A little look back on our winter seminar with Cornelia Heinz, Jorge F. Garibaldi, Heero Miketta and Sascha Wagener in the Missing Link HQ in Dortmund. Training and sweat were part of the schedule - but the high class instructor team took the participants into deeper topics, including some theoretical aspects, the history of Karate and martial arts in general, and again and again: Fighting and bunkai.
Real-World Lessons for a Functional Karate System (Part 2) Author: Tony Bolton In Part 1, we looked at the mechanical and strategic gaps in modern training. But a fight is not just physics; it is physiology and psychology. When the conversation stops and violence begins, you are not fighting the opponent in front of you. […]
There is a curious obsession in traditional martial arts, and karate in particular, with the way you stand. Not with how you move, not with how you get somewhere, but with the precise frozen moment at the end of a technique — the stance. The angle of the foot. The bend of the knee. The […]