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 [...]

World renowned expert in BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) Pedro Sauer has made a video to improve your lapel chokes.  A well-respected seminar presenter noted for his technical accuracy and elegance, Sauer runs one of the largest jiu jitsu organizations in the world with over 250 affiliate schools. Sauer earned his black belt studying under Helio [...]

Jesse Enkamp bemoans the loss of childhood with all its passion for living and big dreams. He remembers wanting to be a pirate, an astronaut, an alien, and a kung-fu master. But along the way of growing up he complains we all are swayed from our passion into a comfort zone. We educate ourselves to [...]

Jackie Chan, in cooperation with the government of China, has begun plans to open a Jackie Chan theme park in Yizhuang, a suburb of Beijing. Yizhuang once belonged to Chinese royalty as a hunting grounds. Today Yizhuang has turned into Beijing’s Economic and Technical Development Area. The theme park will showcase five major themed areas [...]

This is hilarious. A woman invites her two friends over for tea. They discuss a poor mutual friend of theirs who was mugged at the mall. The woman invites her loving son, a huge football player who has killed four opponents this season alone, to play along with her as she demonstrates her powerful moves. [...]

In this video Tai Chi master Yang Zhen He demonstrates high level Tai Chi himself and with his students. Notice the varying ages practicing the art. Watch how a young student practices his technique while walking under a table. The beauty of the movement by the entire class in only highlighted by the beauty of [...]

This video tutorial shows the scientific explanation of why muay thai fighting, escrima, and karate works. These computer generated images show how the human body can act as a weapon, with or without hand held weapons, delivering death blows. It begins by analyzing the side kick. It explains how the power comes from the torque [...]

Larry Tatum demonstrates Kenpo karate moves in this well-executed video with music. He begins with sparring techniques. He demonstrates how keep your guard up from which you can use defensive as well as offensive moves simultaneously. He hits the opponents hand away, while making a quick strike with his other hand to the opponents head [...]

This video, spoken in Spanish, teaches the proper technique and positions for moving forward with Kumite karate. Spanish speaking student will have no trouble learning these well executed karate moves, but even non-Spanish speaking students will understand the universal language of body moves. The video starts off showing the move in slow motion. Then it [...]

Calling all kids who want to learn karate! Watch this video and see how fun karate can be for you. Pay attention to the workouts designed to give even a weakling a strong body. Can you imagine yourself demonstrating these very cool moves to your friends? Watch the full video here: karate is the most [...]

In this fun, tongue-in-cheek karate video, a young man demonstrates five of his own style karate tips, using two backup fighters behind him who put karate into a dance form. First he demonstrates the “falcon claw” a basic hand strike. Second he demonstrates “a karate body,” in which he shows a “great workout” by squeezing [...]

This video shows how to make a proper Oizuki hip rotation. First the class practices the moves one at a time together in a line. Next the instructor uses a student to demonstrate proper positioning of the arm, the fist, the leg, and the hip. He explains what to do if the opponent hits back. [...]