Black Belt Magazine

Black Belt tells you everything you need to know about every style of self-defense in the world! It offers the broadest, most informative coverage of all aspects of the traditional fighting disciplines that were developed in Asia, as well as the modern eclectic systems that were devised in the West.

LOOKING BACK FROM THE FUTURE

Black Belt Magazine • VOLUME 60, NO. 3 APRIL/MAY 2022

TIMES • BLACK BELT VENTURES INTO PODCASTING

DOJO LISTINGS

COMMUNITY

WHAT IS A KIAI? • SOME MARTIAL ARTISTS MIGHT DECIDE TO SKIP THIS KARATE WAY COLUMN BECAUSE THEY FIGURE THEY ALREADY KNOW WHAT A KIA IS. IT’S THE SHOUT YOU MAKE WHEN YOU EXECUTE A TECHNIQUE, RIGHT? YES, THAT’S TRUE. BUT IT’S A LITTLE MORE THAN THAT.

SHOU BO: A HYBRID OF SAN DA AND SHUAI CHIA • “SHOU BO IS LIKE SHUAI CHIAO, BUT YOU’RE ALLOWED TO HIT PEOPLE,” EXPLAINED DAI GUOBING, DEAN OF THE WUSHU INSTITUTE AT SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF SPORT. HE SAID A SHOU BO MASTER NAMED YUAN ZUMOU WOULD GIVE A SPECIAL SEMINAR THAT WEEKEND AND, BECAUSE I WAS A WRESTLING MAJOR, HE WANTED ME TO ATTEND.

REMEMBERING THE LADY WRESTLERS • THE PROMOTIONAL COPY FOR LADY WRESTLER: THE AMAZING UNTOLD STORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE RING TELLS US IT’S AN 82-MINUTE DOCUMENTARY THAT “CHRONICLES THE STORIES OF BABS WINGO, ETHEL JOHNSON, MARVA SCOTT, RAMONA ISBELL AND DOZENS OF OTHER AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WHO BRAVED RACISM AND SEXISM IN THE 1950S, ’60S AND ’70S.”

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? RON VAN CLIEF • OF ALL THE FIGHTERS WHO APPEARED IN THE EARLY UFC TOURNAMENTS, NONE PROVOKES A WIDER RANGE OF EMOTIONS THAN RON “THE BLACK DRAGON” VAN CLIEF.

THE HAZARDS OF FLOW DRILLS • LET’S BEGIN WITH A BIT OF WISDOM THAT SIR BASIL LIDDELL HART ESPOUSED IN 1934: “AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MILITARY OPERATION AND A SURGICAL OPERATION IS THAT THE PATIENT IS NOT TIED DOWN. BUT IT IS A COMMON FAULT OF GENERALSHIP TO ASSUME THAT HE IS.”

THE FENCE AND VERBAL DE-ESCALATION

A DEEP DIVE WITH ERNIE REYES SR. • AS WE EXPLAINED IN THIS SPOT LAST TIME, BLACK BELT HAS JOINED FORCES WITH JUNGO PLUS TO LAUNCH THE FREE BLACK BELT MAGAZINE CHANNEL. BEFORE WE JUMP INTO HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CHANNEL’S RECENT INTERVIEW WITH ERNIE REYES SR. FOR A NEW EPISODE OF THE MASTER’S WAY, WE THOUGHT WE’D PREVIEW SOME OF THE MOVIES AND INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT AVAILABLE NOW.

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10 THINGS THAT MAKE A TACTICAL KNIFE • CAREFULLY CONSIDER ALL OF THEM BEFORE YOU SPEND YOUR HARD-EARNED CASH!

REPUTATION MATTERS

UP CLOSE WITH ERNEST EMERSON, FOUNDER OF EMERSON KNIVES

2022 BLACK BELT HALL OF FAME • Launched in 1968, the Black Belt Hall of Fame stands as the oldest and most prestigious such entity in the United States — and possibly the world. This notion is driven home every time the editors hear a martial artist say, “You know, I’ve been inducted in four or five halls of fame, but yours is the only one that matters.” Profiled here are the seven inductees who will join that select group in 2022.

METAMORPHOSIS • HOW LINDA DENLEY WENT FROM NEVER HAVING THROWN A PUNCH TO BEING ONE OF THE TOP POINT FIGHTERS IN THE WORLD

WHEN ART MEETS SCIENCE • A NEUROLOGICAL MODEL OF KYUSHO-JITSU AND PRESSURE-POINT KNOCKOUTS

STILL STANDING • HAPKIDO JOINT LOCKS AREN’T JUST FOR THE GROUND!

MARTIAL BL ADE CONCEPTS • FOCUS ON THE TACTICAL WHARNCLIFFE!

A PROVEN PROGRAM FOR RANK ADVANCEMENT • MANAGING BELT RANKS AND PROMOTIONS WOULD APPEAR TO BE A STRAIGHTFORWARD PART OF RUNNING A MARTIAL ARTS SCHOOL, BUT FOR MANY INSTRUCTORS, THE PROCESS IS NOT EASY TO IMPLEMENT AND KEEP UP WITH. IF YOU’VE OWNED A SCHOOL FOR LONG, YOU MIGHT HAVE DISCOVERED THAT FOR YOURSELF.

From the Archives • The 209th issue of Black Belt was dated May 1981. It was 100 pages long and featured hwa rang do master Joo Bang...