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Secret of Hitting REALLY Hard!

Newsletter 822 What is Behind a True Punch! The first time I ever actually hit someone I was shocked. I had trained for 20 years, and I actually had no idea what it was like to hit somebody for real. … Continue reading

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The Difference Between Bruce Lee and You

Finding the Truth of Bruce Lee…and Yourself Posted at AlCase.wordpress.com. Sign up for newsletter there. Okay, so what is the difference between Bruce Lee and yourself? Let me list some things, and we will see how you fare. Remember, however, … Continue reading

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Ed Parker Admits Too Many Kenpo Techniques

Does Kenpo Have Too Many Techniques? This was forwarded to me  by the erudite Tom Jackson. It backs up matrixing, and really says the truth about Parker and the many techniques of Kenpo, and in PArker’s own quote! You’ll have … Continue reading

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How Protective Gear Ruined the Martial Arts

Protective Gear Makes You hit Harder Speaking of martial arts protective gear, I was there when it was first introduced. This was about 1968, I was an instructor at a Chinese Kenpo school, and the school owner came out and … Continue reading

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Should You Take a Gun to a Martial Arts Fight?

Gunfighters Take Second Place to Martial Arts Fighter! I get all sorts of emags, having to do with martial arts, of course, and prepping, and that includes a lot of knife and gun mags. Hey, guns ARE (regardless of what … Continue reading

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Advice to Martial Artists from a Mugger

Advice from a Mugger! Okay. I’m a mugger! Got to earn a living, and I usually earn it on shmucks like you. I simply come up behind you and conk you with a baseball bat and take all your money … Continue reading

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Is it Possible to have Perfect Martial Arts?

Chess and the First Move in the Martial Arts I recently wrote on article on ‘Beyond Western Muscles and the Martial Arts,’ and in that article I mentioned an idea I had come across many years ago: that in a … Continue reading

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The One Thing That Makes Me Mad About Martial Artists

‘Just one thing makes you mad about Martial Artists, Al?’ you ask. Yeah, really, just one thing. Do you remember back when you were first starting, and you would encounter the attitude that ‘my school is best/my art is best.’ … Continue reading

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Spirit Shouting as a Martial Arts Weapon

The Secret of the Kiai (Spirit Shout) A work out at sunrise! What a way to go, eh? Perfect weather, perfect environment… perfect work out. Really charges me up. And I trust you had one, too? And, if you didn’t, … Continue reading

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The Difference Between a Martial Artist

Defining the Difference between low level and high level Martial Artists Speaking of Martial Arts, my brother had possibly the lamest joke of all time. He would ask, ‘What’s the difference between a duck?’ And, the answer: ‘One leg is … Continue reading

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