The Martial Brain

Jeff offers answers to some questions that he thinks some martial arts students fear to ask.

Jeff deconstructs the traditional demonstration of the alleged internal energy called “chi” known as “The Iron Throat.”

Jeff discusses several common myths about the human brain.

In the fourth installment of Jeff’s miniseries regarding strange behavior in and around the martial arts, he describes the antics of a man we will call Sifu Wu.

Jeff gives us some real facts about the man behind “Chuck Norris facts.”

Jeff winds up his two part podcast on one way that sport fencing organizes tactical thinking.

Jeff discusses a traditional tactical paradigm from sport fencing.

Jeff completes his 4 part series on ancient Sparta with the story of Epaminondas.

Jeff continues his mini-series on the movie “300.”  This time the topic is the poorly concealed racism of the film.

Jeff continues to discuss misconceptions that watching the 2006 film “300” might create.  This week he gives a more historically accurate description of the Battle of Thermopylae, and how the military skills of Spartans, Persians, and non-Spartan Greeks differed from the way the movie depicts.