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  • Bruce Lee Fighting Style

    Bruce Lee took the concepts of different fighting styles including Wing Chun Kung Fu and fencing and modified them to suit his particular preferences and skills. He created the concept of JKD – arguably the best style of fighting for self-defence (other contenders include MMA & Krav Maga). JKD was effectively a philosophy regarding the…

  • Why Every MMA Fighter Should Learn to Fight Southpaw

    I remember one of the first times that I attended a boxing class – the first thing I was asked was “what ‘handed’ are you?”, to which I replied – right handed – “orthodox stance then” was the reply. I’m not complaining, this is pretty standard stuff in boxing – left handers fight southpaw, right…

  • Infographic: A Beginner’s Guide to UFC

    It’s only in the last decade or so that UFC has broken into the mainstream consciousness, but the organization is 25 years old in 2018. That’s right, it was established as far back as 1993 and existed on a small scale for several years before the pivotal 2001 takeover by Dana White and the Fertitta…

  • Michael Bisping’s Career – The Toughest Middleweight of All Time

    Michael Bisping’s Career – The Toughest Middleweight of All Time

    Say what you like about Michael Bisping, but he has heart, bravery and fitness like nobody else the middleweight division has seen.     He’s been a top 5 middleweight for years and has fought in the UFC for over a decade. He’s consistently been edged out in number 1 contender elimination fights, usually to…

  • Conor McGregor Infographic

    Not my best infographic ever! Well, actually, it has Conor McGregor all over it, so it probably is!  

  • The Amazing Parallels between Religion & Martial Arts

    The Amazing Parallels between Religion & Martial Arts

    You can’t tell, but I started martial arts training, on a regular basis at least when I was 16. I started on Monday nights training a bit of JKD; or Jeet Kune Do to give it its full title. As this was my first martial art, I had little to compare it to. But still in…