On the street, he who hits first, hits the fastest and hits the most almost always wins. Street fighters know that no matter how big, strong or skilled a person may be, he is vulnerable to a sudden, overwhelming assault. That’s why the most proficient street fighters use deception to get as close as possible to their victim before launching a relentless attack. They know that if they can get the c ...
Author: Richard Ryan
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1500 Years
A variety of more detailed history of the Shaolin Temple can be found throughout the different Shaolin articles in this issue. However, we present you here with a capsulized version of the Temple's past 1500 years to better contextualize the multi-faceted story of Shaolin. -Ed.
Origins
The origins of Shaolin Temple are perhaps the most famous and mythologized part of its hi ...
Author: TC Media
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A man walks into a bar. A funny old guy sees that he's looking blue, so he asks, "What's troubling you, lad?" The man sighs. "My name is Lu Yen, and I've failed the examinations twice. Tomorrow is my last chance to succeed, but I have little hope." The old man's eyes sparkle as he replies, "Come with me and I'll show you the way." Lu Yen follows the old man to a cave in the mountains. It's a long ...
Author: Gene Ching
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I have been a student of the 2,000- year-old art of tang soo do for almost 33 years—and an instructor for nearly 27 of those 33. I have always endeavored to learn as much as I could about the art and its origin, and in that quest I have heeded the advice of my first teacher, Jae Chul Shin: “To learn the truth about something, go back to the beginning.”
Through extensive readings, journeys t ...
Author: Dominick A. Giacobbe
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Bruce Lee was the foremost martial arts pioneer of the modern era. If he was not the best of his time, he was certainly one of the most knowledgeable and well rounded. In Enter the Dragon, he displayed his vast array of combat skills and mastery of cinematic choreography. The famous duel between him and Bob Wall illustrated his almost frightening ability to crush an opponent at close range. Before ...
Author: Richard Ryan
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What is it about defending against punches that oftentimes causes martial artists to question their abilities? If you were to ask the average new student what aspect of self-defense he or she would most like to learn, the majority would respond with punch defenses. Why is this the case? It's simple: Throwing a punch, a slap or any sort of hand attack is one of the first lines of offense or defense that we learn as children, and usually the first method of attack we see when exposed to some form ...
Author: Luke Fraser
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You went on to England from the USA?
Yes. England is, to me, like coming .home. I have people teaching there who are my own students now and I like them a lot. I went to Manchester first of all for our Northern England representative, Steve Hurst. Steve was one of Master Chu King-hung's instructors and now, for reasons of his own, has decided to come along with us.
What is Steve's background?
Steve has been involved in the Martial Arts for many years. He started in Karate ...
Author: Sensei Ron
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Although best known in the west for his dynamic swordsmanship skills and movie appearances ('Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles', 'Black Rain', 'Ghost Warrior' and countless Japanese Samurai movies), Sensei Toshishiro Obata, is primarily a highly accomplished instructor of Aikido, Aiki-Jutsu and various Okinawan weapons arts. His weapons specialities include the sword, nunchaku, tonfa, bo and double kama. Obata Sensei is a long-time student of Taizaburo Nakamura (Nakamura and Toyama schools of swords ...
Author: David Chambers
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FROM ITS OBSCURE origin in the backyards and garages of Brisbane in the 1970s, interest in the once little known art of Silat Perisai Diri in Australia has grown to the point now where 250 exponents train in 10 club venues across the nation. The Keluarga (or Brotherhood) Silat National Perisai Diri Australia club now boasts seven venues in Brisbane, one on the Gold Coast, another in Townsville and, more recently, one in Adelaide. Understandably, with this growth has come a greater understanding ...
Author: STEPHEN CUE
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Fights don't just happen. There are always pre-fight cues of various forms that can be detected and acted upon. Generally, we can, for ease and convenience of training, think of self-defence in various phases: opening, midgame and endgame.
Chess players among you will note that this corresponds directly to the phases of the great game. Chess is the battle field on a board, and often people liken sparring to a game of chess in the context of 'thinking one or more moves ahead', but the an ...
Author: Bill Burgar
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