What Fisticuffs Really Means: A Look at Fashion’s Impact on Historical Combat
Fisticuffs — now there’s a word we’ve all heard. It conjures up visions of old-timey bare-knucklers going at it from upright long-guard...
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Hayward Nishioka
Oct 28
How a Small-Statured Scholar Saved Japan’s Martial Arts Legacy!
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo harbor (now Tokyo) with four steam-powered warships. The United States was on a mission...
Hayward Nishioka
Oct 22
Rethinking Rank: What Does It Really Mean to Be a Black Belt?
Before Jigoro Kano and the Meiji Restoration, there was jujitsu. Back then, a person practiced in an ordinary kimono, usually a hakama and..
Justin Lee Ford
Oct 11
The Legacy and Impact of the TV Series Kung Fu: How One Show Changed Everything
Get ready, grasshopper… we’re rewinding to the '70s and stepping into the world of the TV Series Kung Fu!
Jerry Beasley
Oct 10
Dollars in the Dojo: A Short History of Martial Arts as a Business
The practice of martial arts in the United States started small and was mostly limited to World War II veterans
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