A short note on the meaning of the word “Karate”. There’s this pervading thought that the word Karate being a homonym… a word that’s spelled the same but means two different things. Karate is spelled with two letters, Kara (空 or 唐) ...
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This is an article from the May 1965 issue of Black Belt Magazine with the title of: “Kuoshu Chinese Fist & Foot Fighting”. The article is about my teacher, Sifu Tim Tackett, who spent nearly 3 years on the island of Taiwan during ...
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Just came across a new “Kickstarter” campaign for a documentary called “The New Masters”. A new documentary project by Sascha Matuszak about the meeting of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) and traditional Chinese Martial Arts (Kung Fu) in China. It’s a pretty interesting ...
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My good friend Mike Blesch wrote an article called “Street Effective” that was published in the August 2014 issue of Martial Arts Illustrated. I was fortunate enough to be a part of the photo sequences in the article. Unfortunately that magazine is ...
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I came across this video on Youtube the other day… (it’s in Japanese but with English subtitles). It’s a 30 minute long Japanese instructional / demo / documentary footage of the legendary Kyuzo Mifune – “the god of judo”, and the 4th ...
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