It’ll Do The Positivity Run In Twelve Parsecs! This weekly post highlights positivity in the martial arts from around the world. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to find negative stories on the internet. Positive ones, however, are harder to find. Let’s recognize and celebrate those martial artists and schools who [Read More]
How Much Tradition is in Your karate? Back in December, Ron Amram wrote a wonderful article titled “Traditional Martial Arts – What is ‘Tradition’?” If you haven’t read it yet, click the link and do so now (or after you read this). His article got me thinking about what tradition [Read More]
Ms. Samantha Lunsford Talks About Personal Growth and Perseverance In Her Journey A while back, I came across this particular story that I knew had to be in a Positivity Post. It was about a young woman, Samantha Lunsford, who had recently competed and won a competition. That may not seem [Read More]
Life is busy. It doesn’t matter whether you’re busy with kids, work, family, social engagements, overtime or trying to find time to clean the gutters… which you were supposed to do last April, but Aunty Susan came to town for Michael’s 50th birthday and stayed with you for a week, [Read More]
I Don’t Hear Yanni Or Laurel…Just Positivity! This weekly post highlights positivity in the martial arts from around the world. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to find negative stories on the internet. Positive ones, however, are harder to find. Let’s recognize and celebrate those martial artists and schools who are [Read More]
42 seconds in combat. Wow. More on that in a moment… Welcome to Karate Combat and Inception Miami April 26 in Miami saw the inaugural fight card for the newly formed Karate Combat league. Aptly named #inceptionMiami, the league promised top karateka engaged in full contact sparring. And they delivered. As [Read More]
Mr. Sanil Gandhi Talks About His Training, What Matters To Him, And Where He Is Going I get to read lots of inspiring stories about martial artists and schools when I put together the weekly Positivity Posts. While all have their merit in one way or another, some stories stand [Read More]
Mr. Mohammed Mahmoud Talks About The Club Now, And Going Forward Things are always changing with the sands of time. This is no different with the UND Karate Club. Mr. Mohammed Mahmoud is the new president of the club. His instructor, Sensei La Royce Batchelor who I previously interviewed, relocated [Read More]
Earn Rank In The Art Of Positivity! This weekly post highlights positivity in the martial arts from around the world. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to find negative stories on the internet. Positive ones, however, are harder to find. Let’s recognize and celebrate those martial artists and schools who are [Read More]
The Martial Arts Teacher – A Painter and a Gardener By Jonathan Bluestein As martial arts teachers, we can learn quite a lot by comparing our craft with other skillsets and types of teaching, art, and cultivation. Here in this article, you will find two such fantastic examples, with very [Read More]
Kickboxer: Retaliation Kickboxer: Retaliation the follow up to 2016’s Kickboxer: Vengeance. The movie begins with Kurt Sloane (played by Alain Moussi) sitting in a train car staring intently at his wife Liu. After a few moments pass, we see the Sloane’s begin a sultry dance. While the Sloane’s are dancing [Read More]
Nicole Beach talks About Her Journey, and Mission, with My Bruises Are From Authoring the Positivity Post here at Martial Journal has put me in contact with so many wonderful martial artists because I found articles about them. In this case, however, a reader sent me a link to an [Read More]
Thanos Should Have Used the Positivity Gauntlet This weekly post highlights positivity in the martial arts from around the world. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to find negative stories on the internet. Positive ones, however, are harder to find. Let’s recognize and celebrate those martial artists and schools who are [Read More]
I am a regular listener of the Martial Arts and Life podcast, and as such knew that the gentlemen who host the show, Lawrence A. Kane and Kris Wilder have also written a number of books. Since I enjoy the podcast, I decided to explore the literary offerings of Mr. [Read More]
Yes, you read that right. The Karate Kid. Let’s face it, it’s not a film that has a tremendous following in the martial arts community. Most don’t hate it. But it’s never on the Mount Rushmore of the genre. There’s an odd sort of resentment that The Karate Kid, of all movies, [Read More]
May The Positivity Be With You! This weekly post highlights positivity in the martial arts from around the world. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to find negative stories on the internet. Positive ones, however, are harder to find. Let’s recognize and celebrate those martial artists and schools who are doing good [Read More]
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