♟️🥋 Distraction Strategy 🥋♟️ This article is designed as a follow-up to my “Martial Arts and Chess” article 🥋♟️, building upon the explorations of strategy and discipline already laid out there. Here, the focus sharpens specifically on the Distraction Strategy 🎯 — how psychological 🧠, environmental 🌍, and tactical ⚔️ [Read More]
Three martial artists from South West Taekwondo Academy (SWTKD) will represent their country on the world stage later this year. Kieran McDermott, 25, Ben Turner, 23, and Elliane Reader, 17, have been selected for the national team. The trio successfully completed grueling try-outs to earn a spot with International Taekwon-Do [Read More]
Martial artists from South West Taekwondo (SWTKD) are celebrating after taking home a medal haul from several competitions this summer. Students kicked off the season with the Elite Martial Arts Professionals (EMAP) Open Championships, which is open to students from different disciplines in martial arts. And the SWTKD team returned with over [Read More]
Strategy and Tactics Using the military aspects of Chess to enhance your Martial Arts Chess and its Military Past I first started playing chess when I was 9 years old and by the time I was 13 years old, I had a chess coach, played in several tournaments a year, [Read More]
MMA is obviously here to stay. This sport gives all martial arts the opportunity to showcase what they do best. Introduction Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a dynamic and evolving combat sport that draws fighters from various martial arts backgrounds. While Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and wrestling have traditionally dominated the MMA [Read More]
Breakdown What are A, B and C Students? Every activity will have participants that fall into an A, B or C category. These categories carry across many platforms from school, to sports, to dance and even martial arts. We are going to break down what each of those are and [Read More]
Is the Style of Martial Arts I Do Important? What style of martial arts do you train in? Is that relevant? I personally believe the idea of styles is dying out. I think there are much more important questions. Why are you training? What is it you are looking [Read More]
Defining Self Defense Every instructor will have their own opinion about self-defense. What is acceptable and what is not? Where they draw the line between excessive force and protecting yourself. And that is OK. Everyone is entitled to their own value or belief system. But when [Read More]
Martial Journal is proud to be a part of and support the Never Settle Awards – helping to recognize martial artists around the globe. At the end of each category you’ll find a link to select your choice for the recipient. Let’s get out and rock the vote. EMISSARY [Read More]
The desire to become a “warrior” appears to have taken over the popular imagination. To the point that, today, it seems one can hardly open their eyes without seeing some form of media promoting a new way to become a warrior. Typically, the purveyor of such products touts their military [Read More]
By Jenni Nather, StaciAnne Kaeleigh Grove, and Joshua Blum The movie that will go down in history as the first appearance of Steven Seagal’s iconic ponytail is a 1990 release from Director Bruce Malmuth. In addition to The Ponytail, the film also stars Steven Seagal in his second major theatrical [Read More]
Mental rehearsals (also known as visualizations) are an excellent tool to use for your training, development, and motivation in martial arts. This tool has been useful to everyone from top professional athletes like Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps to fortune 500 CEOs to ordinary people in therapy. The beauty of [Read More]
Early Influence and Poor Eyesight As a kid, growing up watching the TV show “Kung Fu”, I was entranced by the character of blind Master Po (portrayed by Keye Luke). All the other kids worshipped Caine and wanted to emulate him. Not me. Master Po was my guy. He got [Read More]
Martial arts is a dynamic sport. It allows its practitioners to stand up to oppression and defend themselves and others. As the popularity of martial arts grew, it evolved into multiple disciplines and crossed over to other sparring sports. Different martial artists practice martial arts for different reasons. Some do [Read More]
Any athlete involved in a combat sport is worthy of being called a warrior. If we go back in history, we would find out that most martial arts fighting styles were developed by warriors and later evolved into the current form. Resistance, Strength, and Endurance workout are the way to [Read More]
In the last 2 articles, I wrote about what to do BEFORE and DURING class to learn and perform like a champ. Now I’m going to share with you what to do to take what you recently did in class and embed that knowledge into your long-term memory. This [Read More]
By now if you’ve read any of my articles you know I’m a huge nerd. A martial arts nerd, of course, but also in general. I’m very much into comics, manga, anime and, of course, video games. Nowadays I’m more into single player rpgs, puzzle platformers and metroidvania like stuff. [Read More]
In a previous article, I shared 7 things to do to prime yourself to learn and perform like a champ. Here’s a quick recap: Adopt a champion ATTITUDE. Set a realistic GOAL (for the class and for your overall training). Timeliness (i.e. get to class EARLY.) REVIEW your notes before [Read More]
Any able-bodied person with a functioning brain is capable of mastering their art if they stick with it. This is because your brain can store almost limitless information and memories. According to research, “the human brain consists of about 86 billion neurons. Each neuron forms connections to other neurons, which [Read More]
Introduction I’ve always been fascinated with Xingyi Quan, ever since I saw my sifu teach it a long time ago. Fast forward several years, my sigung (my sifu’s sifu) was giving one of his end of the year seminars. That time he taught Xingyi Quan’s Five Element Liking Form. Of [Read More]
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