Reality Based Self Defence

The question is often asked; what martial art or fighting system is the best for self self defence? The answer is always going to be biased to some degree as we tend to practice systems which we believe in. As someone who has been trained in several martial arts and fighting systems I have come [...]

The question is often asked; what martial art or fighting system is the best for self self defence? The answer is always going to be biased to some degree as we tend to practice systems which we believe in. As someone who has been trained in several martial arts and fighting systems I have come [...]

I have been accused of being somewhat pedantic and I guess I am, and in that light I want to get things right. For instance, I want to use the most correct Romanisation of kanji characters. When it comes to deciding whether to use Jujitsu or Jujutsu in writing on the topic there is always [...]

There are many, many close quarters combat videos on the Internet and most are not worth watching. The closest I have seen to what I was taught was one documentary on the French Legion. Following that one video, the system that consistently comes closest to what we do is Krav Maga, the Israeli military hand-to-hand combat system.

Shihan Thaya falls into that category of great masters who kept under the radar prefering to focus on learning and growing and then unselfishly passing on their knowledge to their students…