As the story goes, during the Japanese occupation of Okinawa in 1609, the Japanese banned all weapons and martial arts training on Okinawa. Due to this, the Okinawan farmers and fisherman had to improvise by [...]
Dim Mak, also known as the Death Touch! A set of secret martial arts techniques that can produce immense pain from just a touch of your pinky finger. As well as paralyze someone, shut down [...]
If you’ve been training in martial arts anytime from the 1990’s or later, you’ve undoubtably heard that ninety percent of fights end up on the ground. I was primarily training in Hapkido back in the [...]
Early on in my martial arts training, specifically Taekwondo, there was a technique in one of the early rank forms that involved doing a spear hand with one arm and the other arm underneath that [...]
You have undoubtably seen videos or discussion regarding “this art” versus “this art” in a fight. Sometimes it’s a Karate guy versus a Taekwondo guy. Or a Kung Fu guy verses a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu guy. [...]
If you’ve trained in any style of martial arts or taken a self-defense class, you most likely have asked yourself, “could I really make this technique work?” or maybe, “could I really defend myself if [...]
