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Lets Stay Healthy with Dr. Marina Ustinova

Psychological Aging: You Are Only As Old As You Think you Are

The above statement has become a cliché, but according to anti-aging doctor Marina Ustinova, it is true - and it is what her practice...
Kapap

What Is Lotar

LOTAR is a complete combat concept, derived from real-life situations and personal experience, LOTAR focuses on teaching techniques that recognize, assess and neutralize a...
Dave Kovar's Living Lessons

Choose Your Words Carefully

As a coach, teacher or parent, you must choose your words carefully as someone's life will be influenced by those words. As a child, I...
Mantis Quarterly

Mantis Quarterly

Mantis Quarterly was the voice of the international Mantis Boxing community. In Mantis Quarterly, teachers of every branch and family of the art shared their...
Living the Martial Way

Living the Martial Way

Forrest E. Morgan is the author of Living The Martial Way, a step-by-step approach to applying the Japanese warrior's mind set to martial training...
Always Benchmark

Always Benchmark

It was one of the great takeaways from my MBA program. Whatever you’re setting out to do, don’t reinvent the wheel. Look at what...
Antonio Graceffo Practicing Muay Lao

Muay Lao: The Forgotten Art of Kickboxing

“You can gain extra power on your kicks by throwing your kicking arm down, but you need to protect your face with a cross...
Capoeira

Capoeira History

THE BEGINNING In 1500's the Portuguese, led by explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral, arrived in Brazil. One of the first measures taken by the new arrivals...
Sumo

Sumo

What is Sumo? Sumo is the traditional national sport of Japan. Just as baseball and soccer have become popular within Japan, the ancient traditions of...
Combat Knives and Knife Combat:

Combat Knives and Knife Combat: Knife Models, Carrying Systems, Combat Techniques

On July 28, 2015 Jim Wagner's new book, Combat Knives and Knife Combat, co-written by Dietmar Pohl, who wrote on the technical aspects of...
Tino Tuiolosega's LimaLama

LimaLama The Hand of Wisdom

Limalama is an American Polynesian art of self-defense, created and founded by Tu’umamao “Tino” Tuiolosega. The word LIMALAMA means “The Hand of Wisdom”. It is...
Real Fighter Magazine

Real Fighter Magazine

Real Fighter was a magazine for real fans of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), the sport featured in the red-hot phenomenon The Ultimate Fighting Championship...
FMA Grandmasters and Masters

FMA: Filipino Martial Arts Masters and Grandmasters.

FMA: Filipino Martial Arts Masters and Grandmasters is about some of the many Masters and Grandmasters of the FMA (Filipino Martial Arts). Some are well...
Founders of Kajukenbo

The Martial Art of Kajukenbo

The martial art of Kajukenbo is an evolving, eclectic blend of various martial arts styles. The word Kajukenbo was derived from the initial letters...
Martial Arts Definitions

Martial Arts Definitions S

Sabom: “Teacher” or “instructor.” Sai: A pronged truncheon about fifteen to twenty inches long, used as a defensive instrument against various weapons such as the sword. It...
Sam Sheridan Books

Sam Sheridan Books

The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game In his acclaimed national best seller, A Fighter’s Heart, Sam Sheridan took readers with him as he stepped...