Despite the multitude of different martial arts and infinite variations on training methods there is one common component that links all systems and styles – the human body.  Regardless of culture and ideology, size or shape, armed or unarmed, modern or traditional or any of the other divisions that have…

The human body is the most advanced machine ever created and housed inside it is the most powerful supercomputer in existence - the human brain.   This super computer is capable of sending and receiving messages to and from the farthest corners of the body at speeds in excess of 180mph…

There is an inherent beauty that can be seen within all things in the universe. The trouble I have is that I seem to have missed my allotted dose of ‘beauty’ being blessed instead with a busted nose, generously proportioned ears and natural gift for ‘gangliness’, “You look like a…

You could tell it was grading day… The toilets stank, the toilet paper had run out within the first 30 minutes of the leisure centre…

There really is a lot of seemingly nonsensical sayings in taiji that sifu’s seem to delight in repeating over, and over, and over.... “The head…

In the first part of this series we explored the phenomenon of ‘pain’ - discussing how it is the medium through which our body communicates…