How Much of an Advantage Does a Bodybuilder Martial Artist Have Over Someone without Big Muscles? by Keith Pascal Would you believe me, if I told you that overall, in high-level martial arts, a musclebound practitioner is actually at a disadvantage in a fight? Yes, I’m being serious. Now, don’t get me wrong; muscle tone […]…
You learn more than self-defense with martial arts Warning: This is a longer-than-normal article What Did Martial Arts Give You? by Keith Pascal Stick with the preamble … we’ll get to martial arts soon enough. I promise. Online, I have read a few posts about people who think going to college is useless. They feel that it doesn’t […]…
If You Consider Fighting Fair, Then You Probably Shouldn’t Fight by Keith Pascal Bruce Lee spread the idea about there being “no such thing as a fair fight.” The definition of that phrase has come to mean that if you really and truly have to defend yourself, then all rules get thrown out the door. It’s a question of survival, and you do […]…
With all the recent violence, I just had to publish this article…. Be Better Than Impulse Gun Buyers — No Guns In Our Family by Keith Pascal Face it, not all of the inhabitants of The United States show common sense. The correlation between violent acts and gun purchases supports the above claim. At first, it seems to make […]…
Two Scenarios at the Warehouse Store by Mak Actually, the subscriber would prefer to remain anonymous. I have given him the code name “Mak,” so I could file this quick article somewhere. In Issue #878, I referred to two occurrences that recently happened to me in our local Costco store. In the first case, several […]…
Wow! I can’t believe it has been this long. Toward the beginning of the year, this site was hacked. I had no idea that the webmaster simply scratched the site and put a WordPress placeholder on a single page. Ugh. (All those visitors lost.) Well, I’m back (Keith Pascal, martial arts writer). And I thought […]…