Selective Brick Breaking Using Kinetic Energy
Martial Artsist Dustin Fargher shares about selective brick breaking / depth control using kinetic energy. Breaking top - middle - bottom out of an...
Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Using The Lead Leg Attack
Why is it generally so that using the lead leg attack is so ineffectually by the majority of martial artists.
Using the closest weapon to...
PPS Kicking and the Balance Paradigm
"Balance is a necessary ingredient for optimal martial arts performance."
Two masters of the system, Progressive Protective Systems (PPS), disagree with the above statement, at...
Punching Power
Punching and striking speed are tantamount to success in competition and on the street. But throwing a punch too fast, with no control, will...
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...
How Martial Artists Use Science and Technique For Brick Breaking
In this video The Science Center of Iowa brings you science in 60(ish) seconds. In this episode, we learn the science behind brick breaking....
A Scientific Break Down of the Strike
Since this is a martial arts article most of you have correctly surmised that this essay isn't about walk outs by disgruntled employees, picket...
Footwork Training In Martial Arts – An Introduction
In response to a comment a respected martial arts teacher recently made to me that he felt that footwork training was becoming a lost...
Young Bo Kong Taekwondo Counters
Take Kwon Do Grand Master Young Bo Kong as spent a lifetime perfecting his skills in the ancient art of Korean hand and foot...
Taekwon do and Muay Thai Competition Styles
Many times the road to victory begins with an understanding of your opponent’s style of fighting. Two of the most popular forms of competition...
A Karate Chop Offers Proof of the Power of Physics
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.”
Jump Kicks
Jump kicks are one of the most popular martial arts techniques. Various martial arts experts agree that these kicks are one of the most...
Science of Bruce Lee’s One-Inch Punch
Forget all those broken boards and crumbled concrete slabs. No feat of martial arts is more impressive than Bruce Lee’s famous strike, the one-inch...
Riding the Strike of the Cobra: The Softer Approach to Blocking
In this series of lessons, we want to explore several advanced principles of soft blocking. The hard approach to blocking is designed to use...
