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by Morne Swanepoel Many a times have I heard Martial Arts instructors & schools state the amount of techniques they know etc. and classify themselves at different levels with these achievements. I think we can all agree that there is Unlimited amount of techniques to study in any Martial Art system and that we all …
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By Morne Swanepoel The Defensive Edge (A look at realistic Knife fighting) ‘The most constant thing in life is change. Everything that has been mummified belongs to the past. Mummification is a blockage in the body, there is no spirit. We are all alive and need to progress and go beyond…’ – Morne Swanepoel In …
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By Morne Swanepoel ‘Knowledge is not power, the ability to apply your knowledge is true power.’ I am often surprised by how much the word ‘practical’ or ‘effective’ is used to describe a certain Martial Art system. While I agree that many fighting skills are practical and effective within realm of fighting, I question how …
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By Morne Swanepoel The end of the last century saw the birth of a new era in the Martial Arts world. With the advent of events known variously as ‘Ultimate fighting’, ‘No holds-barred’ matches and ‘Mixed Martial Arts’, martial artists across the world learned the value of learning more than one art, and becoming complete …
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By Morne Swanepoel South Africa is known as the land of sunshine and scenic majesty. The world’s strangest and most dramatic landscapes…nature’s richest treasure chest of gold and diamonds…a unique wealth of animal and plant life…a kaleidoscope of exotic, sun-blessed people…can there be a land anywhere on earth more enticing than Southern Africa? Southern Africa …
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by Darren Laur Edged weapons are amongst the most ancient of implements usedby human adversaries engaged in interpersonal conflict. Their use tends to culminate in the premature extinction of one and sometimes both parties. Unfortunately the potential lethality of the blade is not always realized or taken into account when confronting a knife-wielding attacker. There …
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by Darren Laur Acknowledgements: In preparing this post, I have attempted to put into writing some of the information that I have gleaned over the years specific to self protection and the “way of the street” In doing so , I had the opportunity to integrate a number of ideas and concepts from others …
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by Harvey W. Liebergott (Originally published in T’ai chi Magazine. (Vol 23.No2) This article is in PDF, click here to read it.
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by Mike Murphy “In deference to the ways of bujutsu, a master of budo is one who had never used his skill.” Unknown Budo is an entity that cannot be touched, heard, or seen; “a journey of the mind and the spirit, and ultimately, the soul,” according to martial arts author Dave Lowery.1 It is …
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By David Elkins and Rik Lostritto, Ph.D. Stone Lifting Stones have historically been lifted for single repetitions, multiple repetitions, timed repetitions, carried for distance/time, thrown forward and backward, rolled, and simply held for time. Oh yes, they have also been broken into little pieces with heavy sledges (not always voluntarily.) Their use has almost always …
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