Vince Palumbo recently attended the 4th Annual Cacoy Doce Pares World Championships along with his Australian team-mates. After several months of hard training Master Vince had a prepared a team of 9 other sport stickfighters also from Adelaide, all ready to get into the action in the Jakarta competition. Over the days of the tournament […]
Te Awamutu close to Hamilton was the venue for the WAKO Judgement day tournament. 13 fights were on the crad for this prestigious WAKO event. A series of tournaments are held through the year with the annual finale held in Te awamutu. This years event was to host two National title fights, and one Regional […]
Picture the scene: you are an eager adult martial arts student with a firm interest in realistic combat methods for today’s civilian and, having found a club that seems to tick all your criteria boxes, you are suddenly paired with a child training partner. You are a no-nonsense type of person and a veteran of […]
On Saturday 1st Sept 2007, WAKO Judgment Day was held at Te Awamutu Event Centre. Huntly Kickboxing took 6 fighters down for the event. Cody Brooks. Josh Healy, James Harbottle, Blake Harbottle, Simon Mence and Shaye Brooks. All 6 fighters won their matches; they were all hard fought with evenly matched opponents. HKB would like […]
One of the most emphasized coaching instructions in the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) No Holds Barred and Submission wrestling today is – POSITIONING. The Oxford dictionary explains positioning as follow: "place occupied by person or thing; proper place; way thing is placed, mental attitude, state of affairs, situation, rank or status, strategic point […]
How do we teach children to be efficient students of realistic self-protection and martial arts? It’s a tough question and if training children is to be seen as an allegory for teaching fundamentals then it is not surprising that this very element is where the martial arts education industry is at its weakest. I see […]
On August 5th 2007 a number of fighters from huntly kickboxing went too WAKO TOP FIGHTER tournament It was first time in a tournament situation for most with a few old hands to lead from the front. All did well with many finishing in top 3. Once again a well run WAKO tournament. Bam, Blake […]
Former Auckland Warrior Dallas Mead and reigning IPW New Zealand Heavyweight Champion Jon E. King have been announced as the latest entrants in November 10's NZPWI Invitational 2007 pro-wrestling tournament taking place in Whangarei. Mead, who currently competes in IPW Australia in Brisbane will compete in his first ever New Zealand pro-wrestling bout at the […]
When Keanu Reeves was on the Jay Leno show a few years back, Jay asked him what he had been up to lately. Keanu's reply was that he had spent the last several months learning movie Kung Fu. Jay asked him, "Do you feel you could defend yourself now." Without hesitation, Keanu answered, "No." "But, […]
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 […]