The Little-Known Purpose of Karate’s Supreme Muscle of Madness: Latissimus Dorsi Let’s talk about muscles. We all have them. Some have bigger ones, some have smaller ones. According to ...
Is Your Dojo Getting… Empty? Here’s 19 Unusual (But Effective!) Ways to Change That! Tick… tock. Tick… tock. Tick… tock. You’re standing in an empty dojo. Again. It’...
My 7 Answers to Possibly the Most Fascinating Karate Master’s Thesis Interview Ever? Have you ever wondered about the “possible connection of martial arts and movement to literary and compo...
The Karate Nerd Manifesto So, I keep arguing that you need to become this Karate Nerd™ thing. Most of you, hopefully, kind of, sort of...
The Artsy Fartsy Secret of Karate’s Obsession With Old Masters A black belt from our dojo asked me the other day: “Jesse-san… why are we Karate people always so ...
5 (More) Reasons Why Your Bunkai (Still) (Probably) Sucks Remember that article a couple of months back, where I basically outlined why most bunkai (practical applicati...
The Quick & Dirty Guide to Tameshiwari: Breaking Stuff the Karate Way The crowd in the shopping mall went silent… All you could hear was the Rocky soundtrack (Eye of The Tige...
Will Real Karate Please Stand Up? So, I’m sitting on the plane right now, on my way home from spending yet another two awesome months in beaut...
“Help – I’m Changing Karate Style!” Now and then I receive e-mail from readers who have questions on various Karate related topics, and one topic ...
Morio Higaonna’s 3 Ultimate Lessons of Karate Wisdom Being here in Okinawa, practising Karate and Kobudo with all sorts of masters, gives you an interesting perspe...
5 Simple Reasons Why You Should Love Tradition Tradition. What is it? “late 14c., from O.Fr. tradicion (late 13c.), from L. traditionem (nom. traditio)...