I think I was in the third grade when I discovered that I could drag my feet across the carpet and deliver an electric shock through...

At a martial art school somewhere in America… Instructor: “All right! Ready to get signed up?” Student: “You bet. I can’t wait to become...

Ever since the proposed 2022 NASKA rule changes were released, then quickly recalled due to complaints about the extremely short time...

Martial arts have long been touted as a way to gain confidence, discipline, self-awareness, and mastery of body/mind stability. As a...

I believe that all human beings are martial artists. Some of us have embraced the artist's way and others are latent with potential. But...

A great artist is measured not just by his fame or even his achievements; he’s measured by his influence on others. Fame alone is...

The Controversial - At the time I started studying martial arts in 1990, there were mainly just stories of incredible feats by martial...

There is no more identifiable person or image associated with martial arts than Bruce Lee. However, he was more than a martial artist,...

Today we talk about the true tragedy of combat sports. That being the majority of fight fans have virtually no awareness of what actually...

Growing up, did you often hear that you’ll grow up to be like the people you surround yourself with? That advice is something that is...

In my previous gym, one of my absolute favorite courses were the womens-only classes. Not only did I have a regular group of intelligent,...

You work hard during every training session. Whether practicing katas, techniques or freestyle sparring, your physical efforts are an...

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” This well-known...

Updated July 8, 2023 This Black Belt Magazine Rankings update comes with a variety of significant changes. New ISKA world champions...

But Peacock has an enduring love for nature and a strong connection with it. After the war, he realized that he needed to get closer to...

You don’t have to spend much time on social media before you stumble across videos of people performing martial arts techniques,...

The first time I heard of Sun Tzu and his classic treatise The Art of War was in the hit movie Wall Street (1987), which perfectly...

Eyal Yanilov is a renowned krav maga authority and the highest-ranked krav maga practitioner today with the level of “expert.” He began...

When you hear the term “combatives,” maybe you immediately envision a tough, muscular, ex-military brute beating the crap out of you...

Saenchai in his prime was one of the best, if not the best, Thai boxers to ever glove up. While most martial artists consider Samart...

When I was 16, taking 30 pills/day and in the hospital every three months, my doctor said I'd be dead in five years from cystic fibrosis...

As Heichichiro Okuse says, it was cunning and deception that gave the ninja the edge over their enemies. These traits were emphasized and...

Find out where the Five Venoms came from, how they evolved in subsequent fight films and why they ruled drive-ins and cable television in...

In this vintage video footage, wing chun kung fu grandmaster William Cheung demonstrates the wooden dummy as a training tool for kung fu...