Everyone reading this magazine shares a common goal: to become a better martial artist by increasing your strength, enhancing your endurance, maximizing your flexibility and improving your agility. Some of you attempt to accomplish that by performing traditional exercises from ages long since passed, while others hit the local health club for your body-conditioning needs.
While those strate ...
Author: Fitz
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When a man can tow a truck with his genitals, that's all anyone ever really remembers about him. It’s a hard act to follow. What could possibly be more extreme? Iron crotch is the rarest of disciplines and anyone who masters it is an exceptional practitioner. Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng is undeniably exceptional, but he’s exceptional even if you overlook his truck towing skills. Tu has a lot of irons ...
Author: Gene Ching
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Black Belt first reported on Mark Shuey Sr. and his combat cane in its December 2000 issue, and the response from readers has been tremendous. The Incline Village, Nevada-based instructor is so in demand across the United States that his list of seminar engagements keeps him on the road up to 40 weeks out of the year. Hundreds of schools are incorporating cane techniques into their curriculum, and ...
Author: Robert W. Young
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In the three centuries prior to the 1600s, Japan existed in a state of turmoil. The various arts of war were defined and refined in training halls and battlegrounds from one end of the island nation to the other.
In 1575 the combined armies of Oda Nobunaga and Ieyasu Tokugawa used firearms against the heavy cavalry of the Takada clan, killing 15,000 of them. In 1588 Emperor Hideyoshi ordere ...
Author: Brian Jacobs
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A few days ago I was sitting at my terrace with some friends talking about the warrior ways whilst having a glass of wine. I like to have a good glass of wine now and then and especially when it is a Spanish red wine.
I was looking at the colour of the wine in the glass and appreciating the different aromas of it.
I realized that black belts instructors are much like wine and most st ...
Author: Peter Vermeeren
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