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FIRST BLOOD
Hapkido may well be the world’s most comprehensive self-defense art. To prepare its practitioners for all possible situations, it includes an amazing variety of hand and foot strikes, as well as hundreds of joint locks, limb twists, pressure- point techniques and throws. All that martial knowledge enables the hapkido student to successfully defend against virtually any form of aggression that aris ...
Author: Frank Enloe
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First International Push Hands Meeting, Hanover Report
I've just returned from a nine day stint at a pushing hands "happening" in Hanover. The structure was to have teachers from different styles and countries come together at Nils Klug's place at the Faust Culture Centre. Additionally Nils and friends put on a fun martial arts based show at the local theatre at the beginning of the happening and had demos and what can best be described as "performanc ...
Author: Dan Docherty
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FORGED AT THE CRUCIBLE
It doesn’t advertise. It doesn’t allow civilians under age 28 to attend its courses. It rarely even offers classes to the public. And it requires that students undergo a background check, supply details on every place they’ve lived for the past 10 years and provide a letter from an M.D. attesting to their mental health. But it offers perhaps the best integrated armed and unarmed defensive program ...
Author: E. Lawrence
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From Shaolin Temple to Bruce Lee
As the Millenium turns, there is both a sense of promise and one of history. So for this issue we feel it is only fitting to take the long view, and celebrate the incredible diversity of the Chinese martial arts as it has developed over the past thousand years. However, to really give the big picture we had to back even further since for us, symbolically, kungfu is so well framed between Shaolin a ...
Author: Martha Burr
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From the Strength of Many:
Kungfu Spring 95
It was 1947. The Second World War was over, and Hawaii was a focal point of soldiers and marines at major bases, as well as native Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos and Koreans. This multi-national convergence often created conflicts, especially coming out of war, where fighting was instilled for personal survival; what's more, Hawaii had areas where major settlements of ...
Author: Nes Fernandez
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The Muslim Master of the Old Empire
"In an effort to standardize Chinese martial arts, the People's Republic of China (PRC) established a national ranking system for masters, the Duan sy ...
Author: Gigi Oh
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The Mysterious Martial Mountain
There are three mystic mountains in China famous for martial arts. The first is Songshan (lofty mountain) in Henan Province, home of the legendary cra ...
Author: Gene Ching
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The Poem of Shuai-Chiao Unveiled
Historically, Shuai-chiao has been a system of self-defense in the Chinese military program, and a national sport, which embodies tai chi - the philos ...
Author: chi-hsiu D. Weng Ph.D.
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The Power of Choy Li Fut
The Chinese principle of yin and yang emphasizes the strength in opposites. San Francisco choy li fut practitioner Tat-Mau wong would certainly agree. ...
Author: Marian K. Castinado
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The Power of the Leader Within - The Keys to Martial Arts Life Mastery, Key#1
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Remember that question from your younger days? Adults seem almost programmed to ask it, don't they? ...
Author: Jeffrey M. Miller
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The Practise of Taijiquan
Taijiquan is a number of choreographed movements known as the Taiji Forms. Considered to be an inspired form of Qigong. There are five major styles, C ...
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