Taking MMA to Strange New Levels

Here is the link. I see nothing sportive about this, but I do see a fatality in their future if this is pursued. I really hope this idea goes nowhere. I am sure at some point the developers were sitting around throwing ideas around an one said, “UFC!” and at the same moment another said,…

Why every child needs martial arts.

    Due in no small part to the fact that I work for KICKSTART KIDS, I am asked on at least a weekly basis “should my child train in the martial arts?”, “Would martial arts help my kid with…(insert childhood challenge here)?”, and so on. In this article I am going to list the…

Pseudoscience and Drama…

                Okay, the time has come once again to address some very strange claims made by a couple of people involved in the Chinese Martial Arts. Before we begin, I would ask you to watch this video:                 From the opening line, “It is called Qigong…” this is all about drama. There is very little…

Don’t Fool Yourself

The topic came up recently on the Iain Abernethy forum and I thought I would give my take on the subject. Very often in the martial arts we approach our subject with a kind of arrogance that is not well founded. When we train, we tend to use the term, “untrained street fighter”. The arrogance…