Insights and Reflections

Cus D'Amato posing with his famous "peekaboo" style. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The third tenet I selected for CCMA (Clubb Chimera...

Sharm el-Sheikh is located on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I guess...

The teaching of martial arts is a widespread service offered to the general public in most countries. Like any service, it is expected...

Introduction The cover is a tactic that has soared to prominence in the traditional, sporting and self defence martial arts circles over...

Grappling in Self Defence Grappling has a long and remarkable association with civilian self defence. For example, there are manuals...

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem.  Everything else is...

Image via Wikipedia - Benjamin Disraeli Confucianism , Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism and other religious and philosophical ideas have...

I remember the feeling well. It was 2 nd September 1995 and I was watching my little television mounted on a wall bracket in my room....

According to Winston Churchill , “A fanatic is a person who cannot change his mind and won’t change the subject”. They are words worth...

“There's no such thing as tough. There's trained and untrained. Which one are you?” – Denzel Washington as John Creasy in Man on Fire...

Years ago I read an online martial arts discussion regarding limited training times. A martial arts student had written in with a...

“Why?”: the dreaded single syllable word that a child can use repeatedly to raise an adult’s temperature and stretch his comfortable and...

Picture the scene : you are an eager adult martial arts student with a firm interest in realistic combat methods for today’s civilian...

Image via Wikipedia It’s a sad day when you realise you’ve outgrown your once respected seniors. I began my martial arts training in...

Image via Wikipedia “To know the outcome, look to the root. Study the past to know the future.”Lieh-tzu South Africa: a country of...

Image via Wikipedia “Follow not in the footsteps of the masters, but rather seek what they sought”- Basho “One of the most devastating...

Previously I discussed the social barriers that often stand in the way of teaching children realistic self-protection . In this article...

Image via Wikipedia “I saw you beat him like no other man’s been beat before and the man kept on coming after you. We don’t want any...

“Mordred’s Victory and Other Martial Mutterings” is my first martial arts ebook. Prior to this my written work took the form of the...

Image via Wikipedia Like children and the disabled, violence directed against the elderly often grabs news headlines because of the...