Kata, a Japanese word that means forms or movement patterns, has always been a huge part of most traditional martial arts, whether they use the term ‘kata’ or not. Traditionalists will describe it as an essential combat training tool and in karate it is used mostly in imaginary fights against multiple opponents. Some may look…
An unqualified martial arts instructor in the UK has been charged after he was accused of knocking out two of his child students by putting them in choke holds. The man, identified as 29-year-old Steven Grant, ran a martial arts school called Slicks Martial Arts in a town called Milford Haven. According to reports, he…
Hitting someone in the chest in order to stop their heart sounds like a stupid idea, and most people will deny that this is possible. Unless you’re in the world of Kill Bill and have learnt the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, most would argue that it’s impossible. However, according to a scientist from…
A few days ago, we stumbled across what may be the stupidest comment in the online world of martial arts we have ever come by. It simple read “Why do people practice martial arts when people use guns in real life?” We’ll let that hang in the air for a second, just to get you…
Strong wrists and strong hands are good for just two things, martial arts and well…we don’t actually need to write it down do we? In the ring, the worst thing to be is limp wristed for a number of reasons. One, your punches will be as weak as a slap to the face by a…
Bullies are bastards. Plain and simple. They target those who they feel look weaker than them. Children who are unaware of their suroundings or appear shy are often targeted too, but as all martial artists know, looks can be deceiving. If you have children or someone you know has children, they will probably have been…
Depending on who you talk to, Martial Arts and Self-defense are both exactly the same thing or completely different. In our opinion, they are both of these things…so let us try and explain. While many martial arts evolved as self-defense systems in the ancient days where the land was lawless and fights most certainly ended…
Two men who attacked a young woman have been served poetic justice as they are fought off by some brown belt karate. On a chilly night, 29 year old Kelly Soutar headed home from a night on the town with some friends when two nasty pieces of work approached her from behind. Seconds later, she…
This question may sound a bit strange. Sure, there are many other nationalities who are equally good at wrestling, but we have seen a large proportion of wrestlers coming from the Iranian area who are all just incredible, such as Ezzatollah Akbari, Behnam Ehsanpour and Hassan Rahimi. It sounds a bit like asking why Japanese…
The Matrix was a documentary and dodging bullets is real. We know this because some martial arts masters swear by using bullet time, you can fight and dodge anything. Just look at Tai Chi – what do you think that is? (We’ll let you into a little secret, its bullet time slowed down, but you…