In early February Taekwondo New Zealand (TNZ) and its member organisations played host to Great-Grandmaster Hae Man Park, 10th Dan black belt who is one of the original Korean Taekwondo Masters who created the WTF Taeguek and Palgwae poomsae forms. Great-Grandmaster Park was accompanied on his seminar series by TNZ President Grandmaster Tae Kyung Kim, […]
Feb 25th PrimeTime Management is holding a fight competition titled “Last Fighter Standing”. The women’s division will be run by the director Belinda Dunne (me) and the men’s divisions (Grappling and Pankration) will be run by Darryl Grauman and Jerry Beale head trainers at “Integrated Fighting”. The quality of the fighters who have come forward […]
TNZ 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, Taiwan, Hong […]
10th of February 2006 Sifu McInnes announced his retirement from coaching professional fighters. Sifu is one of Thailand most decorated instructors in the professional fighting arena. He has coached fighters such as Peter Aerts, Stan the man, Daniel Dawson, Nick Kara, Reme Bojenski, Sakmongkol Sitchuchork, The Tank, Akim , Prince Amir , Manu Ento’s , […]
This month I’d like to start with a little story. It goes back to my days as a competitive powerlifter. I competed for 12 years in powerlifting, and recall many contests where I had to cut weight. Towards the end of my powerlifting career I was about 196 lbs. I could have competed in the […]
This article is a combination of a thread I wrote on the Geoff Thompson messageboard, a presentation I gave at the 2005 Camp Get-Tough and various people's input over the years. So thanks to you all! Pads and the pad-man (or women, but for ease I'll refer to "pad-man" throughout the article) are an interesting […]
“Looks like every man and his dog are 'reality based' these days… I don't ‘base’ my stuff on reality – it is reality, for guys like me anyway! I'm going out to use my stuff everyday, any day, on a job and I'm not just facing drunks unarmed either!” – Mick Coup, Founder of C2: […]
"The wonderful thing about bluntness…is that it gauges the strong and intimidates the weak." Rather than nod in agreement when our instincts cried. WRONG! or kow-tow to the militant misconception that fear equals respect or pander to the egos of the political forces of the martial art community, we have said what needed to be […]
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 […]
PrimeTime events announces that starting in Feb 2006 we will be running five mainly female fight competitions that will all go to air on both TV3 and Sky Sport in June/July. It is great news that the networks and media are now looking at martial arts as worthy of the coverage and we are excited […]