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A Beginners Guide to the Wing Chun Training System

A walk through of the Wing Chun Training System and why the system is suitable for people from all backgrounds.
Wing chun is probably one of the most well known kung fu systems in the world, mainly due to the exploits of Bruce Lee, who popularised King Fu, especially Wing Chun to the western [...]

Basics Of Aikido

Aikido is a new type of martial art. Its stress lies on the balanced fusion of body and mind with the natural laws of Nature. Aikido concentrates on accepting and respecting the energy of life and nature and channeling this harmony onto strategies that expresses this energy in physical forms.
Aikido is often viewed as [...]

Are Martial Arts Really Violent?

Are Martial Arts Really Violent?

If you know a little about martial arts, you know that martial arts is not at all about violence. The intent of martial arts is, and has always been, to train, educate, and improve the mental health and physical well-being of the participant. It has always held true that some have used the martial arts [...]

Starting Your First Lessons in Karate

First, you can’t simply know about the True Martial Arts, you have to experience them to really know them. To know about is like wondering and fantasizing, to know is to actually do. It is the difference between talking about the word ‘wet’ and actually jumping in the ocean.
Thus, if you speak to [...]

The Making of Fantastic Form in Karate

It was Funakoshi Gichin who asked the very important question: the way, straight and true, who will pass it on? Actually, anybody can have The Way, and it is easily passed on. The key, of course, lies in good, old, hard core physics.
When karate was exported from Japan, it was taught in the old way, [...]

Why has Muay Thai recently become so popular in the US?

I remember when people talking about martial arts mostly spoke about karate and a few about kung fu, but now almost everyone wants to learn muay thai.
Why do you think that Muay Thai Boxing has recently become so popular in the US and around the world?