Zanshin Kai Scotland weekend course May 2012
We’d like to remind everyone about the Zanshin Kai Scotland weekend course in May 2012 in the Sport Scotland venue in Largs, Ayrshire. The course includes 2 days of Karate […]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Collegiate Wrestling documentary
Collegiate wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the collegiate and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling emerged from the folk wrestling styles practised in the early history […]
What are the true applications of Kata?
What are the true applications of Kata? by Iain Abernethy As someone who teaches courses on Kata applications, and as a writer of books and articles on the subject of […]
Morio Higaonna – Power Training
Morio Higaonna (Higaonna Morio, born December 25, 1938) is a prominent Okinawan karate practitioner who is the founder and Chief Instructor of the International Okinawan Goju-ryu Karate-do Federation (IOGKF). He […]
The Truth about Violence
As a teenager, I once had an opportunity to fly in a police helicopter over a major American city. Naively, I thought the experience might be uneventful. Perhaps there would […]
Pankration, Boxing and Wrestling: 3 Combat Sports From Ancient Greece
In the Panhellenic games of ancient Greece, wrestling, boxing and pankration were called the “heavy events.” The term was chosen to describe combative contests in those arts because they were […]
Stuart Williams interviews Geoff Thompson
Stuart Williams is qualified to teach self protection by Geoff Thompson, and a regular on the Geoff Thompson Masterclass; member of Al Peasland & Mick Tully’s CSP Family, Tiger Tamer […]
Shuto and Nukite Training Drill (video)
Knifehand strike A knifehand strike is a strike using the part of the hand opposite the thumb (from the little finger to the wrist), familiar to many people as a […]
Knockout and Concussion Statistics for Violent Encounters
Interesting article in Black Belt Magazine summariseing the results of an FBI analysts investigation of 1600 acts of voilence and their outcomes. Sections include: How often was someone knocked out […]
