shuri-ryu


Making a Fist 4

A standard balled fist The balled fist is a fairly standard tool in martial arts and it is a fairly natural method for forming your hand to strike someone.  That doesn’t mean it is the only method, or even necessarily the best method.  I would like to introduce two other methods–Shuri-ken and tate-ken.  The word ken we know to be […]


Adapting Traditional Martial Arts to MMA 2

For quite some time I have been considering signing up for an amateur MMA fight in the Phoenix area–there are a couple different organizations that hold amateur MMA fights and I have had them bookmarked in my browser for over a year.  Since the only weaponless martial arts I have only ever studied have been Okinawan karate and judo I […]


Budo no Kaizen

Hello everyone, This is my second go at a martial arts blog–my first foray into blogging was while I was between karate dojo and training in judo, and I just fell out of the habit of posting.  This, I am hoping, will be more insightful and more regular now that I am back in a karate dojo. I started training […]