Bruce Lee’s One-Inch Punch Demonstrated During Martial Arts Photo Shoot by...
Second-generation Bruce Lee student Lamar M. Davis II studied under five of Bruce Lee’s original students (Joseph Cowles, Patrick Strong, Leo Fong, Jerry Poteet and Steve Golden). Through this jeet...
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Nunchaku Training: How to Use Nunchaku Techniques Against a Knife-Wielding...
You’re reading a book or an article on nunchaku techniques. You read that a person is confronted by a knife-wielding assailant and the defender slips his nunchaku around the waist of his attacker,...
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Karate Techniques: Master the Knifehand Strike
It’s been called the edge-of-the-hand strike, the ax hand, the shuto, the thousand-hand strike and the judo chop. It can be found in virtually every martial art from karate to kung fu and in every kata...
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Get Fit to Fight With Kelly McCann’s Combative Conditioning Exercises
“Good to go” is a common military colloquialism indicating readiness. Are you physically good to go for an unexpected, violent street confrontation? What’s considered adequately fit in regard to...
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Savate: From the Back Alleys of France to the Martial Arts World
Most martial artists know that savate is the official fighting art of France, but beyond that, they would probably be hard-pressed to recite any details about the style. That’s unfortunate because it...
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How to Do a Shoulder Lock From Inside the Closed Guard | Jean Jacques Machado...
“Training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and feeling comfortable on the ground will allow you to see things that your opponent may not even imagine,” says Brazilian jiu-jitsu expert Jean Jacques Machado in...
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How the Wooden Dummy Can Enhance Your Wing Chun Training
“I fear not the man who practices 10,000 techniques once, but the man who practices one technique 10,000 times holds my respect.” The gist of that old Chinese saying is obvious: The key to reaching the...
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La Canne: Savate’s Walking-Stick Weapon Art
By the 19th century, the walking stick had become the hallmark of distinction, authority and strength. For the gentlemen of the era, it was not only an indispensable fashion accessory but also a source...
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The Art of Teaching Women’s Self-Defense: Less Is Best
In an age when the crime rate seems to be climbing out of control, it’s no surprise women are attending self-defense classes in record numbers. Self-defense instructors often assume that participants...
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Richard Ryan: How Speed-Hand Striking Can Give Women an Element of Surprise
As one of the nation’s leading authorities on self-protection and tactical weapons training, Richard Ryan is a longtime advocate of the scientific approach to self-defense. Richard Ryan is the founder...
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Learn UFC Champ Georges St-Pierre’s MMA Training Tactics
Even if you’re not a fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, by now you’ve probably heard about the ease with which Georges St-Pierre systematically dismantled opponents such as B.J. Penn at the UFC...
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Muay Thai Training Videos: Inside Master Toddy’s Cobra Strike
“Ninety percent of my fighters win using the cobra.” When a statement like that comes out of the mouth of a man who’s renowned as a trainer of kickboxing and MMA champions — people like Gina Carano,...
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Bill Wallace on the Death Touch and Other Martial Arts Myths
The martial arts world is full of myths. They usually start when someone tells a factual story and, as the years pass and it’s retold, it becomes more and more distorted until it bears little...
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How to Get Good at Muay Thai: Roundhouse Kick and Knee Thrust
Before he took up muay Thai in 1993, Black Belt Hall of Famer Alex Gong trained in tai chi chuan, aikido, taekwondo, bare-knuckle karate and judo. While he was being exposed to the hundreds of...
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Learn the Secret of Faster and Stronger Strikes
What if someone pulled you aside one day and told you that it’s not your muscles that determine how quickly and powerfully you can hit, but the quality of your nervous system? What if that same person...
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4 Punches Perfected! Learn to Strike the Way Boxers Do, Part 1
These days, everywhere you look, martial artists are incorporating basic Western-boxing techniques into their fighting repertoire. Although some traditional stylists have resisted this trend, there are...
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4 Punches Perfected! Learn to Strike the Way Boxers Do, Part 2
Punch No. 3: Lead Hook The boxing lead hook is a more or less rounded punch made with the leading hand. It whips around to the side of the opponent’s face or midsection, then snaps back. The hook draws...
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