Mark Shuey Cane Defense: Problem – Solution
Problem: You may not be able to execute intricate martial arts techniques in a fight. Solution: Learn simple moves for defending yourself with a...
Police Officer Survival Guide – Complacency Can Kill You
The average police officer may work his entire career without having to discharge his weapon in the line of duty. This leads the officers...
History of the Nunchaku
To explaining the origin of the nunchaku, we must look at different historical paths including ancient history and old stories and tales. With the...
Immobilization Makes Pressure Point Techniques Work
In the martial arts community, those who practice kyusho-jitsu (pressure-point techniques for fighting) are often subjected to criticism. It all started when their self-defense...
The Motobu Fist: Lost Fist Tools Of Okinawan Karate
There is an unfamiliar side to traditional martial training similar to encountering a foreign language that runs through authentic karate-do practice. The Okinawans labeled...
Using Closed Fist Or Open Hand Strikes?
In most police academies and military combat units worldwide professional students are taught to use closed fist strikes when resorting to hand-to-hand conflict. When...
Sudden In Custody Death Syndrome (SICDS)
Introduction
What is Sudden In Custody Death Syndrome (SICDS), or Positional Asphyxia, and why is being knowledgeable about it important to my department and its...
The Revival Of Bare-knuckle Boxing
Most people today think of fighting systems as Asian. Some also even think of Brazil or Israel, but most don’t think of martial arts...
Quest For The Truth: The Origin of Tang Soo Do’s Forms
Hwang Kee, founder of Tang Soo Do, claimed to have brought the art's Pyong Ahn forms back from China in the 1930s. That was...
Kata: Why Bother
There are many differing views on the value of kata. Kata is regarded by some to be the very 'soul' of the martial arts....
LOD Precision Marksman Sniper Rifle 1
The Man And His Mission
My first encounter with Billy Martin, President of LOD Training Associates and inventor and designer of the LOD Precision Marksman Sniper...
Don’t Mislead Me: Inadequate Explanations For Kata Movements
The question showed that this student was troubled by the woefully inadequate explanations for kata movements that he had been given over the years.
Since...
How to Survive Bomb Attacks
You may be learning a martial arts system in order to protect yourself against a common criminal, but does your training also include how...
Isshin-ryu and Pressure Point Fighting
When traditional karate practitioners are introduced to pressure point fighting and shown how it unlocks the secrets of kata and other aspects of classical...
Sanchin Kata
Kata (exercises or forms) are performed in many styles of martial arts. With the help of these particular forms of exercise, many diverse techniques...
Closing the Gap in Fighting
The most important space for any fighter is the distance that separates them from their opponent. Closing that gap is the key to executing...
