Heavyweight Grappling Collision Confirmed for NEXTREME Contender Series 2 in Purmerend
NEXTREME is tightening the screws on its December schedule, rolling out a card built for pressure and decisive outcomes. On…
Champions made at Australian Shaolin Kempo tournament
Australia. November 29, 2025 Over 35 martial artists competed at the Shaolin Kempo QLD tournament in Brisbane, Australia over the…
Historical comparison of knife and razor crime schools
When you look at different knife schools (Italian, Spanish, Canarian, Latin American, Russian), it seems as if they are isolated…
“WORLD RYUKYU KOBUDO CHAMPIONSHIP 2026” Okinawa A place where tradition ceases to be history – and becomes power.
OKINAWA, JAPAN – 2026. In the world of martial arts, there are events that set trends. There are those that…
“Nordic Taekwondo Championships 2026” The North prepares for the big fight
On January 24, 2026, one of the key events of the winter season for Northern European taekwondo will take place…
“European IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2026” kicks off in Portugal: thousands of athletes head to Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal. One of the world’s largest Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournaments, the European IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2026, will officially open on…
Death at three o’clock in the afternoon. The physics of Navaja
A feint is not just an optical illusion. It is a blow to the cause-and-effect relationship. Kozyrev argued that cause and effect are connected not only by a straight line in the past and future, but also through a “timeless state.” When a master makes a feint, he creates a false cause. He throws a phantom event into space-time. The opponent’s brain, accustomed to the linear logic of “I see movement – I expect a strike,” catches this false cause and begins to construct a consequence for it — it begins to block a non-existent attack.
Sergej Engelmann is free: a year of imprisonment in the Dr. Maltsev case ends in victory for the defense
On October 21, 2025, the Odessa Court of Appeals decided to release German journalist and editor of World of Martial Arts after a full year in custody in a pretrial detention center. The decision became possible thanks to the persistent work of the defense, which exposed numerous procedural violations and the absence of any real grounds for the charges.
German Embassy Sends Note of Protest to Ukrainian Foreign Ministry — Reason: Prosecutor Ruslan Voitov’s Violations in the Sergej Engelmann Case
The situation surrounding the criminal prosecution of Sergej Engelmann, editor-in-chief of World of Martial Arts Magazine and a German journalist,…
Our editor’s lawyer Alexandr Babikov: “The most puzzling thing was the accusation… which did not specify at all what exactly he had done wrong.”
In our world, courage is usually measured by how one performs in the ring, in the dojo, or on the…
Official Statement: Detention of Our Editor Sergej Engelmann
On October 14, 2024, our editor, Sergej Engelmann, was detained at the Ukrainian border while en route to visit his…
Who Ordered the Smear Campaign Against Oleg Maltsev?
It all started when I found an article in the Jewish Review titled “The Maltsev Case: Arrest and Harassment of…