Karate By Jesse Website

In our ongoing effort to provide our readers with the best karate resources we can find on the web, I am happy to present you with a website I stumbled upon called KaratebyJesse.  This site is full of excellent articles, opinions and information for all karateka.  The layout of the site is very user friendly and incorporates social media aspects well.  Content is updated regularly with anything from fun articles like top 10 lists to more in-depth opinion articles like the the meaning of Zanshin.  

Jesse has also started another website called Karate Lovers.   This is the first social forum I have come across designed specifically for karateka and is pioneering in its concept.  I hope in time this becomes a destination site for serious discussion and "karate nerds" as Jesse puts it.

We live in a much different technological world than when I started training in 1986.  Back then I would travel into downtown Toronto to two stores that sold expensive books that showed diagrams and/or still photos of different techniques.  Information is now at your fingertips for free.  YouTube and other sites provide you with real-time access to information and people from around the globe on almost anything you want to know about the martial arts.  Sadly not all this content is a good thing and that is why we will continue to sort through it and provide you with the best resources we have discovered.

Be sure to check out and bookmark these sites to exercise your mind.

No Excuses- No Limits

First of all a happy Independence Day to all our readers in the U.S. and a happy Canada Day this past week for our readers in Canada.

Speaking of Canada, I would like to take an opportunity to introduce you to another fellow Canadian- Baxter Humby.  Given my busy schedule I do not always have time to physically train at the dojo so I try to supplement my training with books articles, programs and other martial arts information where I can.  Lately I have been watching World Championship Kickboxing (WCK) on satellite when the family is asleep.  I'll watch MMA as well, but enjoy watching WCK as the fighting style more closely resembles what I am used to when I train.  WCK is really Muay-Thai rules and most fighters come from this background.  I digress.

So there I am on my couch watching a late night WCK program when I see a one-armed fighter come on TV.  This of course intrigued me not only to watch him fight, but to also find out a little more about who he was.