How To Overcome Nerves in Karate (Before Grading or Competing) Have you ever been nervous before a Karate event? You are not alone! Sleepless nights, extra training sessions...
The Karate Diet Question: Can you picture yourself doing Karate when you’re 70 years old? How about when you’re 80? One f...
The Complete History of McDojos (pt. 2) This is part 2 of ‘The Complete History of McDojos’. Here’s part 1. Long Distance Courses Pe...
The Complete History of McDojos (pt. 1) Dojos used to be different. If you wanted to study Karate under a master in Japan, you had to prove yourself ...
How to Be a Good Karate Parent (Hint: Use These 6 Magical Words) Imagine the horror: You’ve been driving your kids to Karate class, tournaments and camps for years. You&...
The 10 Lessons of Grandmaster Itosu: Revisiting Karate’s Most Valuable Historical Essay People keep e-mailing me on how to learn more about the history of Karate. They’re lost. And I totally u...
Go Kenki: The Undercover Kung-fu Pioneer of Okinawan Karate History is rarely written by losers. And if the modernization of Karate was a popularity contest, the losers s...
Karate Myth Busting: The Secret Truth About Peasants and Karate Lately I’ve been noticing a pretty interesting phenomenon unfold in the world of MMA. You know how, a couple...
Legends of Karate: Mabuni Kenwa and his Shitô-Ryû (pt. 3) Continued from part 2. Mabuni’s teachings and research Mabuni wrote down his beliefs and philosophies ab...
Why You Need To Surf YouTube More To Improve Your Karate So there you are, sitting in front of your computer, sipping some green tea, eating some carrot cake (don̵...
Karate = mc^2 Karate by itself is not a science. It’s really not. Even though people sometimes say it is, I don’...