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MarksTraining
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Fighting and training methods for unarmed martial artists, including techniques for any level of ability, home workouts, exercises to develop specific attributes plus much much more. Also includes reviews on books dedicated to martial arts, improving health and fitness and biography's.
Recent Posts
REPOST: Raw Strength (Squats on One Leg)
The following is a repost, back from October 2007 when MarksTraining.com was just starting out. Hope you enjoy it if you have never seen it before. To be able to generate a hard shocking roundhouse or side kick requires strength in the legs. Traini...
Anton Geesink\'s Judo
Todays video post is dedicated to one of Judo’s greatest competition fighters of all time, Anton Geesink and his use of off balancing and sweeps. Geesink is a 10th Dan Judoka (recognized only under IJF and not Kodokan) from the Netherlands who won...
Bad Habits in the Martial Arts
At some stage during ones training they shall come across bad habits. The kicker about bad habits is that it is rare that one will see these bad habits themselves. They can creep up on a martial artist at anytime and to some can take years to break, ...
Sparring, Hard and Soft
When it comes to sparring, there are two ways in which it can be carried out, which are hard or soft. Weather it is striking, throws and takedowns, ground grappling or a mixture of all, sparring can be done in a hard fashion or a soft fashion. Hard...
Muay Thai - Knee Strike
Lasts weeks video was all about the elbow strike, demonstrated in pure Muay Thai fashion! Today’s video is again demonstrated in Thai fashion but is dedicated to the knee strike. Just like the elbow strike, when close in and especially from the cl...
Psy-ki-do - Psychic Blood and Gore!
Pat Parker here from Mokuren Dojo. Today Marks has graciously allowed me to post an interesting little piece of pseudoscience here on his otherwise most excellent blog. This is the latest in my series of blog posts inspired by the movie, The Men wh...

