Can you teach yourself MMA? There are not many fighters around who claim to be self-taught. Particularly notable is Evan Tanner, a competitor from Texas, whose path to the ring started quite late in his school life. Tanner became involved with high school wrestling in his sophomore year, but he didn’t enter the world of MMA…
The story of using sports to extricate oneself out of hardship is repeated across many different cultures and nations, with different sports and disciplines as the method of success. In America, for example, where higher education can be expensive, many young men lift themselves and their families out of difficult lives by pursuing basketball or…
In the world of martial arts, mixed gender competitive fighting is yet to become a true reality. Apart from the odd fundraiser or point making exercise, the only time men and women are seen in the same ring is during some off the wall episode of Wrestlemania. Sadly, women are often subjugated to the side…
Sweden are taking Judo to the next level with some new technology that no only analyses absolutely everything in Dojo, but also keeps track of every judoka’s movement, win ratios, health stats and much more. The scientific approach to martial arts is often dubbed ‘ninja science’ in the martial arts world, and focuses on sports…
If you are practice any sort of martial arts, chances are the most exercise you will do are usual bodyweight and calisthenics exercises. You may have even heard some old-school practitioners be against the idea of traditional strength and weight training, thinking that the body and techniques learned in the discipline will be enough. If…
Martial arts require a good level of physical strength, as well as an incredible amount of mental acuity. Mental strength is so important to martial arts that researchers have found karate experts’ stronger punching force may be down to a better control of muscle movement in the brain, rather than increased muscular strength. Other studies…
A large portion of fight training is spent on erasing bad habits from fighters’ muscle memory. Some actions or stances that might feel natural or reflexive to a non-fighter are actually weak or inefficient. To illustrate this, let’s take a look at some of the most common mistakes of untrained fighters. They throw long, hard-hitting…
Apart from her acting, one of the most notable attributes of Gal Gadot in the Wonder Woman movie was her jaw-dropping physique! But even her regular diet and exercise regimen (Gal Gadot is a model) was not enough to get her to Wonder Woman bod status, and so her trainers formed the ‘Wonder Woman Workout’…
For many people, their relationship with martial arts began at an early age. It’s usually one of the first things a child will seek interest in, if only for the brutal and awesome nature of practicing martial arts. Frequently, parents are on board with the idea of their kid learning karate or taekwondo, because it’s…
Making the target for a weight class cutoff in a combat sport requires a lot of sacrifice and uncomfortable dietary measures, and there are times when athletes are so far off that they resort to extreme weight cutting methods. There’s nothing healthy about rapidly losing weight, nor are there any really safe alternatives to the…