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by mansionwb Secrets of Bruce Lee’s Fighting Style – Street Self Defence Bruce Lee is surely one of the greatest martial artists who ever lived. Every martial art from aikido to Choi Kwang Do has it’s own master and students of that art will see their master as the greatest but Lee stands out above [...]

by ellengwallace Mixed Martial Arts- A Popular Self Defence Technique Martial Arts, various kinds of fighting arts, with or without weapons, most of which martial arts are now practiced throughout the world. About 100 million people participate in the martial arts as a means of self-defense, physical fitness, mental tranquility, and competition. There are about 200 distinct martial arts, [...]

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Most of the people who learn self defense techniques through martial art training do so in order to be able to defend themselves. It’s a wild world we live in and self defense skills are important to prevent potential attacks and to give yourself enough self confidence to survive. Although people are looking for martial [...]

Chi Energy For Self Defense For many, Martial Arts and the Art of Self Defense are wrapped in a sort of self discipline and concepts that involve harnessing your center or Chi. But just getting yourself “centered” before a match or when you are  training should only be the beginning. You must realize the TRUE [...]

Many people choose Karate as their choice for self defense, both for themselves and for their children. Many soon come to realize that even though they have become black belts, they still get their butts kicked by non-trained fighters. Why exactly is this? Many people go on about how awesome Chuck Norris is. “Chuck Norris Facts” [...]

So you’ve decided that with all the news about random muggings or home invasions or whatever, that maybe it is time to learn martial arts, or at least get yourself some self defense training.  You’ve been looking at getting into better shape.  Why not get better at defending yourself at the same time. Now you’re [...]

It seems that martial arts is no longer something that appears in Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, or Steven Seagal movies (the latter squinting more arbitrarily than his nationality seems to actually provide).  It seemed that being a ninja or “karate master” was no more than something regarded as fantastical or else a childhood phase up [...]

Self defense instructors hear some variant on this question all the time: “Of all the self defense tactics you know, which one is the most effective?”  Extensive research into hundreds of answers from hundreds of instructors have led to two self defense tactics that cropped up over and over again.  Both appear in almost every [...]

There is a serious, even deadly problem in the world of martial arts and self defense. Most people assume that if someone has their black belt or competes in martial arts competitions that they already know how to defend themselves, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Having a Black Belt in any martial [...]