Action Karate Arts
Blog URL http://actionkaratearts.com/
Located Glen St Mary, Florida USA
Tags karate, martial arts, self-defense, kobudo, fighting, martial philosophy
Traditional Karate Training Resource. Read, Comment and Learn about all forms of Karate Training and Apply them to the Modern World . Check out Videos and Images of Techniques and Tutorials.
Latest Blog Posts
- The True Kata Applications…Part 3 on Oct 19, 2009 in Karate Kata Training Self-Defense Karate Traditional Karate fighting karate kata karate training MMA self-defense
It’s interesting how extreme some people can get when talking about an abstract concept…trying so passionately to debunk what they see as other peoples “misguided” ideas. This applies to anything: politics, religion and…ye...
- The True Kata Applications…Part 2 on Sep 26, 2009 in Karate History Karate Kata Training Traditional Karate karate karate kata karate training kata kata training martial arts shoto-kan traditional karate techniques
Is the practice of kata, or more specifically its fighting applications, an out-dated relic of a training method that can be replaced with a philosophy of “more sweat, less thought” or even discarded altogether? Or, is it possible that in many...
- The True Kata Applications…Part 1 on Sep 19, 2009 in Karate History Karate Kata Training Traditional Karate Uncategorized karate karate kata karate training kata kata training Kobudo martial arts okinawa history okinawan karate
From conspiracy theorists to profiteers to well intentioned, committed students, all karate-ka (it seems) have a take on the mystery of kata application and relevance. Ideas like: “Only a few select people are still alive who know the REAL bunkai f...
- The True Kata Applications…Part 1 on Sep 19, 2009 in Karate History Karate Kata Training Traditional Karate karate karate kata karate training kata kata training Kobudo martial arts okinawa history okinawan karate
From conspiracy theorists to profiteers to well intentioned, committed students, all karate-ka (it seems) have a take on the mystery of kata application and relevance. Ideas like: “Only a few select people are still alive who know the REAL bunkai f...
- Machineguns and the Martial Arts on Aug 29, 2009 in Martial Philosophy Traditional Karate Why We Train fighting karate karate competition martial arts MMA UFC
The steep climb in popularity of the UFC (and by extension MMA training) has given rise to a lot of arguments over what is “the best/most effective/most realest” martial art. I am not about to get into the “my-style vs. your-style” argumen...
- Karate Is Like Fishing…Or Not on Aug 27, 2009 in Karate and Morality Martial Philosophy Self-Defense Karate deadly force fighting karate karate training martial philosohpy self-defense
There is an old saying: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” There is a lot of truth there. But, in some instances, there is another dimension to that ideal. While there is...
- The KARATE Ground and Pound! on Aug 26, 2009 in Traditional Karate karate karate training martial philosohpy shoto-kan traditional karate techniques
I put together this bunch of clips so I could get a look at how different forms of karate executed a basic take-down (nage- waza in Jananese). When I started training (many, many moons ago), it was in Shotokan Karate. And, being a very hard Japa...
