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Open All-Ukrainian Festival of Martial Arts «Best of the Best»

Open All-Ukrainian Festival of Martial Arts «Best of the best» The event will be held with the aim of popularizing martial arts in Ukraine, enhancing sports skills of athletes, as well as promoting healthy lifestyles….

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Canary Toledo. Free lesson with Maestro Palmero Ramos

Maestro Palmero Ramos is the director of the Spanish school Achinech located in the Canary Islands.  

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Rick McGee on Stress Management

Rick McGee is the founder and head instructor at Ares self-defense. Student comes to gym to teach oneself physical self defence. But what he really is looking for is  psychological self defence. I think it…

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Sipalki do Argentina. Gustavo Barrientos

The history of the origin of Sipalki do martial art. Basic principles, levels, system of certification, types of weapons along with the basic technical elements of attack and defense.

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Hank Hayes about his teacher Sensei John Salvaggio

Hank Hayes is the founder and owner of NLB Tactikal, military and law enforcement tactical training company.

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Public Failure. Blade weapon traditions of Sicily

For some Sicily is a dream, for some a mystery, for others a way of life. Millions of tourists come here every year to get acquainted with the history, culture and traditions. Only that traditions…

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“I’m a brainy. I speculate in the field of martial arts” rubric with Borislav Krustev

In today’s world there is a huge number of different schools, systems and masters in martial arts, correspondingly there is a dispute over these questions: “Who is right, who is to blame? Who is better,…

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What is “HEMA”? Unfair competition and methods of religious extremism

“HEMA is fairly a small group which employs methods of religious extremism in fighting its competitors. It seems that they do not understand what consequences they may face in case they continue on using similar…

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Science of Victory. Peculiarities of Italian Fencing

What is Fencing for majority of people in today’s world? In past fencing corresponded to “live longer”. Obviously, there were and are certain technical elements which should help to achieve a victory in battle. However,…

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The origins of Filipino martial arts and European knights

It is an all known fact that modern Filipino Martial Arts are considered to be unique. This martial art, no doubt, differs from other ones as it is based on mixture of different styles, even…

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Maestro Jorge Emilio Prina speaks about weapons in Creole fencing (Esgrima Criolla)

This article is based on interview with Maestro of Creole fencing Jorge Emilio Prina. In conversation with Grand Maestro Oleg Maltsev he has told about weapons used in Creole fencing and also about weapons that…

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Italian fencing and the 19th century Fencing Manual

“Schools and masters of Fence: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century” Egerton Castle This article depicts some high points of Grand Maestro Oleg Maltsev’s lecture on one of the world fencing schools, particularly…