There is a karate NGB now actually, British Karate Federation, basically something had to be knocked together in order to select the Olympic team....
They are private organisations that may, if they fulfil the criteria, be 'recognised' by the government: National governing bodies | Sport...
Ju jitsu was the common transliteration at the time these styles were being first globally spread, so it's not particulary surprising lots of...
Sports aren't regulated like that in Britain, recognition for the organisation opens up some government services and occasionally funding, and can...
Well, exactly, there's a spectrum of good practice which this kind of thing falls well outside. We can agree that martial arts probably doesn't...
Do you seriously believe that some people are becoming "real beasts" doing line drills and non-contact sparring?
No problem with any of that if they were honest about what they were offering, like health tai chi or cardio kickboxing. If some substantial...
The difference is that the local swim instructor actually will help you not to sink, and you'll test this by getting in the pool in every class....
Couple of nice examples of hand traps, from Dutch Kickboxing and Muay Thai respectively: [ATTACH] [IMG]
Plenty of MMA guys don't really wrap their hands or wrap them very lightly to maintain grappling sensitivity. You obviously can't hit as hard, but...
The techniques that Helio happened to favour are not the fundamentals of BJJ; base, posture and distance control are. The best way to expand your...
You don't have to personally fight MMA to know that you can fight. However, if no one you train with is capable of holding their own at like, the...
EDIT: No idea how I posted that twice.
Standing joint locks, or standing subs in general, are like jabs as far as I'm concerned. I use them all the time to threaten, set up other moves...
I think the "seven figure contract" is probably based on points of an extremely optimistic PPV buy estimate. For context, KSI vs. Logan Paul made...
I'd be quite surprised if that worked out, because they'll both look awful and they haven't arranged them any squash matches or fixes for them to...
I'm sure he recovers very well from the events he specialises in, but no one Hall's size can possibly be in shape for a fight. I guess it's...
This is not the correct way to matchmake for a freakshow fight. If only PRIDE was still here to bring them along properly: Ancient pro wrestler...
P.S. On variety of submissions, IMHO the chokes from the back (RNC and whichever collar one you favour) are the only things that are semi...
Unless we're talking top level competitors there mostly isn't one, IMO. After a few years at purple most people have peaked in terms of actual...
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