Even with all of the McDonalds martial arts available out there (that are to martial arts what McDonalds is to real food) eliminated from the mix, there is still quality kung-fu, jiu-jitsu, aikido, and taekwondo (although so many halls exist in this art that finding a good one is like finding a particular needle in a haystack-sized stack of needles), not to mention arts from South Asia, or even, once in a while, western arts like wrestling, fencing, or boxing (these are usual

I know an excellent karate instructor who has developed a theory about the relation of money to karate. He has determined that he will never give any of what he knows for free, because the knowledge is a precious commodity for which he paid and trained over many years. He asserts that if someone else is unwilling to contribute money to learn it, they are saying that they do not value it properly, for money is so unequivocally the representation of value in our society. In

For fifteen years of training and practice I have felt little beyond mechanical improvement, and given constant reminders to myself:...

There are, in our country, martial arts from just about every place in the world, taught in a bewildering variety of ways. They include...