Around the world the search has already begun to find the K-1 World Grand Prix Champion 2008. Fighter’s dreams and aspirations have been renewed for the coming year with the best from each country competing until there is only one champion. Eliminations have begun in the European and Asian continents to see who will represent them […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (July 23, 2008) — KICKgen.com, a University of Central Florida Incubation Program company that provides an online community for martial arts enthusiasts worldwide, saw record growth and participation during the 36th annual ISKA-sanctioned U.S. Open World Martial Arts Championship at the Coronado Springs Resort at Walt Disney World recently. Tracy McCoy, chief operating […]
Sunday 29th June saw the running of the 4th Annual World Association of Kickboxing Organisations (NZ) National Tatami Sports Championships. Cold wet weather and other tournaments meant numbers were lower than from previous years, but we still had competitors representing Whangarei, Auckland, Paeroa, Hamilton, Tauranga, Te Kuiti, Hastings and the host town Te Awamutu. The […]
"Your training is a lonely war." When you train, you battle yourself. You wrestle your internal demons forcing your mind and body to bend. We all know the story of the sculpture who was asked how he carved such a perfect warrior from stone. He answered, "The warrior as already there, I just removed the […]
Back in the early 90’s, I put the finishing touches to a highly technical close combat method, which I had developed primarily for military personnel (I was serving at the time). I taught this method to all manner of military and civilian personnel for many years, even elements of the USAF Security Police and the […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — KICKgen.com, the fast-growing Orlando based international web community for martial arts aficionados, will be a primary sponsor of the 36th annual ISKA-sanctioned U.S. Open World Martial Arts Championship July 4-5 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort. Tracy McCoy, chief operating officer at KICKgen.com, said the web community signed an exclusive agreement to distribute […]
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To Stand on a Stone is a set of 50 fundamentals principles that cross the boundaries of style, geographical location or chronological placement, issues that dog the martial artist continually. These fundamentals are brought together from the observations of the human body and the natural world around us, leaving you with a set of rules […]
Keeping in Shape with Wrestling Drills As with any sport, it's important for wrestlers to perform a series of wrestling drills to keep them in their finest form on and off the mat. Since wrestling is a sport that requires brute force and agility, the repetition of these drills not only builds strength in the […]
How to become a competent boxer is one of much hardship in the beginning. Through heightening intensity of training as fitness allows, as result of tolerances growing accommodating harder fitness routines. Slowly as the body recovers from each training session, stamina does grow. So tolerance to achieve better results takes pace of the train of […]