How To Throw A Knock Out Punch
It’s a relatively well known fact that to throw a knock out punch you should put your body into it. This might sound simple...
De Ashi Harai is like the Judo Jab
Just as in boxing, where it is said that "Everything works off the jab", in Judo it might be said that "Everything works off...
How Muay Thai Fighters Set Up Their Opponents
An American Martial Artist Travels to Jamaica to Learn How the World's Best Muay Thai Fighters Set Up Their Opponents Before Delivering the Knockout...
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...
Kuntaw Foot Sweeps and Blocks
Kuntaw translated means “fist way” or “way of the fist” and dates back to the mid 1300’s. Over the centuries the style has evolved...
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...
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...
8 Stretch Yourself: Questions And Answers On Practicing the High Roundhouse Kick
This is the eighth installment of my column on training that appeared in May 2000 issue of TaeKwonDo Times. This article answers questions about...
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...
Martial Arts Vs Crash Test Dummies
How many of you out there have ever wondered just how powerful a good karate spinning back fist is compared to a boxing right...
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...
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...
Pure Punching Power: Karate-do Punch vs Karate-jutsu Punch
In this article a Medical Doctor Examines Karate-Do and Karate-Jutsu to find out which system has a better karate punch.
Much has been made of...
