Welcome to the Community Blog

Since Missing Link Martial Arts was founded, it has grown in many ways. Most important: In content. The Community has attracted great Martial Artists from many different fields and started growing into new countries.

This website - and this blog - will help to connect the individuals that make the community, and help us creating new ideas in a reliable structure.

We are looking forward to connect more links, more peoples, more knowledge and more ideas.

The Founder Circle

September 2018

Recent Posts

The Allure and Trap of the “Island Talent”

Why Missing Link teachers are guides, not gatekeepers It’s a familiar figure in any dojo, in any art. The competitor who is untouchable in point-sparring but freezes when the context changes. The kata specialist whose form is a breathtaking display of athletic perfection, yet who possesses only a superficial understanding of its application. The historian […]

Practical skill beyond the tickbox

Sensei Heero Miketta about Empowering the Student… and the Teacher Traditional karate, and many well-known martial arts, are built on checklists. Kihon, Kata, Kumite: three sacred pillars, three tick-boxes. Master the external performance, copy your teacher’s version, receive your grade. But where did these boxes come from? Kihon drills and kata sequences have grown more […]