Elizabeth Lindsay credits her Tang Soo Do training, medical care and faith for her survival after an SUV collided with her motorcycle on Route 30 in North Versailles.

I'm fascinated by a YouTube channel that occasionally shows montage videos of everyday folks of all ages training in the martial arts parks of Beijing. I'm drawn to it because of the simple, matter-of ...

Scott Lechki long ago gave up on the idea of being recognized, despite a history of being a prize-winning martial arts competitor. Now, with fifty years experience, a ninth-degree black belt and being ...

When Montez Dennis and Rudolph Barfield tested for the “eighth dan” level of mastery in the Tadashi Yamashita International Association, the martial artists weren’t trying to be pioneers or make ...

Since the karate craze of the 1970s, countless armies of kids have punched, kicked, and yelled “hi YAH!” at strip mall dojos and community center martial arts classes across America. Martial arts ...

Tetsuhiro Hokama, known to his students as “Hokama Sensei,” using the Japanese honorific for “teacher,” has taught old-style Okinawan karate in his home country of Japan as well as Europe, Africa and ...

Corrections and Clarifications: Although we quoted Matthew Warner accurately in this story, he now says he misspoke during the interview. He says he was never suspended from school. In the parking lot ...

With more than 30 years of fighting and training under his belt, Abdul-Qadir understands the transition from karate to kickboxing. “It is a difficult endeavor, but I want to say that the hardwork and ...

Yesterday we briefly examined the strange history of contemporary bear wrestling. But in the 1950s, Kyokushinkai Karate pioneer — and trainer of such luminaries as actor Sonny Chiba — Masutatsu Oyama ...