The Path of Traditional Martial Arts

  by Phillip Starr If I gave you a 500 year-old manuscript on the martial arts (and let's assume that it's written in English), wha...

  by Phillip Starr Shodo is the Japanese term for the art of writing calligraphy with a brush  ( 書道 ). In Chinese, it is pronouned “shudao...

  By Phillip Starr We regularly engage in all sorts of exercises and routines that involvr stretching, toughening, and strengthening many d...

  By Phillip Starr I remember back in the 60’s when the martial arts media first referred to all gong-fu styles as “soft” and arts such as ...

  by Phillip Starr It’s true. We’re all students, we’re all teachers, and we learn and teach all of the time. Just as students learn from...

by Phillip Starr One of the greatest problems that many, perhaps most, martial arts instructors face is that of being able to accurately ve...

  by Phillip Starr We've all heard it...”You have to relax” or “just relax and you'll get it.” Unfortunately, most instructors don...