The Kung Fu School

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Some 2,500 years ago there lived an Greek wrestling champion, Milo of Kroton, who wore the Olympic wreath six times, five of them consecutively between the 62nd to 66th Olympiad. Milo’s strength was legendary as his the story about how he became...

My general philosophy on teaching martial arts is that you should avoid teaching endless numbers of specific attack-defend routines. One popular approach is to teach hundreds of “scenarios” in the hope that you cover as many types of attac...