While I'm still a little young to think about this for myself, my instructor at school has been noticing that his body hasn't been functioning as well as it used to when it comes to martial arts. I was wondering if there might be any suggestions that the older crowd has for augmenting training for s...

Good evening all, my name is Jeff Kelly, and I'm a graduate student over at Florida Tech in Melbourne Florida. I started studying a TKD Kickboxing variant about 4.5 years ago, and was introduced to Ueshi-Ryu by Sean Griffin, Mike Hunt, Mike Branca, and Bob (sorry I forget the last name) about a year...

For me kata has been an opportunity to perfect technique that can later be practiced in drills. It's also a great way to expose a person to a variety of techniques that they can concentrate on learning as they progress in their martial arts careers. Most of my instructors pay a lot more attention to...

In my other style I've only seen the wauke used once, and it was used as a wrist break though we start people out thinking of it as a wrist grab.

I study uechi and Tae kwon Do and have found while there is very little similarity betwen the styles they complement each other well. I switch between the two depending on distance, Uechi=short range TKD=long range, with a sort of combination in the middle. Of course stances are very different and m...

Thanks for the welcome Dana. I think that the presence of a female black belt, gives some of the girls something that they can aspire to. A female black belt joined our class mid-semester and while it was hard to say whether some of the girls stayed in because of her presence or the ones that were g...

I was actually thinking about the same thing last semester at school as several of our best females dropped the class. It's different in the college setting for a multitude of reasons. The main reason is time. While going to class for an hour and 15 minutes isn't much of an inconvenience, with fiveo...

I believe I heard a rumor that Sensei Summers is conducting a short seminar at a dojo in Edgewater Florida tomorrow, the 12th of March...