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• Striking/Stand-Up (5)
• Throwing/Takedown (16)

The Knife, The Ultimate Trapping Skill Developer?

Article by: Alvin Kan

One method Progressive Protective Systems (PPS) practitioners use to develop is knife sparring within a confined environment. Knife fighting usually occurs with fighters at a distance beyond the reach of the blade in what resembles fencing with shorter implements. Here combat is erratic and twitchy with opponents using catlike movement in and out of the [...]

Wood, Metal, Bamboo

Article by: Dana Abbott

In the following few paragraphs I want to explain the “nuts and bolts” and the “hows and wherefores” for the usage of swords of Japanese origin. Learning how to understand the rudiments of each weapon is of the utmost importance if you are ever going to learn, teach or wield a sword. Whether the sword [...]

Children and the Art of the Sword

Article by: World Wide Dojo

When we think about swords and the martial arts involving swords, we seldom think of children. It seems that the cutting blade and young people don’t mix well or at least that’s the belief in America, when in fact, I suggest that there are ways to introduce the sword at early ages with extraordinary benefits [...]

Firearms Training For Martial Artists

Article by: Vincent Paladino

In the martial arts world, weapons training helps develop qualities that are both advanced and potent. The practice of extending one’s body outward by using an implement, and increasing one’s impact power through the use of weapons, demands greater control and aids in the development of superior focus, mobility and dexterity. But while the use [...]

The Best Block is No Block

Article by: Dana Abbott

The best block is no block at all!! With that said, it is well known and documented that if you try to block an incoming weapon�s strike with your bare extremity, such as a forearm, it will definitely result in pain and more likely injury. Side stepping the strike and letting it safely pass you [...]

Weapons, Necessity or Obsession?

Article by: Michael Sullenger

Many of us train with weapons.� Some of us with firearms, others with a variety of edged and/or impact ones.� The goal with guns is to develop the ability to shoot quickly and accurately at the drop of a hat.� Those who develop and maintain this skill will likely survive an attack on the street. [...]

Basic Sword Concepts

Article by: Dana Abbott

Picture this, the head master grasps the student’s hand as if he were going to shake it in a greeting, but, in essence, he is starting the student’s training. He explains that this is how you grasp a weapon as he withdraws his hand from the student’s replacing it with a sword.� The student has [...]

The Polishing Room

Article by: Dana Abbott

First, a bit of background is in order. In the �70s and early �80s Goju-Shorei had what were known as bucket workouts, which occurred at least twice a year. Bucket workouts consisted of doing kicks, punches, katas and kumite until someone threw up in a bucket that was placed at the edge of the workout [...]

Stick Fight

Article by: Dana Abbott

The patterned sound of click clack, click clack, click clack is heard as the modern stick fighter’s weapon goes through various blocking and striking motions.� These clicks and clacks resemble the orchestrated beats of music, starting out slowly and building speed.� Over time one will be able to execute numerous stick patterns creating a flurry [...]

A Visit with the Late Arjan Sumai

Article by: World Wide Dojo

A visit with the late Arjan Sumai, the last Grandmaster of Krabi Krabong (1914 – 1998) by Terry Tippie I was very sorry to hear of Ajarn Sumai’s (Arjarn Sammai Mashamana) death in 1998. He was an inspiring and gracious man. This article appeared in the TBA Newsletter in 1995 after a brief visit to [...]