The bastards (for some reason) discuss the relevance of lineage in your day to day training and if and how it adds any validity to your training.

The bastards discuss a common flaw the general approach many partner training drills.

A short discussion on the culture of letting bullshit (of all kinds) ride in the name of respect.

A quick chat on the need (or not) to cross train other arts to complete your skills.

Part 3 of the changes discussion, the first two look at what we've dropped from our classical training, both culturally and training methodology. This one isn't really "baggage" related but we must have replaced stuff we've dropped, this is our attempt to tell you what it is.

Follow up from the cultural baggage chat, this time discussing "traditional" training practices that we have dropped from our training and why.

The Bastards muse on the cultural baggage attached to Western karate, what they've kept, what they've dropped and the places in between.

The Bastards and special guest Andy Allen discuss some of their favourite instructors and seminar experiences...

The Bastards and special guest Andy Allen discuss some of their favourite instructors and seminar experiences...

Does conventional Kihon really fit with the applied method?