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
Combat often looks chaotic. Especially in unarmed fighting, many things happen at once: movement, striking, pressure, balance, clinch, interruption, disengagement, re-entry. Because of this density, fighting is often experienced as unpredictable. But experienced practitioners frequently notice something else. Beneath the apparent chaos, recognizable structures begin to appear. Not fixed techniques. Not scripted sequences. But recurring […]
Keep what survives contact. This article shows how constraints, cycles, and partner pressure turn values into behaviour — and training into something that lasts. Sandro Sandten teaches partner-contact–oriented Karate with a pedagogical and sustainable design focus. His work centres on training systems that remain functional under real-life variability — honest partner interaction, clear constraints, and […]