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Miyamoto Musashi Versus Cameron Quinn: A Book of Five Rings
Posted in kyokushin karate, Martial Arts, Real Men with tags A Book of Five Rings, bodhisattva, Cameron Quinn, Kyokushin karate, martial arts, Mas Oyama, Miyamoto Musashi on April 21, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle
The Greatest Kung Fu Story Never Told – Part Two
Posted in Journalism, Martial Arts, Real Men, True Crime with tags Brisbane, Casino, Chinese New Year, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Fortitude Valley, fortune teller, Gawain Sue, Ging Mo, Hong Kong, Humility, King's Park, Kung fu, Malcolm Sue, Malcolm Sue Kung Fu Academy, martial arts, Shaolin Temple, Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Tong Long, VK Commodore, Wheel of Life on January 15, 2017 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 6, Aug-Sept 2016
Preparation for the story on the Sue family made for a lot of reading. I googled old newspaper articles on the subject of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, as well as the place of the Sue family within it. Continue reading
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Torture Holiday
Posted in Journalism, Ridiculous curiosity with tags Blitz Martial Arts Magazine, car battery, drowning, duct tape, escapology, handcuffs, Israel, Jim Armstrong, Las Vegas, Lee Morrison, martial arts, Raw Combatives, rope, Santa Monica, torture, Urban Combatives, Venice Beach, water boarding, zip ties on March 17, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
One of the more remarkable out-takes from a recent interview I conducted for Blitz Martial Arts Magazine. Continue reading
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Salem Assli: Savate Master!
Posted in fighting, Kickboxing, Martial Arts, Real Men with tags Bob Alix, Boxe Francaise Savate, Boxing, Bruce Lee, chausson, duel, escrima, France, Guru Dan Inosanto, gymnastics, Inosanto International Instructors Association, Jeet Kune Do, jiu jitsu, Judo, kali, Kali-Eskrima-Silat, Kickboxing, Kung fu, la canne, Lille, Lord Mountbatten, martial arts, Master Chai Sirisute, Muay Thai, Paul Borrett, Robert Paturel, savate, soccer, street fighting, United States, Vas-t'on de tout? on May 7, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Magazine, Volume 29, No. 4, April 2015
Salem Assli is a vocational teacher of many martial arts. Ironically, he found his way to the art of his native country through an assiduous study of Jeet Kune Do, the martial art of Bruce Lee. Continue reading
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Paul Brennan: ‘Kind-Of-Extremely-Violent’
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing, Martial Arts, Real Men with tags acupuncture, Aikido, Art Gallery of New South Wales, black belt, Boxing, Brisbane, Cantonese, Chow Gar, Hakka Chinese, Hit and Fall Medicine, Hong Kong, Ip Shui, iPhone, Jeremy Small, Kowloon, Kung fu, Malcolm Sue, martial arts, medicine, Mong Kok Martial Arts Association, Mount Isa, Muay Thai, Paul Brenna, Sifu Ng Si Kay, Tae Kwon Do, Wing Chun, wrestling on February 3, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Magazine, January 2015
Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu is among the most practical, street-ready forms of kung fu available. Paul Brennan can testify to that, having learned it on the tough streets of Kowloon, Hong Kong, from one of the progenitors of the style, Ip Shui. Continue reading
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Reality-Based Self Defence: Scenario Training – 2
Posted in Journalism with tags Blitz Magazine, fear pyramid, Geoff Thompson, Jim Armstrong, Lee Morrison, martial arts, reality-based self-defence, S.P.E.A.R, scenario training, Senshido, Target Focus Training, Tim Larkin, Tony Blauer, Urban Combatives on October 5, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Magazine, September 2014 Vol. 28. No.9
“Senshido is not a style or system as such,” begins Jimmy Armstrong, the Glen Waverly-based instructor who also teaches Lee Morrison’s Urban Combatives. “It’s more a collective group of people that really want to help others and we use the vehicle of self-protection to do that. A lot of people seem to think it’s a style [or] system and all we do is shred people and do scenario training to the ‘nth’ degree, but what we do is far bigger than just those two things.” Continue reading
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Reality-Based Self Defense: Scenario Training – 1
Posted in Journalism with tags martial arts, Melissa Harries, Mindset Abilities, psychology, reality-based self-defence, self-defence, stress, stress inoculation, trauma, Victoria Police on October 5, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Magazine, September 2014 Vol. 28. No.9
Nearly all of the world’s top self-defence instructors advocate some sort of stress-inoculation training. The logic is that in order to know your technique will work under pressure, you must test yourself beforehand. That said, how does scenario training affect trainees mentally, and is it really necessary? After all, many have successfully defended themselves without having done a minute’s scenario training, and some report traumatic responses afterwards. JARROD BOYLE investigates. Continue reading
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Doomsday Preparation and Reality-Based Self-Defence
Posted in Jokes, Journalism, Real Men, Ridiculous curiosity with tags Fight! Magazine, International Kickboxer Magazine, Jarrah Loh, Liam Neeson, martial arts, reality-based self-defence, Taken film on July 15, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Jarrah Loh being throttled by Royce Gracie
“Doomsday preppers and people like that… they want someone to kidnap their kids so they can go kick some ass.”
-Jarrah Loh, editor of International Kickboxer and Fight! Magazine speaking on the subject of ‘extreme’ members of the martial arts community.
Theme Park at its Darkest 