Martial Arts and Modern Life

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

Fabulous clip of 7 stone (44.5 kg) Miss May Whitley giving a lightning introduction to the role of unbalancing   in jiu-jitsu  before throwi...

Here's some 90-year-old footage: judo randori from 1922 featuring a young Kyuzo Mifune (then only a fifth dan!) in action. Lovely t...

Today I attended the funeral of our Kancho, who died last week suddenly and unexpectedly at his home. Barry William Bradshaw, 1939 - 20...

Kyuzo Mifune was possibly the greatest judo technician ever.  Beginning Judo training at age 13 or 14, by 30 he was already a 6th dan under...