Kill or Get Killed! (NLP? Zen? Blood and Snot?)

Psychology of Tenacious Resolvetenacious (t-nshs)adj 1: stubbornly unyielding “dogged persistence” “dour determination” “the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics” “a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it”-T.S.Eliot “men tenacious of opinion”[syn: bulldog, dogged, unyielding] 2: (of memory) having greater than average rangeFrom Latin tenx, tenc-, holding fast, from tenre, [...]


No Rules, No Holds Barred, Reality Based – No Way

This article educates readers on the dangers of most self defense programs on the market today. The topic of how effective traditional martial arts in today’s world as a way of protecting oneself is still a very sensitive issue to a lot of martial artists. What is even more sensitive is the issue of how [...]


Losers Limb

This article is about the pre excuses a fighter gives himself to lose before even stepping into the ring. The losers limb is the pre excuse you give yourself on why you are going to fail before you even begin. Unsuccessful people love having alibis and using the saying “if only”, so they have an [...]


The Kenshiro Abbe 50th Celebrations

A tribute to the legendary Budo master Kenshiro Abbe Sensei 1915 – 1985. 14th May 2005 Crystal Palace Sports Centre London. UKHenry Ellis, a direct student of the legendary Budo master Kenshiro Abbe Sense, from 1957 describes the great event at the Crystal Palace Sports Centre, London, to celebrate this great teacher and his arrival [...]


Karate and Learning Diabilites

In the 80’s I was a short, skinny eight-year old. You know the type. Always picked on but never picked for the team. When I started high school, things didn’t get much better. We had just moved to central New Jersey and I was the new kid on the block with no friends. My grades [...]


How You Train Is How You React

This article educates readers of the importance of making self defense training as real as possible so you are ready for the real situation. How you train is how you will respond and react in the real deal. Self-defense is about survival and nothing else. It is not about fighting fair, clean or being honorable. [...]