By The Staff  |  26 June 2023 The European Budo Centre - Dojo Stara Wieś is an architectural gem nestled within the picturesque Polish landscape. This facility is designed and ...

Discover a Unique European Budo Centre – Dojo Stara Wieś

By Lewis Budden  | 19 December 2020   In the vast world of MMA, if you were to name a style that uses both a combination of strikes and kicks you ...

Savate – ‘The Unconventional Fighting Art of the French’

By Lewis Budden  |  2 October 2020   Bataireacht is an Irish martial art. It is fighting with a traditional weapon in the form of the Shillelagh, a wooden club, and ...

Bataireacht – The Lost Art of Irish Stick Fighting

By Sonia Ahmed  |  2 August 2020 Soon after its completion, the gladiatorial games started in its arena and lasted for another 100 years. The gladiators were mostly the slaves ...

Trace the Gladiatorial Legacy in the Shadow of Ancient Roman Colosseum

By Sonia Ahmed | 25 July 2020 Built in the late 15th century by Prince Ivan III (Ivan the Great), Red Square is Russia's most famous tourist attraction. It's the ...

Follow Red Square’s Cobblestone Paths to the Trails of Russian Systema

By Lewis Budden  |  16 May 2020   From schoolyard fights to the Fretless Bass, how the Wing Chun Master, Trevor Ray, uses Jazz to further his practice. The following is ...

Fine Tuning – Wing Chun Jazz Beats

By Lewis Budden  |  26 October 2019 Manchester, pioneers of the women’s right to vote, industrial pioneering and more recently, home to a new generation of MMA champions. But who ...

Train Like a Champion in Manchester

By Lewis Budden  |  26 October 2019   Manchester, the UK’s second city. Mainly known to the world for its rock bands and football teams, the city is now basking in ...

Why Manchester is the New Home of Wing Chun

By Lemar Morgan  |  29 August 2019   I've been soaking up the wonderfully rich Bulgarian culture whilst I've been living and working here for the past 8 years, and I ...

An Outside View Of Da Dao: The Bulgarian Martial Art

By Lewis Budden  |  1 August 2019   MMA in the UK has quickly blossomed into one of the most popular sports practiced. A recent UFC live event sold out London's ...

The Rise of MMA in the UK

By Lewis Budden  |  24 July 2019   The UK’s National Health Services now publicly encourages martial arts as a form of keeping fit and improving health. Unsurprising to us, as ...

NHS Endorses Martial Arts – Here’s Why

By Lemar Morgan  |  15 July 2019   Cа́мбо (Sambo) or samozashchita bez oruzhiya: self defense without weapons. The foundation of Sambo in the 1920s against the backdrop of political turmoil and ...

Sambo Triumphs Over Repression

By Lemar Morgan  |  2 July 2019   Anne-Marie was born in East Tilbury, Essex, England, to an English mother and Irish father, and although there's nothing particularly remarkable about that, ...

Anne-Marie from Shotokan Karate Champion to Pop Sensation

By Lemar Morgan  |  9 December 2018   Inspired by the Roman Empire's Gladiators and what they ate at the time, James 'Lighting' Wilks, a seasoned martial artist and former UFC ...

A Lad from Leicester Discovers Veganism is a “Game Changer”

By Lemar Morgan  |  16 November 2018   The English are known for many things but martial arts aren’t one of them. However, there is evidence to support the notion that ...

Bartitsu – The Gentlemanly Art of Self-Defence

By Theo Karasavvas  |  25 October 2018 A substantial amount of archaeological and historical evidence has shown that the ancient Greeks celebrated and practiced combat sports that were remarkably similar ...

Pammachon a Long-Forgotten Martial Art

By Ogi Dzabirski  |  29 April 2018   The culture of drinking beer is one that is very common in Europe. So it comes as no surprise that during the last ...

A Taste of Macedonian Originality