So we survived. Remember the end of 2020? When we collectively said good bye to year full of challenges and hoped for a better start in 2021? Things are never quite that easy, it seems. Whatever your opinion about the years of the pandemic or the way it has been managed, we now think about […]
The GLIMPSE series of martial arts knowledge grows. Here, Gary Bohm and Heero Miketta dive in the issue of fear and fear management from a martial arts perspective, but touching topics like conflicts, stress and anxiety as well.
Curiosity and innovation: The Martial Arts community is full of both. To nurture this search for knowledge and skills is our most important goal in Missing Link. We are an international community of curious, open minded Karateka. We do not waste much time on politics, but focus on learning and teaching instead. And we are […]
Learning martial arts online – is that even possible? The short answer is: No. Martial arts needs the whole person, connects body and mind. Learning it is based on experience in the dojo, with and without partner, with a good teacher who literally stays in touch with their students. It takes time, patience and endurance […]
Like with most things that you invest time to learn, you will fantasies/day dream of how good it will be when you reach your goal. This could be learning guitar or learning another language, and the fantasy of that could be playing with Eric Clapton or ordering in fluent Spanish to impress a girl/boy in […]
What can you expect from a self-defence course? You'll learn to use your body - your arms, legs, head - to efficiently fight yourself out of an attack. You learn about risk assessment, typical offender and victim behaviour, you find out how your body reacts to stress and you learn how to leave any threatening […]
The Mancunian Missing Link Karate dojos currently embark on a special venture: Bringing the highly developed Women's Self Defence concept of the German police to England. This raises an important question that we encountered in Germany more than two decades ago: What should be the content of a course like this - and what should […]
A look into our Knife awareness seminars in Manchester: Why Knife AWARENESS, not DEFENSE? Because knife defense techniques are most of the time madness. A knife is a dangerous weapon, and it should not be brought to any conflict, ever. There might be examples of successful defense against a knife, but none of them does […]
I always try to push my students beyond technique. Always trying to open pathways of understanding and giving them the possibility of understanding the underlying general principles, that will crack open, not just that technique, but all of them. The other day we were training a simple drill, where one person (the defender) lies face […]
The Missing Link concept replaces the Dan grading system with an own approach to individual development, research and learning within the community. Instead of counting up the number of Dan degrees, the Okuden and Kaiden MasterLevels require the applicant to add knowledge and ideas to Missing Link Martial Arts. A full blown thesis, accompanied by […]