One of the most difficult things about owning and running a martial arts school is knowing when to drop a difficult client. At some point we have all tried to […]

On April 26, 2014 I received my 9th Dan in Traditional TaeKwon-Do from Grandmaster Robert Dunn among an assembly of other noted grandmasters.  The occasion was attended by martial artists […]

by GM Jeff Helaney I admit it; I was a closet Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fan. For years I watched the Ultimate Fighting Competition and PRIDE bouts on television. I […]

by GM Jeff Helaney My first introduction to the martial arts came through movies. Iconic stories like “Enter theDragon” and “Billy Jack” had helped bring martial arts into mainstream American […]

by GM Jeff Helaney There is no light without darkness. There is no man with out woman. There is no hard without soft. It is a basic philosophical construct that […]

by GM Jeff Helaney The development of Chinese Qigong can be viewed by looking at four different periods. The first period probably started around the time the “Yi Jing” (Book […]

by GM Jeff Helaney The measure of a man worth isn’t in how he deals with adversity, but how he deals with success. In times of trouble we are often […]

by GM Jeff Helaney For the real instructors out there a bit of hard earned wisdom…(and to the one instructor who needs to hear this today) I know you don’t […]

photo of Ben Thompson USKF member Ohio …teaching a martial arts class by example by GM Jeff Helaney I have known a number of otherwise very good martial artists over […]

photo of GM Jeff Helaney and Master Mike Munyon by GM Jeff Helaney This summer will mark my forty-fifth year as a martial artist. In that modest amount of time […]