Learn 5 Drills for Improved Jeet Kune Do Techniques From Jeet Kune Do...
If you ask almost anyone the main reason they take a martial art, they will usually say it’s for defending against a possible attacker. The other main reason is health, and while the drills in this...
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UFC Fighter Frank Mir’s MMA Diet and MMA Workouts for Powering Up His MMA...
Frank Mir is one of the most compelling UFC heavyweights for a number of reasons, not the least of which is, after the motorcycle accident he had in 2004, he wasn’t supposed to be alive. With his...
View ArticleImprove Your MMA Training With Lyoto Machida’s Shotokan Karate Techniques and...
Lyoto Machida’s figured out how to make traditional karate work in the octagon. At the Ultimate Fighting Championship 129, the shotokan karate stylist knocked out UFC Hall of Fame member Randy Couture...
View ArticleImprove Your MMA Training With Lyoto Machida’s Shotokan Karate Techniques and...
In Part 2 of our three-part analysis of Lyoto Machida’s fighting techniques, we look at his grappling, timing, striking and counterfighting. (Be sure to read Part 1 of our analysis!) The shotokan...
View ArticleHee Il Cho Talks About His Early Years Practicing Taekwondo in South Korea
Legendary taekwondo master Hee Il Cho was about 10 years old when he started studying the martial arts. That was back in the 1950s when South Korea was in a state of chaos because the Korean War had...
View ArticleChoy Lay Fut Kung Fu and Its Secrets for Fighting Multiple Attackers
One of the leading choy lay fut instructors in the United States is Chi Chung Kwong. Kwong was born and raised in Canton, China, where he began martial arts training as a child. During his youth, he...
View ArticleMartial Arts Video Columnist Antonio Graceffo Studies Silat Techniques and...
Travel to Malaysia with Antonio Graceffo, author of the book Warrior Odyssey: The Travels of a Martial Artist Through Asia, in this installment of his ongoing series of international martial arts...
View ArticleCapoeira Kicks: An Overview of the Brazilian Art’s Fancy Foot Techniques...
Capoeira Angola is often referred to as the traditional form of capoeira. Dating back some 300 years, the art originated when the first African slaves — from Angola, the Congo, Guinea and other nations...
View ArticleJhoon Rhee: Why Martial Arts Discipline May Be the Key to Happiness
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in the March 2004 issue of Black Belt magazine. The time and age references have been left intact for this posting. Violence lives in our schools and...
View ArticleTang Soo Do Self-Defense Moves Video: C.S. Kim and Y.D. Kim Demonstrate an...
C.S. Kim wasn’t particularly tough when he was young. Like millions of other kids around the world and plenty in Songtan, South Korea, he had problems with coordination and self-esteem. What made C.S....
View ArticleNinjutsu Training Commentary and Video by Jack Hoban, Student of Grandmaster...
Jack Hoban is one of the founding fathers of American ninjutsu. He rode the wave of ninja-mania that struck during the 1980s, and he weathered the drought that moved in when the popularity of ninjutsu...
View ArticleMark Hatmaker: The Importance of Drilling for Traditional and Mixed Martial...
Drilling is repetition, plain and simple. The very word implies performing a task so often it’s “drilled” into your skull. The word “training” carries the same sort of single-focused connotation — a...
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Shorinji Kempo: Shaolin Kung Fu’s Kicking Cousin
Although martial arts movies and magazines have caused the popularity of numerous arts to skyrocket, shorinji kempo remains a mystery to most people. Even martial arts enthusiasts are frequently...
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Combatives Expert Kelly McCann Shows You How to Use Live Partners in...
Combatives and self-defense expert Kelly McCann comments on use of live training partners in this exclusive combatives training video! McCann details certain commonplace aspects of martial arts...
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Searching for Tony Jaa: The Hottest Martial Arts Movie Star Since Jackie Chan...
Editor’s Note: In Searching for Tony Jaa: The Hottest Martial Arts Movie Star Since Jackie Chan and Jet Li (Part 3), international correspondent Antonio Graceffo talked and trained with Tony Jaa’s...
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UFC Fighter Frank Mir’s MMA Diet and MMA Workouts for Powering Up His MMA...
Frank Mir is one of the most compelling UFC heavyweights for a number of reasons, not the least of which is, after the motorcycle accident he had in 2004, he wasn’t supposed to be alive. With his...
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Booboo Stewart: Exclusive Footage of X-Men’s “Warpath” With Sister Fivel...
Back in the 1970s and ’80s, America’s youth signed up in droves for traditional martial arts training — often at the urging of their parents, who hoped karate, taekwondo and kung fu would teach their...
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Aikido Moves Video: Haruo Matsuoka Behind the Scenes at Black Belt Magazine!
The June/July 2014 issue of Black Belt magazine will feature a cover story on aikido’s Haruo Matsuoka, a student of Seiseki Abe and the former chief instructor at Steven Seagal’s Tenshin Dojo. In the...
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Gokor Chivichyan Grappling Video: How to Execute a Takedown and Heel Hook
If you’re into real grappling techniques, only a few names should come to mind — and one of them should definitely be Gokor Chivichyan. Gokor Chivichyan — who was inducted into the 1997 Black Belt...
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Israeli Martial Arts: Krav Maga Expert Eyal Yanilov Shows You How to Disable...
Eyal Yanilov is, by far, one of the most respected krav maga practitioners in the world today. He is currently listed as “master level 3/expert level 8″ in krav maga — the highest rank krav maga...
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