(National Coach/Team Manager for Judo4All International Open G-Judo Tournament) While our trip may have started in disaster; a craked collar bone, bogged bus at 3am and a mad dash to the air port and flew out of Brisbane at 10am 28th April 2008, things got better we were treated extremely well by China airlines food […]
Jab – Cross – Hook! Ever done that in training? Only about a million times I’m guessing, or something very similar I’m sure! What kind of striking combinations do you employ and drill to the death on the pads? The ‘straight blast’ perhaps? This could get pretty technical couldn’t it? I’d better stop before this […]
Recently John Berardi and Precision Nutrition released a new, 8 day email course called 'Body Transformation with Precision Nutrition'. The course is a great introduction to Precision Nutrition and it doesn't cost you a cent to enroll. Here are just a few of the things you'll learn: What "good nutrition" means, specifically; the simple reason […]
Grandmaster Gilberto Pauciullo started training in Martial Arts in 1958, when he was six years old, under his Father: Master Salvatore Pauciullo, (born in 1922), who was a Ju Jutsu and Italian Sword practicioner in the: Regio Esercito Italiano -Guardia Di Finanza, in Anzio, Rome. His father in 1939 was training and practicing with the […]
The 2nd UMA UK No Gi Groundfighting Championships for 2008 got of to a fantastic start, with no les than 28 Clubs and nearly 130 Fighters attending, with the likes of Judo, Sambo, Jujitsu, BJJ, MMA, Grappling etc, stepping up to represent, the day was a fantastic success, so I shall leave the report in […]
Los Angeles, CA – May 21, 2008… 200 Million Viewers world-wide recently tuned in to witness the #1 Muay Thai fighter Yodsaenklai Fairtex take the title on The Contender Asia, Muay Thai’s first reality-based television series on AXN Asia. Facing off against the legendary John Wayne Parr from Australia, who is also on the Jamaica […]
Top and Bottom Positioning While some wrestlers focus more on moves from the standing positions, others prefer to spend more of their time on learning how to execute moves from the bottom. However, a superior wrestler incorporates a strong combination both into their arsenal of high school wrestling moves. Here is a selection of high […]
Shadow boxing is one of the best exercises to achieve actual boxing in its complete form. Liken to choreography of a play on the stage in the theatre. Shadow boxing is one of the only practices in boxing that brings all components of learning in boxing together as one, if carried out correctly. The term […]
In meals the second national single championship hara-Ki-Judo took place. For the first time also with participants for Kata competitions. Altogether about 600 spectators on the taken off grandstand saw stretching fights in 15 weight classes between 20 and +90kg. in the beautiful gymnasium in addition gave it to six pools for forms over the […]
During the end of last year, I had the great opportunity to train with Sifu Ted Wong, Sijo Bruce Lee’s last student, and the world’s most recognised martial artist and expert in Jeet Kune Do (the Way of the Intercepting Fist), both in Hong Kong in October, and Thailand in December. While training in Hong […]