Hunting By Moon Phase: Your Best Season Ever

It's true, you can enjoy the victory of a successful hunt by following the phases of the moon. This fascinating article explains how you can accurately predict when deer and other wildlife are the most active.

Hunting Knife and Sheath- How to Choose the Right One

When choosing hunting knives, there are several things you can look for. This article will tell you what to look for in the perfect hunting knife and sheath for your comfort and safety.

Secret Art of Aikido

Some of the techniques in Aikido include the following. Ikkyo is the first technique. Using this technique you control an opponent by using one hand in holding the elbow and one near the wrist, this action is supposed to make you pin your opponent down in the ground.

Are You a Quitter?

Ok, here's the question for you this week - do you consider yourself a quitter? When faced with challenges, do you find it easier to fight through them or sneak out the back door? Not sure, well let me give you a few scenarios and you tell me what you would've done.

Using And Practising The Traditional Weapons Of Jujitsu

Although there are three main forms of jujitsu today there are actually many styles with completions at all levels. Jujitsu weapons also have their place in competition under very controlled rules and regulations as with all martial arts codes which ensures safety for competitors.

The Wolves Are Howling

The big problem is that the sheep generally don't much like us sheep dogs unless we are saving their lives at that very moment. Therefore many sheep in society tragically see no difference between dogs and wolves.

A Word About The Historic Beginnings Of Martial Art Vital Points

The Vital Point combat arts, has been misunderstood for many different reasons. One reason that needs to be acknowledged is that the early development of these art forms were created to destroy the enemy and the need to make these arts instinctual. There fore in those days the combat arts were a lethal art. It was a war-developed form of lethal hand-to-hand combat, which would render a man inanimate by means of unconsciousness and or death, preferably within one strike.

An Interview with Sensei Bruce Miller Author of Secrets Of Power - The Mental Warrior

BM: I realized that the real power of martial arts was not in the physical side of the realm but instead in the ability to both train and understand the mind. But there have been so many feel good books that didn't give the real facts that I felt it was time to give people who really wanted to know an alternative. This is especially true with Autohypnosis which is a extremely useful mental technique but most people don't know about because there just isn't much factual material out there that is in a format that the non PHD psychiatrist or psychologist can easily understand. Furthermore none of it is really explained in a way that is applied to the martial arts. So I wanted to give martial artists the option of understanding and developing this tool.

The Dead Arm Method

For the first time ever, the mystery of striking vital points will be revealed to you the reader. The much-coveted Dead Arm Method (I call it a method because there are many techniques contained in it) is now made clear to all who wish to understand this specialized method of striking vital points.

Martial Arts Book Review: Karate Kata Heian #5 by Masatoshi Nakayama

Outstanding is how I would rate the author’s layout for all the volumes in the series, and they are presented in such an easy to understand way that it makes each move in the kata look easier than what they really are.

Martial Arts Book Review: Palgue 4-5-6 by Kim Pyung Soo

This book, along with its two companion volumes, demonstrates the correct movements in this particular series of forms which are required for advancement in most Tae Kwon Do schools. These forms are generally required to advance in rank for the intermediate student in Tae Kwon Do. If I recall correctly, I learned these three forms in order to advance from green belt to blue belt, but it has been awhile so I might be mistaken.

Martial Arts Book Review: Palgue 1-2-3 by Kim Pyung Soo

I just finished rereading “Palgue 1-2-3” by Kim Pyung Soo for the first time in quite a few years and was reminded of the firs time I had purchased this and the other two books in the series when I was first starting out upon my martial arts journey whose primary focus in those early days was Karate and Tae Kwon Do. These books were some of the first ones I owned concerning the martial arts and kata or forms in particular.

Utilize The Body's Most Natural Movements In The Most Powerful Way From The Bottom Up

It's hard to get into good kung fu stances, because they are so different from what normally passes for posture in our world...

Martial Arts Book Review - Martial Arts Instruction by Lawrence A. Kane

The approach Lawrence takes in this book is simple, yet loaded with an abundance of information that shows you various methods that you can easily incorporate into your own particular style of teaching regardless of what the particular subject is. I can almost guarantee you that if you purchase this book and study it for a few weeks, and then start applying the information that you have learned, that you will see a notable improvement in your own teaching ability, while at the same time see a marked improvement in your students.