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The following is a guest post by my brother Oliver (website here) who happens to be a fighter, coach and ins...

Click to download: Just when you thought the history of Karate was way too complex to even understand &...

Continued from part 2. Mabuni’s teachings and research Mabuni wrote down his beliefs and philosophies ab...

So, it’s been almost 17 years since Henry Rollins first got his famous essay Iron and The Soul published (i...

This weekend I’m going to do a seminar on the kata Anan, and when I give seminars I always do a theory s...

Translated by Mark Tankosich MA, this essay, originally written by the founder of Shito-ryu Karate (Mabuni Ke...

The following article is composed from different quotes and teachings of the late Shuri-te Karate expert Chiba...

Here is the second part of the article on “the styles of Karate”, written by Kanken Toyama (1888-1...

Today I thought I would share one of my absolute favourite articles ever written on Karate. It’s about t...

As I have written before, the system I train in has strong influences from a man named Fujita Seiko (1899-1966...

Gusukuma Shinpan (1890-1954), also known as Shiroma Shinpan (Gusukuma is Okinawan dialect) was a master of Kar...