When I began my studies in Electrical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, I was a rather shy person. I had desired to start a martial arts club on campus, but I thought it would be worthwhile for me to stop in and try out the Jujutsu class and Continue Reading
Whole Body is a Weapon
A concept we have in martial arts is to utilize your whole body in a technique to maximize power. For example when we do a kick it’s not just our leg muscles activating, we use our abs to lift, our hips to thrust, and the strength of your leg and Continue Reading
Transferrable Martial Arts Skills
A lot of times when we think about our martial art skills, we only think about them in terms of self defense or tournaments. Yet, our martial arts skills can help us in other situations as well. The skills we develop in training such as break falls, rolling, reaction time, Continue Reading
Positive Self Image
I’ve been on a long journey with self-confidence, it wasn’t always easy for me to believe in myself. Every time I couldn’t get a new skill, whether it be a new guitar riff or advanced kick, I’d beat myself up, say I suck, and think it’s just never going to Continue Reading
Top Posts From 2021
Urban Martial Artists have been around for a year now. It’s crazy to us how much we have been able to write and how many people read our articles. Over the past year, we noticed that these were your favorite articles. We thank you so much for being apart of Continue Reading
Manifestation
Something I’ve heard of a lot in mainstream alternative culture lately is the concept of “manifesting”. Manifesting is essentially something theoretical becoming real, so basically meditating/focusing on something to make it become your reality. It has been used in many memes, such as someone manifesting some Burger King and having Continue Reading
3 Keys to a Good Test
I had the opportunity to judge a regional black belt pretest recently. In the process of testing for my 4th Dan, this is a new responsibility that I get to take on and as such, I was very excited. I was the first judge on the panel to make it Continue Reading
Mind Muscle Connection
With the world in quarantine for the past few years, I took it upon myself to find new and interesting ways to work out. Before the pandemic, I was going to the gym to lift weights every few days and just did a handful of exercises I’d learned throughout years Continue Reading
Moo Shim
You will often associate Bruce Lee with the phrases “Be like water” and “Wu Shein” or “Moo Shim” if you are a Korean Stylist. The latter two references allude to the idea of having an empty mind, and not thinking of anything. He always notes how important these things are Continue Reading
Finding Company
I was an extremely anxious kid growing up, and one of the scariest experiences for me was having to go to middle school and not have the option to come home for lunch. I know it seems silly, but I literally had a stomach ache for months leading up to Continue Reading