“You simply can’t go around telling people what they have been doing for years is completely wrong and has no value, no matter how ‘progressive’ you think that you might be, you’d be very wrong!” These are the unlikely words of long-time personal security consultant, ex-military specialist and seasoned doorman, twenty-five year martial arts veteran […]
WAYNE, PA (9/15/08) – The Nackord Karate System in Wayne, PA is honored to announce the promotion of its Grand Master, Dennis Nackord, to ninth-degree black belt in a ceremony held on Saturday. The martial arts lineage of Nackord can be traced back to three of the most influential people the sport has even known, […]
© Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com 1 Feb. 2007 IFL Dragons' welterweight, Claude Patrick, is at home in Mississauga, just outside of Toronto. He's been hanging out after finishing training for the day when I ask him if he was nicknamed 'Prince' after the title of the book by Nicolo Machiavelli? "Ah, you've done a bit of […]
Copyright – Marc Wickert 2002 www.knucklepit.com At just 41 years of age, Bill Wakefield has been one of the most successful promoters of Australian martial arts. Born in New South Wales, a young Bill Wakefield took up boxing lessons at the local Police Boys club in Dubbo, a country town noted for being the birthplace […]
"If we are able to attack an inferior force with a superior one, our opponent will be in dire straits’" – Sun Tzu, The Art of War. To condition a fighter for war, the methods used must reflect the relentless and violent nature of the sport. Traditional weight training –although effective at making the fighter […]
Entering into any Martial Arts school for the first time can be overwhelming! New faces, new surroundings, new things to learn. Even for the accomplished martial artist who has been around the dojo scene for a while can testify to the fact that starting out or starting over have many real challenges. After a while […]
On sunday the 13th August 2006 Kupa International Martial Arts hosted a Mini Tournament. Over a hundred competitors entered from local dojo's which totaled around 9 as well as 1 from Palmerston North, 1 from Nuhaka, and 1 from Wairoa.This tournament was to be used as a practise for a Hamilton National tournament. Due to […]
In a country with no NASCAR racing and tight gun control laws, how do men bond? The answer is simple. They get together every Wednesday night and pound the daylights out of each other. While training in Taiwan, I attended the inauguration of Fight Club Kaohsiung, which is sponsored by Mindful Phoenix Arts Group. The […]
Most of us within the Combatives fraternity have heard the quote from Kelly McCann where he defines the above question by saying something along the lines of "The difference between martial arts and Combatives, is that martial art is something that you do with someone, in other words there is this reciprocal exchange of movement […]
Bob Sykes of Martial Arts Illustrated Interviews Jamie Clubb about his New Ground-Breaking DVD 1. Where did the concept for the DVD “Cross Training in the Martial Arts” derive? I have always been what the quasi-traditionalists affectionately call a dojo-hopper or martial whore. I suppose that stems from the fact that some of my earliest martial […]