Martial Arts and Modern Life

The mat's looking pretty full nowadays. With a large class it's starting to get cramped during warm-ups: Warming up with some br...

The acronym of the day is FOOSH.  It stands for Falling On OutStretched Hand.  John Coles has written an informative post on FOOSH injuries ...

As a postscript to my theme for March, beautiful breakfalls , I want to point out that although learning to breakfall greatly reduces the ch...

I have discussed breakfalling and related drills and motivations in previous posts this month. This time I turn to breakfalling from actu...

In the dojo we practice our throws -- and breakfalls -- on a 5 cm (2 inch) thick rubberized mat. But do they work in real life? First, an...

How do we acquire beautiful breakfalls? 1. System & practice In our system we are serious about breakfall practice.  Rather than do cali...

Our second theme of the month -- we resumed in February -- will be beautiful breakfalls . Anthony demonstrates the side-breakfall warm-up e...