It was the summer of 2008 when I was casually reading through my emails that I found a nice message from Brian who at the time I did not know. After a short introduction Brian was very kind to compliment us on an article we wrote back then when were really starting to scratch the […]
On October 2018 at UFC 229 Dagestani MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov successfully defended his Lightweight title against the always colorful Conor McGregor putting Khabib and his native Dagestan in the spot light. Khabib’s victory is however, not the only one for fighters from the republic, in fact Dagestan has been a Mecca for combat sports […]
An interesting perspective from one of the son’s of the original Ma family siblings. Ma Yue son of the late Ma Xianda (1932 – 2013) a respected and influential martial arts teacher. Ma Xianda was interviewed by the Kung Fu Taichi Magazine in 2002 where he discussed about his life and the state of Chinese martial arts […]
General Qi Jiguang (1528 – 1588) was born in a hereditary military family in 1528 at Dengzhou, Shandong province. Qi received education in both the Classics and military skills from a tender age and assumed his father’s rank in 1544. He took the military examinations receiving the Juren degree in 1549, but was unsuccessful in […]
The China of the early XXth century experienced major political and social changes thanks to a combination of local and foreign forces creating the right environment from which many reformers arose. In the realm of Chinese martial arts, Ma Liang (馬良) also know as Ma Zizhen (馬子真, 1875-1947) would give a start to the modernization […]
One of the topics I find fascinating is the practice of Chinese martial arts in the early XX Century. Specifically the Big Knife Units for which we are in the process of preparing a paper to be released in the near future. The main sponsor of such fighting units was Feng Yuxiang nicknamed the Christian […]
Zhongguo Wu Xue 