bsc Eric Knaus of Dog Brothers fame (Check out his history of the evolution of full contact here.) teaches how to strike the knee properly. bsc He begins by explaining what really happens when someone gets hit in the knee with a stick. Credit goes to the Dog Brothers for exploring real full contact [...]
You’ve probably never heard of him. I hadn’t until this week. Billy Miske’s boxing story is without a doubt the greatest story of courage and human dignity in all of boxing, if not all of sports. bsc Billy Miske was a fighter in the early days of boxing when it still had the aura of [...]
bsc bsc I’m pleased to share these videos of Grandmaster Maranga. The second video of him leading a seminar in Spain gives you an idea of his personality, a guy who is tough, but also has a genuine sense of humor and humility. GM Maranga, not being one to puff himself up or to wear [...]
bsc Buford Pusser is an American hero who stood up for justice and tragically died before his time. Like Carrie Nation, he is famous for a weapon — in his case, the big stick. Just as Carrie Nation standing with an upraised hatchet created a compelling image of someone with the means and determination to [...]
Carrie Nation, or Carry A. Nation as she billed herself, was a woman of the late 1800′s who worked for the prohibition of alcohol. Her first attempts to rally people against saloons and drinking were not very successful. bsc A deeply religious woman, she had a vision that God wanted her to rise up against [...]
A comment by Debra Hartsell has made me aware of a website, jkdassoc.com, dedicated to the late Sifu Larry Hartsell. bsc Check out the article here providing several technique chains. What is noteworthy is that Sifu Hartsell was doing MMA before there was MMA. bsc I’m also reminded of the controversy in aikido. Gozo Shioda [...]
Boxing great “Smokin’ Joe Frazier” has died. bsc He defeated Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden, billed as the Fight of the Century. Frazier just nuked Ali in the 15th round, dropping him with a crushing left hook. bsc The ugliness of Ali should not go unmentioned. After Malcolm X had championed an unknown Cassius [...]
When I was a teenager I got swept up in the martial arts craze fueled by Bruce Lee movies and David Carradine’s Kung Fu TV series. At the time my best friend was Terry Armentrout, and we took kenju together, made our own nunchaku (with near disastrous results), and tried to find out everything we [...]
See it here. I was surprised to see the extent of Filipino-Americans who were boxers, many of them successful. Here are a couple of examples: Francisco Guilledo Nicknamed “Pancho Villa,” this boxer from Negros Occidental, Philippines, rose from obscurity to win the World Flyweight Boxing Championship in 1923. He was never knocked out in his [...]
I’m betting that many “blade-based” styles are not blade based.
