Welcome to Brisbane OGKK's Myths VS Reality. We've all seen and read what works, what doesn't in the fighting world. So, I won't be going...

Can you believe there's only a week until 2022? Time really does fly when you train week-in week-out and surround yourself with good...

Stumbled across this interview of Ip Man's son (Ip Chun) who is also a renowned Wing Chun teacher talking about a well known kung-fu...

During training this morning, my massive turnout of 1 student and I, throughout the session was stretching and massaging the knees after...

Tonight, we were personally notified that Nanko Minei Sensei (Head of Minei Dojo – Okinawa) was very ill. Unrelated to COVID but...

Remember that feeling of waking up the morning after a big night on the booze and thinking to yourself – “Oh crap, what did I say to such...

Don't have much to say, but WOOO HOOO!

Today, as I was reading some karateka’s blog on Instatrash , there was another reader who posted how he disagreed with the original...

Never expecting anything in return from students apart from training hard and consistently, I was pleasantly surprised by the invite to a...

So we just finished training after a night of focusing on the usual hojo undo, conditioning, and kata, kata and more kata (or maybe more...

THE FAMILY As a result of the current lockdown, for better or worse the whole family have been stuck at home together and will remain so...

It was only about a month ago when Brisbane had a lockdown, and here I am writing away in the middle of another one. The more lockdowns...

As much as I despise social media and all the narcistic posts, photo uploads, and all that other “look how cool my lip pouting is”...

Did you hear that? No, neither did I. The relaxing peace and quiet of lockdown once again here in rainy Brisvegas. Just got out of the...

I can't sleep so what did I do? Enter the dojo of course. A short 45 minute kata session in my pyjamas at 11:00pm.. Too late to train?...

A month ago, we accepted what I would assume, one of our last new students for a long long time. Keeping true to ourselves, we never had...

As I sat down in front of the computer desk at work today, I noticed the previous user had left the PC open at some motivational speech...

So today, I came across a quote by a former well-known Japanese Kata World Champion who stated something along the lines of “Students...

It seems that many people find saying NO to their partners, kids, mates, managers etc rather challenging. Maybe it is because of their...

Before I start, just wanted to say that I seem to write and drift away with ideas and thoughts being disconnected at times – well many...