural farming village with a traditional culture....

Many of us train with weapons. Some of us with firearms, others with a variety of edged and/or impact ones. The goal with guns...

In recent years there's been a boom in the sales of martial arts training DVDs designed to teach certain skill sets to viewers. As...

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.”

This is a bit like one of those "trust me" times. There are certain parts of the martial arts that we REALLY need to...