Excellent point,

When atemi waza ( body stiking techniques ) fails to do it's job and illicit a response, causing damage to motor functions is definately the way to go.

I am a big believer in that most people fight the one sense fight. They focus on one point durring their attacking phase and ...

I am gonna have to go with the general feel of the room. I have a Gerber easy-out (40 $)that I carry everywhere with me. It is especially usefull at work for cutting cardboard and the generous blade length (3 1/8th) is big enuff get through a jacket in a self defense situation, yet it is not so big ...

Hello All,
First I would like to start off by saying:

WHERE IS EVERYONE????

Now that that is out of the way, Down to it. Recently a friend of mine that has been away at school tried to grab some training time with some one from another JKD club. They noted some differences in the training methods ...

Rich,
Congradulations on the new rank :multi: . Sounds like a tough course... and then there's mud AND barbed wire... Ahhhh...memories.....BOOOOM :snipersmile: !!!

That sounds really cool the way that USMC is training these tactics. I can also see why they are training this way now. As the ...

Hello there...
I thought Mr. Hochheim's article was very well written. And although his methodollogies are tailored to the Armed services (police, millitary, and let's not forget school teachers), his insights are of great benefit to the martial arts community at large.
One thing that is ...

Hey there ...just wanted to put in my penny on this...
I used to be in the Army and unfortunately, they seem to put minor importance on the use of the bayonet. While the training that we received was a lot of fun... When one got to a unit and began a regular work schedual ( if there is such a thing ...

sounds like the guy got lucky with that kick... good that he got out of there with only a beating and not a stabbing,...

Hello there All....
In class lately where I train, we have been paying particular attention to the the stop kick. In essence, the drill that we are working on is taking one of our legs and thrusting it against our opponent's thigh to stop him in his tracks as he is trying to move forward to ...

Hello All...
Gonna be my first post on this side of the house ( this particualar forum )so please excuse the poor romanization of any Japanese ( sumi masen ).
I think the best thing about joint locking techniques/attacks is that they can serve a variety of purposes with the option to inflict ...