Seeing Neil 'Goliath' Grove defend his World heavyweight title at Ultimate Challenge made me very proud recently. Neil got his black belt at our club before ever training in other gyms and still wears the DKK gi and belt on his way down to the cage. He is a true martial artist, a fearsome fighter and a very decent guy. His performance was almost perfect: his opponent overextended on a big punch and Neil punished it with a sweeping strike righton the button, at just 53 seconds into the fight. Awesome.
 


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    Ai to Zen

    Over the years I’ve found many of the Chinese and Japanese terms used in the martial arts are loaded with useful ideas and symbolism. Concepts such as Tao, Yin, Yang, Do, Chi, Go and Ju (and many others) have all helped both in my personal training and in teaching. Here are some musings on the subjects along with other concepts and ideas that appear in martial training.

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