What does your belt mean?
I don’t wear rank stripes on my black belt. Not because they’re wrong—some systems use them effectively—but because I’ve never believed rank should need advertising. […]
I don’t wear rank stripes on my black belt. Not because they’re wrong—some systems use them effectively—but because I’ve never believed rank should need advertising. […]
Why do good men need the capacity and ability to be dangerous and to be skilled in the use of violence?
“Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life,” Miyagi says in another scene. And for practitioners like Ben Sparks, Darren Gilbert and Paul Love, this belief holds firm through decades of experience, teaching, and personal transformation.
A practitioner’s karate goals shape how you should train. Many YouTube Warriors and Facebook Trolls love to make sweeping and grandly arrogant negative comments about […]
As traditional karate instructors, we are honor-bound to teach our art using the most complete and correct karate instruction manner possible. Doing anything else is […]
The Okinawan term “Chinquchi” deals with the concept of proper body management. In the world of karate, that means coordinating the use of the body’s various muscle groups through the proper order and timing of muscle contraction and relaxation (dynamic tension) during the execution of any given technique.
Generally speaking, in karate we are defending ourselves from an attacker … meaning the attack is already underway. In the street, I am not really concerned about winning. I am much more concerned with not losing.
My shoulder had been projected, rotated, isolated … and then struck. As for my punch – it had a birth, a life, and a death.
Sorry, folks! I have to apolgize. This may be a bit late getting posted, but life has been crazy the last few months with recovering […]
The fastest block in the world does you no good if it is there and gone before the punch arrives.