Qi Whiz!
Controversies come and go in the martial arts community, but one topic that can always be relied upon to start a loud argument is...
The Importance of Pre-Conflict Skills for Knife Defense – Part 1
Reaction times in knife defense will differ with distance, but good news is many individuals can improve their reaction times with practice.
Chris Thomas: My Approach to Teaching Self Defense
I was reading a military hand-to-hand (H2H) training manual, and recognized that the program had been influenced by the Filipino martial arts. One chapter...
Know Your Weapons Know Yourself
Following my military career, I served for many years as a law enforcement professional in the southeast part of the United States. I started...
7 Stretch Yourself: High Kicks with No Warm Up – Roundhouse Kicks
High Kicks with No Warm-Up: The Right Body Alignment for Great Height and Power in the Roundhouse Kicks
This is the seventh installment of my...
Bob Chaney Applies the Science of Physics to Fighting
Tae Kwon Do Grand Master Bob Chaney may be one of the best-schooled individuals in the martial arts today. His over all knowledge of...
Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: Body Bag Procedures
In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses body bag procedures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wcHx1M72Tw
SUBJECT: Body Bag Procedures PURPOSE: To learn...
Your Secret Self-Defense Sequence
Unconscious Machine Gun of Moves
When people come into my self-defense gyms one of the first things I teach them is to have a defensive...
The Torso Method Exercises Transform One’s Taiji
The last of a series of exercises developed by Jou Tsung Hwa at the Taiji Farm, the aim of these subtle, precise, and intensive...
Fast Moves Are Different From Jerky Movements
Human eye actively responds to jerky movements, to flashing and kaleidoscopic change of images. As a result, our eye cannot separate speed from jerkiness....
Confidence and Competence
Confidence and Competence, this is one of my favorite topics of conversation. Why, because most people would rather talk a good game than actually...
Exercises in Martial Arts
So Many Exercise, So Little Time
One reader wrote me an e-mail with questions about exercises:
I have owned your books Science of Sports Training and...
Streetwise Knife Fighting
In the world of knife fighting there is an unspoken rule. Go in, cut and get out unscathed. It is that simple, but we...
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...
The Right Response to a Ground Attack
Imagine that an unarmed person has mounted you, he is sitting on your stomach as you lay flat on your back, and he is...
Bradal Serey
Learning Khmer Kick Boxing with Paddy Carson
"We have to remember why we are in that ring we are there to hurt the other guy...
