From the category archives:

Combative Sports

Combat Muay Thai (Muay Boron) Part II

by Grant Bacon November 10, 2009 Combative Sports

4. DEFENSE – A) Blocking/covering (both traditional boxing covers, and a modified Thai covering which allows the defensive cover to be used very effectively as an offensive maneuver). B) Parrying/“hand-tapping” C) Slipping/“head movement” D) Ducking E) Bobbing and Weaving F) Static “Thai”/Shin-check G) Moving/Dynamic “Thai”/Shin-check H) Knee destruction (“Thai” Leg-Shielding, but instead of using the [...]

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Stone Warrior Hand & Arm Conditioning

by Bruce Pahl November 9, 2009 Combat-Fitness & Conditioning

Stone Warrior hand and arm conditioning is a necessary foundation for all martial arts training and conditioning programs. We’ve all heard the story, or seen the Kung Fu movie of the Iron Palm Master who with one palm strike could inflict internal damage or even death on their unsuspecting victims.
While this may be true or just legend, [...]

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Six Key Strategies Every Martial Artist Should Know (But Most Don’t)

by Bruce Pahl October 26, 2009 Combative Sports

This article is an overview of the Free eBook entitled Six Key Strategies Every Martial Artist Should Know (But Most Don’t) that I recently wrote on how a martial artist can greatly improve his or her performance in any martial arts style or method by adding these techniques and focusing their training around these six key strategies.
The six strategies [...]

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The Truth In Combat

by Bruce Pahl September 24, 2009 MMA/Mixed Martial Arts

The Truth in Combat is a martial philosophy and concept. This truth mindset is crucial because most people only think about their personal reality and experience and not truth.
The word reality is being used all the time now in martial arts and combat but most people only have a partial understanding or a perception of [...]

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Sandbag Training For Martial Arts & MMA

by Josh Henkin September 24, 2009 Combat-Fitness & Conditioning

Times are changing, the strength and conditioning field is evolving quickly. With these changes the martial arts are finally receiving the attention they deserve. At the same time this is a challenging time as the martial arts has one of the richest history of sports performance training.
Many martial artists have been turned off by mainstream [...]

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Achieving Martial Synthesis

by Grant Bacon August 11, 2009 Combative Sports

Mixing of the martial arts, and “Mixed Martial Arts”, as a fighting style in and of itself is all the rage right now. Hardly anyone wants to train in a single art anymore and even fewer want to train in any singular “traditional” martial style.
The excitement and brutality offered for consumer/viewer consumption, on a [...]

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