The Path of Traditional Martial Arts

  BY Phillip Starr Many of you may believe that the infamous CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has had very little impact on the martial arts o...

  By Phillip Starr In Japanese, the word d o ( 道 ) means the way, the path. In Chinese, it is Tao (prounced dao). This character appears i...

  by Phillip Starr At the very beginning of any form, there is a brief period where you just stand still in a "natural" stance and...

  By Phillip Starr How often have you heard a student or classmate utter these two words or something similar; “What's next?” This exp...

 By Phillip Starr The legendary founder of Kyokushin karate, Masutatsu Oyama, said that for every 1,000 beginners, only 2 or 3 would make i...

by Phillip Starr In the practice of almost all of the traditional martial ways, participants often engage in prearranged forms of at...

  by Phillip Starr Consider the most notable names of the traditional martial artists of times past and how long they actually trained unde...