Martial arts

The San Jose Wing Chun 40th Anniversary was a blast. Ten of us made the trip up from Orange County to San Jose to celebrate this amazing milestone of our Wing Chun family. Here are pictures from the banquet. San Jose Wing Chun 40th Anniversary Cake © The Dragon Institute | Orange County | Wing Chun Kung Fu | 34241 Pacific Coast Highway | Dana Point, CA 92673 | ocwingchun.comRead Full Story

Martial Arts in Surrey Shiro Tora Budo Kai White Tiger Martial Arts Academy Karate - Kempo - Self Defence I come to you with only Karate, My empty hands, I have no weapons. But should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honour, should it be a matter of life or death, right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my empty hands. AFA stands for Applied Fighting Arts . It is the precursor to what is now STMA - the Shiro Tora Martial Arts , the Applied Fighting Arts of Karate...Read Full Story

Martial Arts in Surrey Shiro Tora Budo Kai White Tiger Martial Arts Academy Pure Scientific Street Fighting Kempo Karate Kempo Jujutsu Filipino Martial Arts Thai Martial Arts Jun Fan Martial Arts Integrated Grappling Arts Our curriculum includes training methods from the following Fighting Systems: Street Fighting . Self Defence. Urban Combat . Threat Response Kali . Eskrima . Arnis . Stick. Knife . Empty hand Krai Krabong. Muay Thai boxing Kempo Karate . Kempo Jujutsu Jun Fan . Wing Chun...Read Full Story

Vale Tudo literally means "anything goes". It is where Martial Artists meet to try all out fighting. It is very different from the watered down safety ruled MMA of today. See original UFCs 1 to 5 for details. Vale Tudo is to MMA what bare knuckle boxing is to boxing or original Muay Thai, with rope bound hands and full contact elbows is to modern Europen Thai Boxing. MMA sparring is a safe way to combine kb and grappling. MMA, in it's basic form it is a combination of kb and rolling. OK, we...Read Full Story

The Three Levels of Threat At STMA we deal with Threat Response. We find this a more positive term than "Self Defence". When an enemy attacks you and you DEFEND yourself you REACT to his attack. With our method you RESPOND to his THREAT. You are choosing the appropriate method of Response. You are acting not reacting. Action always beats reaction. With this in mind we need to decide the level of threat before choosing our response. There are three levels of threat: SIMPLE SERIOUS LIFE...Read Full Story