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]
I’ll lead off by saying that I am a huge fan of the Undisputed series of movies. Undisputed 2 is hands down my favorite. But, we aren’t here to talk about Undisputed 2, we’re here to discuss the latest installment in the Undisputed series: Boyka: Undisputed. Like I said, I’m [Read More]
April Showers Bring May 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 doing good [Read More]
Season 3 of AMC’s post-apocalyptic martial arts drama, Into the Badlands, is here. Into the Badlands Some of you may know how much I enjoy this show. For much of Season 2, I was live-tweeting my thoughts on the episodes as they happened via @whistlekick. I’ve come to really enjoy [Read More]
Once a year Dwight holds a seminar for us on karate. Because one thing we know that thousand-year-old martial arts do each year is… change. – Jim This year, Dwight, you’ve been vindicated. Karate Combat – Elevating and Promoting the Sport of Karate Worldwide This is a new professional fight [Read More]
Master Jhon Cardona Speaks About His School, and His Drive We are back with another Martial Journal Spotlight. This time we are speaking with Master Jhon Cardona, owner of Cardona’s Academy of Martial Arts in Delray Beach, Florida. Master Cardona’s school was featured in a previous Positivity Post a while [Read More]
Spring Is All About Positivity…….Wait, It Is Spring…….Right? 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]
The most badass women I know, all do martial arts. Usually, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Not because BJJ has the market cornered on badass women. It just happens to be what I do three nights a week. In my school of about fifty students, only four or five are women. These women [Read More]
Positivity is Tax-Free! 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 things in [Read More]
In 3 weeks, I will be joining a great fundraiser at Combat Arts Institute of Australia. It is a challenging and fun event that will help raise funds for diabetes research. The event consists of 100, 1-minute rounds of sparring, with only a 10-second break in between each round. Participants [Read More]
Martial arts has many different sides to it. On one hand, you have the most obvious, purely physical side to it. And let’s face it, the physical component of the art is probably the initial draw for almost everyone. However, for most of us, that would not be enough to [Read More]
Senseis Dustin Wagner and Michelle Chock Talk About Bringing Their Dreams to Reality Hot off the heels of the Martial Journal spotlight on UND Hisshou Karate with Sensei La Royce Batchelor comes another! This time it is with two of Sensei Batchelor’s students. Dustin Wagner Sensei and Michelle Chock Sensei [Read More]
I won’t bore you with the mundane of how I became interested in the martial arts I will just get to the story. The year was 2002, I was a 30-year-old, married man with a 6-year-old son. I decided that I wanted to do karate. After talking it over with [Read More]
Kids Content at Martial Journal A few months ago a parent reached out to me asking about stuff for kids on Martial Journal. It seems they’d found the website and their young daughter was asking if there was anything on the site she might like. Well, there wasn’t. Honestly, as [Read More]
You Can’t April Fool With My 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]
A Bridge Too Far: Book Reviews for Herding the Moo by Joe Smith and The True Believers by Louis Martin Martial Arts has always been a positive influence in my life. Has it led to me forgoing certain social opportunities in order to train? Of course, and in fact overall [Read More]
“What’s the best pressure point to strike during a fight?” That was a recent question posted in a karate forum. It wasn’t the question that bothered me but rather the flurry of replies: driving knuckles into the throat, finger strike to the eyes, and a litany of recommended vital point [Read More]
Paint Those Eggs With 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 doing good [Read More]
Ego is at the root of many issues that plague the martial arts world. Bad attitudes, unethical behaviour, ‘sensei worship’ and the ever-present and so-hard-to-avoid constant trash talking that goes on between different competitors, styles, instructors and schools. Martial Journal writer Daniel Hartz recently wrote on ego in the martial [Read More]
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