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Adventure and Martial Arts Writer on History Channel

Adventure writer Antonio (The Monk from Brooklyn) Graceffo is working as a martial arts consultant for the History Channel’s new martial arts TV series, “Human Weapon.” The show features two American MMA fighters who travel around Asia, studying different martial arts. Each episode closes with the Americans fighting a local master or champion. Graceffo had […]

TOA: The Paul Kingi Story

Paul Kingi was born in Dannevirke and began his involvement with strength and fight training while at school in the fifth form. It was weight training first, and then boxing and anything remotely related to combat sports or power training. From school he went directly to America and played American Football and began power lifting.  […]

Capoeira Pasifika Mandinga

Capoeira (pronounced Kapo-way-ra with soft vowels and a rolled ‘r’ ) is a fighting art integrated with music, dance-like movement, gymnastics and theatrics. It was created by Africans, taken to Brazil and forced to live under a brutal system of slavery. Capoeira is practiced and expressed in a performance of the entire art form. In […]

Precision Nutrition Body Transformation Challenge

Dr John Berardi and the good folks at Precision Nutrition have just posted some amazing before and after pictures. These pics feature men and women who've made some jaw dropping changes to their bodies, becoming leaner, more muscular, and healthier along the way. Now it's your turn! I know you've got over a thousand reasons […]

Fight Times Origins

Congratulations on completing 10 years with this publication since it’s beginning as New Zealand Martial Arts Magazine. It has certainly stood the test of time, which is so satisfying considering other attempts have been made but not succeeded. Doesn’t time pass so quickly with a project like this, it seems like only recently that I […]

Team Takedown Scores Knockout, Signs Heralded Eric Bradley to Long-Term Contract

Penn State Grad, Two-Time NCAA Mat All-American, National Collegiate Boxing Champion Bradley Readies for MMA Wars ARLINGTON, TEXAS (MAY 14, 2007) – Team Takedown — an Arlington, Texas-based elite Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter management group — today announced the signing of former Penn State All-American Eric Bradley to a long-term professional services contract. Bradley […]

Real Life Situations – May 2007

Real Life Experiences highlights the stories of operators and civilians who have had to use the skills they've learnt in self defence or combat. If you have had to defend yourself as a civilian or in the execution of your duties as a service person, then don't hesitate to forward your story. These stories will not include […]

Record of Service

Fight Times has always had a record of service column where veteran’s family members and friends can submit articles. This column is very special to us and our readers consider it a mark of respect to those that have sacrificed so much in service of their country. This column is a great way to record […]

May 2007

Since the last editors I have conducted several courses attracting exponents from all over the world as well as having regular visits from military instructors from around the world. Many of my visitors claimed they went to considerable lengths to identify the right system, facility and instructor best suited to their needs before signing up. […]

Precision Nutrition Knowledge Base Now Accessible To Millions

John Berardi and Precision Nutrition have thrown open the floodgates and made the entire Precision Nutrition Knowledgebase (follow the link for free access to the Precision Nutrition Members Area) accessable to millions of readers on the web. Precision Nutrition customers will still have preferred access to the Precision Nutrition forums, and this means that they […]