It has been Michael Matsuda’s lifelong passion to keep the history of martial arts alive for the public, and after 20 years of doing so, he’s showing no signs of slowing down. Matsuda’s Martial Arts ...

Lilly Rodriguez, a pioneering female boxer and world kickboxing champion who helped establish kickboxing as a sport for women, has died. She was 59. Rodriguez, who owned the Heart of Champions gym in ...

With the games set for Japan, the martial art will at last debut at next month’s competition Tony Perrottet; Photographs by Jun Tsuboike Yakumo Academy High School karate team members practice a kata.

From his friendship with Bruce Lee to the many thousands of students he taught over a lengthy career, Castro was a key contributor to martial arts culture in the Bay and well beyond. A portrait of ...

'The Invention of Martial Arts' examines the media history of what we now call `martial arts' and argues that martial arts is a cultural construction that was born in film, TV, and other media. It ...

Muay Thai is a martial art that focuses on powerful strikes, close-quarters combat (also called clinch work), and conditioning. A martial art is a system of combat that comes from a specific culture.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The 16th annual Dragonfest Expo returned to ...