Launching Friday 11th March:

Ananko Kata Form & Function Online Training Course!

Nice new Youtube channel I came across. Good bunkai (mainly grappling oriented) delivered in a quick modern approach.

https://www.youtube.com/c/KarateBreakdown/featured

Few examples:

Gojushiho knee-tap throw (they thought it also resembles Pinan Sandan): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzGgPqjgnAM

Kushanku Uchi Mata:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gj3TmZVeJw

Naihanchi / Tekki, Kata Bunkai by Helmut Kogel

Merry Christmas!

In these difficult times I managed to get some of the best martial arts teachers to share their knowledge with you on their rules for success.

I hope that you will find this small gift from us of benefit and are able to use some of the suggested rules to support your martial arts development.

“Dragon and Tiger” is a varied and lovingly illustrated collection of traditional and modern stories about wisdoms and truths that we associate with the martial arts. Girls and boys, craftsmen and princes, monks and masters, animals and mythical creatures inspire our imagination with their experiences and invite us to empathize, reflect and ask questions.

So I hate to spam the board needlessly but I just stumbled onto this while surfing youtube and its basically Karate netflix. It looks like Patrick Mccarthy and a John Burke are already on there. I'm guessing the european members might know who that is. There's also a lot of okinawan seminars and bunkai as well. And it might be something that maybe Iain might want to look into? At least his older stuff at any rate.

There's a promo code so your 1st month is free, its: STAYSTRONGUK

Lee Taylor Karate Online Training - Launches 1st October

Pete Cordell has written a new book on the applications Palgue forms, and is making the PDF freely available:

Palgue Bunkai: Decoding the self-defence syllabus contained in the Korean karate Palgue kata series

I bought this book based on enjoying this genetleman's website, found here: http://www.functionalselfdefense.org/

This is quite a good book. I am not sure I have seen a self-defense book before that is this general and comprehensive, but manages to keep it simple, and not go off on tangents, as well as teaching some stuff that one could immediately implement in a class or with a training partner.

Check out this great new podcast! I really enjoyed my conversation with Josh!

All the best,

Iain