Mukhanda Enterprise is an organization that researches, preserves, and practices traditional African combat systems, both in Africa and throughout the Diaspora where African people migrated to, both as free people and as slaves. Mukhanda Enterprise have regular contact with practitioners of authentic African combat arts, both in Africa and the Diaspora, and as an organization, […]
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 […]
2005 was a banner year for New Zealand Wide ProWrestling (NZWPW) in many respects: the University Orientation tour of the North and South Islands, playing to packed houses at the Lower Hutt Town Hall, the October “Invasion” tour bringing pro wrestling back to Wellington’s Newtown, and also saw the crowning of a new undisputed NZ […]
Today was our first Interclub Sparring Session (ISS), we invited clubs from North Waikato region to our first ISS held at the Huntly Mermorial Hall. It was a good turn out, with fighters from Town N town Club, Huntly Tae kwon do, some local boxers and of course The HKB club. The participants ended up […]
We will be holding PrimeTime top team on April 29th at Tamaiki community recreation centre in Glen Innes. Top Team was previously called “Battle of the codes”. However since it is possible some styles of fighting are not able to enter a team, and others want to enter several, also some fighters want a team […]
‘Taekwondo New Zealand’ member organisations Ace Taekwondo, New Zealand Taekwondo Alliance and the Taekwondo Union of New Zealand, sent a total of 12 New Zealand referees to the 49th International Referee Seminar held in Sydney during January. The seminar was organised by the recently formed Oceania Taekwondo Union and over 80 participants from Korea, USA, […]
To all Full Muay Thai Trainers & Fighters in New Zealand & Australia. I have been given the Great opportunity from Thailand to stage the First Ever S-1 Oceania 8 Man Full Muay Thai Rules Event here in New Zealand on September 9th. I am looking for 4 New Zealand Fighters & 4 Australian Fighters […]
One of the most difficult and yet easiest to execute, this most important Chinese word with reference to Taijiquan will give you the exactly what the classics tell us that we should receive when practicing Taiji. The problem that most people (well all actually) is that in the beginning we all TRY to ‘sink’ the […]
Photos courtesy of The Image Girl. February 25th 2006 was the first PrimeTime event for the year. The event was titled “Last fighter Standing” and consisted of a women’s division run by Director Belinda Dunne and Men’ Grappling and Pankration run by Darryl Grauman and Jerry Beale of Integrated Fighting. The event was at Tamaki […]
The World Taekwondo Headquarters-Kukkiwon has officially recognised Taekwondo New Zealand (TNZ) by the awarding of the prestigious “Kukkiwon Diploma” to TNZ members Peter Shaw, Yorick Neal, Rajesh Narsey, Matt Ransom and Sae Tae Park, "for their self-sacrifice to Taekwondo and for their promotion of Taekwondo Culture” and for their contribution to the ground-breaking formation of […]