Another reason I believe Noah Legel has become (and will continue to be) an important voice in the Ryukyu Martial Arts community for many...

Here are three very simple and very basic exercises using a makiwara to build short-power. Even though these are very basic exercises, thi...

Something which isn't explicitly mentioned in the video is that the elbow-strike covers the right side of the head (which is importa...

Several years ago I created a number of Facebook groups which were intended for practitioners of Okinawan Martial Arts ("Naihanchi no K...

Here are videos of three Bojutsu systems for you to & compare and contrast. These clips are "fair-use" and are included here f...

Continuous motion drills" (drills which are repeated indefinitely in a repeating cycle) and more especially "reciprocal continuous...

This is truly a rare treat. Although I was given access to this video a couple of years ago, it has only very recently been shared publicly....

Over the last few years I have tried to become more active in attracting interest into good quality martial arts from the Ryukyu archipela...

In Chinese martial arts there are a plethora of drills, sparring methods, and forms of sticky-hands practice that are performed from a cross...

Kuden are "oral transmissions" or "oral teachings" and are very common in martial arts. Of course most teaching is don...

I am happy to present an article by Noah Legel as the Ryukyu Martial Arts Blog's second guest-post. Noah Legel a serious practitioner ...