Technique based training, Principle based training, Drilling based training.

This blog post is going to generalize a little bit, so bear with me. Most schools that are any good do a combination of technique, principle and drilling based learning. However there are still out of date schools around or teachers that are overly focussed on one method over the other. But mostly for the

From the mouth of a striker: Wrestling is the king of martial arts.

I like striking. I started out with it. I think for a slow fat guy I’m pretty good at it. I certainly love dirty boxing, Okinawan karate is a close quarters fighting art, and unlike most Uechi-Ryu schools that give lip service to close quarters combat, we actually did close quarters combat, with head butts

Applications of your own enemies peng/elasticity.

I am going to use the term PENG from chinese martial arts to describe weaponizing the natural elasticity in the body to strike, push or move. While I believe Taiji and many chinese styles particularly study this concept in martial arts more than others, they are far from the only ones to use it or

Kosen Judo didn’t defeat BJJ because Helio was smaller than Kimura.

This post isn’t going to be long. Lots of people who want to claim that Kosen-Judo(Judo before the olympics fucked it up) was still inferior to BJJ in terms of the quality of it’s overall grappling and ground work. Never mind Kimura, Mifune, Maeda were doing De La Riva guard and X-guard long before modern