The 6th Martial Arts Studies Conference is taking place across Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 July 2020. This year’s theme is Martial Arts, Religion and Spirituality . . .
Information on a live panel discussion on the topic of ethics and morals in the martial arts, for the 6th Martial Arts Studies Conference 2020. The theme of the conference this year is Martial Arts, Religion and Spirituality. Find out more about who else is on the panel, what we’ll be covering – and how you can access this and/or any of the other eight conference panels taking place . . .
Can martial arts training open us to the insights that constitute the Buddhist path – which when realised turn the practitioner toward non-attachment, compassion, and innate kindness . . . ?
Can a Westerner ever truly understand the art in quite the same way as someone who has grown up within the Japanese culture . . . ?
Interest in the Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) is growing. And one of its big questions is whether it’s possible to rediscover a lost or disrupted art, by studying and copying the techniques depicted in the old fightbooks (training manuals) . . . ?
As a training tool, sparring has loads of physical / technical benefits.
But according to Professor Janet (Jay) O’Shea – who is both an academic and a martial arts practitioner – sparring has all kinds of sociopsychological benefits too.
Here are five key points from a lecture she gave on this last week . . .
One of my female martial arts blogger friends, Megan, has been training in Lightsaber Combat for the last few months. It looks like they have a lot of fun – but until now I didn’t really get it.
But having attended a lecture on this topic yesterday by Dr Ben Judkins (of Kung Fu Tea fame), a few things have fallen into place. Here are the key points he made, which suddenly put this seemingly bizarre art into a very interesting light . . .
“Just take my advice: if you are a respectable girl, as you say you are, don’t walk in Regent Street at night.”
Find out what happened when genteel Victorian / Edwardian ladies started to take an interest in the martial arts . . .
Evan Vlachos straddles three worlds, as a special education teacher, a researcher and a Karate practitioner (Shorin ryu Karate-do and Matayoshi Kobudo). This gives him a unique insight into how martial arts can benefit children with BESD . . .
According to Evan, here are ten of key benefits of traditional martial arts training for these children . . .
A graphic showing how masculinity is changing in the Western world . . .