Why I Stopped Practicing My Karate Style. (Maybe YOU Should Too?) “So… what style do you practice?” This is a question I get a lot. (Especially since releasin...
3 Reasons Karate is the World’s Best Martial Art “Which martial art is the best?” It’s an age-old debate. Desktop warriors, fighters, scholar...
Kiken, Kitsui & Kitanai: The 3 K’s of Old-School Traditional Karate Do you know what a koan is? No? A koan is a story, dialogue, question or statement which is used in Zen-practi...
Warning: 93 Signs Your Dojo is a McDojo Imagine the fear: You have been training in your dojo for many years now, but a weird feeling is slowly creepi...
Konishi Yasuhiro: The Hidden History of Karate’s Hardcore Hero Does success always equal fame? If your answer is yes, how come you have never heard of Donald Bradman? Probab...
Quick Guide to Cross-Training in Karate: How, If & Why You Need It Aiiight, so people keep asking me about this “cross-training” thingy. “What is it, do I need...
“Help – I’m Changing Karate Style!” Now and then I receive e-mail from readers who have questions on various Karate related topics, and one topic ...
Legends of Karate: Mabuni Kenwa and his Shitô-Ryû (pt. 1) Sometimes you just read those articles that make you go: “Dang it! I wish I had the patience to write th...
Ryuei-ryu History & Ramblings: Kata Anan This weekend I’m going to do a seminar on the kata Anan, and when I give seminars I always do a theory s...
My System: Karate-jutsu (pt. 2) This is the second part of ‘My System: Karate-jutsu’. If you haven’t read part 1, then you s...
The Jing Method – Trademark or Truth? My friend Jing came over this weekend. Jing, as you probably understand, is Chinese. He is in his mid-tw...