The Path of Traditional Martial Arts

  by Phillip Starr The revered “father of Japanese karate”. Funakoshi Gichin, never left his apartment without first combing his hair, wash...

  by Phillip Starr Ink wash painting is an  East Asian  type of  brush   painting  of Chinese origin that uses black ink—the same as used i...

  By Phillip Starr In the midst of the seeming madness of the world in which we currently live, some martial arts practitioners undoubtedly...

  by Phillip Starr The seemingly “empty spaces” that occur frequently between techniques and postures of your forms...aren't necessaril...

  by Phillip Starr All of us, at one time or another, run up against obstacles that seem to block our progress along the path (of martial a...

  By Phillip Starr I think most people undertake the study of a given martial art for self-defense but is that the be-all, end-all of marti...

  by Phillip Starr In most contemporary martial disciplines, there's a lot of emphasis placed on exactly, precisely how a given techniq...