Keeping it real with Ben Mängels
Captain Ben Mängels is the founder (Soke) of the South African Institute of Unarmed Combat. He started his career in 1954 as a young police officer in Durban, South Africa. He soon learned that the rough and tough sailors were a force to be reckoned with, so began his training in Kodokwan Jujitsu.
My teacher, Shihan Thaya Moodaley
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…
The Road Less Travelled
I remember my first martial arts lesson as though it happened yesterday. I was about 10 years old and my dad took me to meet his photographer friend who taught self defence. My dad’s friend turned out to be non other than Soke Ben Mängels, founder of the South African Institute of Unarmed Combat (SAIUC), [...]
