The WORLD ASSOCIATION of KICKBOXING ASSOCIATIONS (NZ) (WAKO (NZ), held its first 'New Zealand National' Full Contact Championships at Te Awamutu on 2nd July. Initially three title fights were booked for the evening with 9 fights on the under-card to warm the crowd up. Local Heavyweight favourite 'Bad Boy' Brad Johanson was unfortunately scratched from […]
Q: At what age did you begin martial arts training? Kru Nick: I started my martial arts training in the arts of Taekwondo and Tang So Do at the age of 3. Q: Isn’t that a little young? Nick: Yes, I guess so, but I was very fortunate the martial arts training was part of […]
In recent years, both the skill levels as well as the tactical aspects of modern competition karate have changed enormously. Only if you have mastered both elements you are more likely to succeed. Being highly skilled, flexible, fast and committed does not necessarily guarantee the desired outcome. In the same way distance determines technique, the […]
Photos courtesy of The Image Girl from the K1 Kings of Oceania, Trusts Stadium, Waitakere, Auckland, 30 July 2005. Click on the photo to purchase it from The Image Girl website. Sefo lands high kick early on in the fight – Sefo started strong but faded in the later rounds. Kiwi new-comer Jay Hepi scores […]
2005 has brought another great year for Wushu – Chinese Martial Arts. The year's events started with the World Taichi Qi Gong Day on the 30th April. This year saw the largest participation since we started holding the event four years ago. As each country begins at 10:00am local time, New Zealand plays an important […]
Arriving at Trust Stadium to setup for the K1 was an exciting and tense moment. This show is legendary and being a part of it was to be a huge honour for our fighters. The biggest thing for Mania was, would the ring be too hard for the fighters to grapple on. The K1 boys […]
Dragon Promotions in association with Chu Zhen Dao Freestyle Martial Arts hosted again, with out a doubt one of the best Muay Thai kickboxing tournaments held in NZ. The event on Saturday May 21st was run at Tauranga's QE II (the only stadium in Tauranga big enough to house this event), and in spite of […]
As a parent interested in Self Protection you may have taken it upon yourself to be armed with a punch like Mike Tyson and a kick to rival David Beckham. This is all well and good when it's you and the bad guys, but what about when it's you and your 18 month old baby […]
Part 1 At first sight of the above title I am sure that a lot of Aikidoist's will be angry, they will assume that this is yet another attack on the credibility of Aikido by other martial artist's. On this occasion they are totally wrong, I have been a student of Aikido since 1957, In […]
Over the course of twenty years, Tony Blauer has developed one of the most innovative approaches to teaching real world self-defense. Dealing more with psychological and scenario based aspects of training, Tony Blauer's methods (S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM & HIGH GEAR Simulations) have quickly become favorites of law enforcement & military personnel making him one of the […]