The late Bruce Lee was a huge inspiration to many Martial Artists today to explore combat arts, and rightfully so as Bruce Lee was way ahead of his time and era. Lee was a great innovator and technical analyst when it came to functional martial arts in terms of “absorbing what is useful and rejecting [...]

After a difficult 2010 seeing Smacktalk go through many changes, most of which behind the scenes, we emerge somewhat battered and bruised but still very much alive. The difficulty in any new publication is to find its feet within the industry to which it serves and although far from being the de facto MMA publication [...]

Fight Force’s New Year’s resolution was to bring fight fans all the MMA action they can handle. The 2011 calendar is packed with excitement and kicks off with Fight Force: Aftermath on 30 January. Aftermath will be Fight Force’s 11th show and is sure to get the year off to a good start when welterweight [...]

The only thing worse than being mounted by a competent ground fighter is for your opponent to take your back. These two positions are top on the priority list when it comes to MMA/BJJ or submission wrestling bouts. It is imperative to add drills and performance games into your training/preparation to not just improve your [...]