The Three Minds of Karate

By Garry Parker The power to succeed, fail, grow and change is within you. We all have it within us. Extraordinary acts are accomplished every day…

Drills Skill & Sparring Will

By Bong Abenir If I were to choose between drilling and sparring for which is the best way to develop real skill then definitely I choose…

The Fatal Five of Ngo Cho Kun

By Tyler R. Rea The day you’d always hoped to avoid has finally arrived; you find yourself defending your life against a superior attacker—an attacker who…

The Art of Kung-fu Iron Skills

Iron Skills were developed for a harsh reality, when one’s body was one’s weapon. However, this day and age is not as harsh as when the elders devised…

Secrets of Cheng’s Taiji

By Koh Ah Tee and Nigel Sutton The whole of Taiji can be reduced to one word, song (alert relaxation). That is the essence, the root, everything. Relaxation…

Not Your Black Belt

By Garry Parker One Friday evening after training, Takamiyagi Sensei called me to the side; “Pa-ka, ashita… hima aru? (Do you have free time tomorrow?)” Sure,…