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MMA Champions Near You

As a lot of you know, the lady on the left is a  one-time “Face of Women’s MMA” Gina Carano, who was happily playing basketball until dragged to a Muay Thai class by her boyfriend....

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Critical Thinking and the Martial Artist

If someone tells you that martial arts training is about Truth, transcending or destroying one’s Ego, and perceiving Ultimate Reality, you should at first be a little suspicious. Not because those words can’t be...

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Cheap Umbrella for Self Defence

I bought my first umbrella today. I finally need one in Montreal, where the rain consists of water coming down and not of a whimpy Okanagan drizzle or Vancouver soggy “not sure what”. It...

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Knowing Your Opponent’s Mind

(Disclaimer: Don’t try this at home!) “Soft skills” are a part of real Martial Arts too. You mean it’s not all about punchin-n-kickin, throwin-n-chokin, cuts-n-strikes? “Soft skills” don’t really apply to competition fighting (see...

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Hip Show: MMA+Parkour+Gladiators

It’s all good and fun until someone breaks their neck falling off of one of those platforms. Not like regular MMA fighting, not like a free-for-all ghetto fight, and not like battlefield combat. So...