Stick Grappling Tips: Protect Your Grip Effectively

The video is for illustrative purposes only. Please seek professional instruction and train safely. If you are not very careful, you may risk injuring your thumb. Many practitioners use the thumbs-up grip for their stick techniques. This grip is common in certain Filipino Martial Arts (FMA). It is also used in Irish stick styles. IfContinue reading “Stick Grappling Tips: Protect Your Grip Effectively”

Effective Grip Training Methods for Martial Artists

Fangs for the memory… Most of history’s warriors accepted that you needed skills in stand up, clinch and ground to be successful. It’s been a core concept in my KORA curriculum since it was a mixture of Combatives, Muay Thai and Judo over thirty-five years ago. Whether we seek it or not grappling happens, andContinue reading “Effective Grip Training Methods for Martial Artists”