Martial Arts News, Fighters & Training from Across New Zealand

Every so often someone tells me they’d love to try martial arts but reckon they’ve left it too late. They haven’t. Plenty of people start […]

Every culture has its fighters. Long before the printing press or the cinema, people told stories about warriors who could level mountains, outwit gods and […]

Ask most people overseas what sport Kiwis obsess over and you’ll get one answer. Fair enough too, rugby has been the default here for generations. […]

A mate of mine finally talked herself into trying a women’s self-defence class last year after putting it off for ages, mostly because she had […]

I’ve spent a fair few years on mats and in boxing gyms, and somewhere along the way I started noticing how often combat sports show […]

Krav maga gets asked about more than almost any other system when people are choosing a self-defence class, usually because of its reputation as the […]

Signing a kid up for martial arts is one of those decisions that feels bigger than it is until you actually walk into a few […]

People ask me this one a lot, usually after they’ve already decided they want to do some kind of striking and just can’t figure out […]

A question that comes up a lot around the gym, usually after someone’s watched a scary video online, is “am I actually allowed to defend […]

Every few months someone asks me what martial art they should learn to protect themselves, and I still don’t have a one-word answer for them. […]