Over the years I have received countless communications from operators and civilians who have had to use the skills I taught them in self defence or combat. There must be thousands of such stories out there worthy of mention. This new column to Fight Times is to highlight these real life stories. If you have […]
The 75th Anniversary of Olympic-style Wrestling in New Zealand is to be hosted by the Counties-Hunua Wrestling Club in August 2005. Counties-Hunua is the club that has the largest number of female wrestlers out of all clubs in New Zealand a very successful club too with six New Zealand title holders amongst them. In the […]
Kicking is fun and scoring with a properly executed kick is even more fun. Nobody will disagree. There are hundreds of different ways to kick, and consequently there are hundreds of different ways to train these kicks. The following twelve examples are but a small glimpse of what we consider effective, challenging and most importantly, […]
After a long wait we have finally managed to hold the Awards on the Gold Coast of Queensland, and what a worthwhile wait it has been. This year we appointed AMAHOF Director's Mal Lomax and Peter Kitak to form a sub-committee to organise the 2005 Awards event weekend and they have put their heart and […]
Inivitation R.C Attitude Promotion invites your Gym to participate in the first Mixed Martial Art (MMA) event in New Zealand on 16th July 2005 at QE II Memorial Park Tauranga. Mixed Martial Art is the fastest growing full contact sport worldwide. It's a kind of sport that athletes become professional fighters which give them the […]
When we learn about the Martial Arts it should be remembered that what we are studying are techniques that were designed by and have their origins in the military of the day, to be used in combat which was predominately conducted at close quarters. The fact that what ever style you happen to be studying […]
I received in my email box this week a message from some Shaolin based Martial Art system telling about some amazing video clips that I should see. The video clips were about a US based 'Martial Artist' who had just given a workshop in the UK. So, tentatively, I spent some money to wait for […]
Charity Event – 101 Rounds of MMA One of Wales’ top female martial arts fighters has fought 101 rounds against men in tribute to her father who died of cancer when she was young. Sabrina Cohen raised money for a cancer charity during the five-hour Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) challenge. The 22-year-old firefighter, from Cardiff, […]
Original draft published 1989 When we think of ring combat sports Boxing, Mauy Thai and Mix Martial Arts generally come to mind, however there is another ring art that has, for the past 170 years, had a major influence in Europe – this art is called sport savate. An evolutionary product of Western thought the […]
My most vivid memories from my wrestling career are undoubtedly State, National and Olympic competition. Of course, in order to excel in those events I wrestled in hundreds of tournaments over two decades. However, over 90% of what I remember is from the season-ending events. Winning my first State Championship is one of the most […]