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Boxing Trade
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Some of the Tools of the Boxing Trade

Teddy Atlas took Cus D’Amato’s Willie Bag invention and ran to the bank with it when he sold the idea to Everlast. Boxing is filled with tools for learning that have lasted many decades, possibly centuries. Cus developed some strange number system and made the Willie Bag to prepare Jose

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The State of the Art of Boxing
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The State of the Art of Boxing

If there were boxing Gods, all powerful judges overlooking every aspect of the art of boxing, what would They think about it?  The quality of boxing has arguably never been up to a standard worthy of Gods. Regretfully, boxing may have never been up to a standard of itself.  With

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A Skepticism On Weapons Training
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A Skepticism On Weapons Training

Coming from a background of a mixture of martial arts trumped by boxing, my skepticism on any theoretical training is stark yet open-minded. I’ve done all-out sparring with sticks and wooden knives.  I’ve been bruised and cut by sticks and slashed by fake knives, but I hardly respected any of

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Fear Training – The Essential Aspect of Training in Martial Arts

Some of these issues have been addressed in “The Problem with Bruce Lee’s JKD,” but it is discussed here in more depth as this has been an on-going discussion with several of our readers. Martial Arts schools are typically “business above all things,” so every potential martial artist/fighter must look

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Breaking Bricks and Breaking Bu!!$%it

Penn & Teller barely touched on the complexities of martial arts in their episode Martial Arts of their award-winning Showtime hit series “Bullshit,” but they did manage to point out the waste of time martial arts can be. Martial arts is more of a waste than just its self-defense sales

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