mabuni Archives | KARATE by Jesse

July, 1921. World War I is officially over. Japan’s economic bubble is exploding. To keep people from ...

Thirteen. That’s how many letters Iain Abernethy’s name contains. Thirteen is also the number of l...

I’ve said it before. But I’ll say it again: I’m a sucker for quotes. Good quotes, weird quot...

This weekend I visited Berlin – the capital of Germany – for the first time. In case you havenR...

Fun fact: At the tender age of twenty-three, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic p...

Somebody died and made me king, emperor and dictator-for-life of Karate therapy online. Here’s my latest...

Continued from part 1. Mabuni and Kobudô One aspect rather rarely reported about Mabuni Kenwa is the fact tha...

Sometimes you just read those articles that make you go: “Dang it! I wish I had the patience to write th...

I don’t know about you, but I have tons of metaphors for describing Karate. Most of them are pretty stra...

This is the second part of ‘My System: Karate-jutsu’. If you haven’t read part 1, then you s...

Translated by Mark Tankosich MA, this essay, originally written by the founder of Shito-ryu Karate (Mabuni Ke...