The Path of Traditional Martial Arts

  by Phillip Starr Most group activities (such as meetings of almost any kind) in China involve various foods. And the Chinese truly love t...

  By Phillip Starr The legendary Tadashi Yamashita (10 th dan, Kobayashi Shorin-ryu karate) once said that one of the great “secrets” of k...

  by Phillip Starr One of my senior students who had his own gong-fu club employed a rather unique method to help him determine the sinceri...

  by Phillip Starr The depiction of a catfish swimming around a gourd is a common sort of decoration in the art of old China and Japan. It...

  by Phillip Starr “ The bow is shattered, arrows are all gone. At this critical moment, cast aside all doubts. Shoot, without the slight...

  by Phillip “Pete” Starr Although many martial arts afficionados bow when they enter onto and exit from, the training floor, and to the in...