Practical Application of Chinese Martial Arts with Tim Cartmell

When I started my at times rocky martial arts journey thirty three years ago, Chinese martial arts (CMA) was (at least for me) something unattainable. The only arts at hand in my city were Japanese and Korean ones, which I trained for almost a decade. However, I always felt something was missing, in the early […]

The Martial Arts of the People’s Liberation Army

In previous posts we have given a quick introduction to the practice of Chinese martial arts in the military during the republican period and the Sino Japanese War. English literature dealing with martial arts practice in the PLA in recent years is at best scarce. The first articles and books that covered this subject were […]