A teenage girl attempts to use a karate kick in this just-for-fun karate street fight demonstration. Maybe the girl should have chosen something looser to wear than her tight denim mini-skirt. Maybe the girl needs to go back to her dojo for further instruction. Maybe the girl needs to sign up for karate lessons at [...]

An article appeared in Black Belt magazine back in 1968 featuring the father of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, who was 85-years-old at the time, and still practicing the martial art of Aikido, bringing down to the mat young men stronger than himself. The magazine tried to get some straight answers from the O-Sensei about the art [...]

  The second season of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series begins Saturday, October 12. The first episode “The Mutation Situation” shows how our four turtle heroes have discovered that alien Kraang has survived their last showdown ending the last season. Kraang has dropped mutagen canisters all over the City, and worse, has [...]

Jason Sam of the Marshall Islands won the gold medal at the 2013 Pacific Mini Games. By knowing that he would face competitors who were all trained differently seemed to diffuse Jason’s nerves before the competition. After getting through the first round Jason felt more confident, relaxed and strong. His final match put him against [...]

  Kelsey Junius, a junior of South Windsor High School, Connecticut, competed at the 7th annual Pan American Taekwondo Championship in Queretaro, Mexico, and brought home the gold medal. Competing against seven girls in her division she kept her eye on the goal: the opportunity to make the 2014 Youth Olympic Taekwondo Team, and an [...]

These four videos demonstrate the beautiful, graceful art of Wushu, a combination of martial arts, dancing, and arcobatics. Wushu has become an international sport with required routines at all levels. The first video shows Jet Li at age 8 performing Wushu. The second and third show World Wushu Champion Jade Xu. The fourth is from [...]

In these two video clever techniques are used to overcome a much larger opponent. In the first video a woman wins a friendly wrestling match with a man much larger around than her before a huge crowd of spectators at a fair or festival of some kind. She uses a duck under throw that happens [...]

Joe Lewis says the victor of any sport is the one who makes the least amount of mistakes. Therefore, he has comprised a list of common errors to avoid when training in kickboxing. The first six are as follows: Try to counter when you should lead the attack Failing to step when you punch Rushing [...]

Francisco Filho accepted a challenge to a 100 man kumite. He has to fight off 100 men of varying skill levels one at a time for no more than one and a half minutes each. Filho has actually succeed twice in this competition. After winning the World Open Tournament in 1999, he became a K-1 [...]