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Volume 20 Number 3

    1. "Fighting Heroes: The Core Values of the Xia Tradition in Early China" by Albert Dalia, Ph.D.
    2. "Issues Concerning Board Breaking" by Phil Davison, M.A.
    3. "Cultural Myths: Unpacking the Origins of Muay Thai" by Loh Han Loong, B.S.
    4. "Nahate: The Old School Okinawan Martial Art and Its Original Four-Kata Curriculum, Part II" by Mario McKenna, M.S.
    5. "Three Techniques of Dantian Rotation in Chen Taiji: Internal Energy Techniques and Their Relationship with the Body’s Meridians" by Bosco Seung-Chul Baek, B.S.
    6. "Oshigata: Appreciating Japanese Sword Tracings for Their Reference and Beauty" by Anthony DiCristofano
    7. "A Taxonomy of Principles Used in Judo Throwing Techniques" by Linda Yiannakis, M.S.

      Volume 20 Number 2

      1. “Multiple Intelligences in the Process of Learning Martial Arts—Using Taijiquan as an Example” by S. Dale Brown, M.A.
      2. “Boxer Zhang Songxi and the Origins of the Internal-External School Concept” by Marnix Wells, Ph.D., and Stanley E. Henning, M.A.
      3. “Aikido and Body-Awareness Training for Peacemaking and Combat” by Paul Linden, Ph.D.
      4. “A Study in Maximizing Speed through Ving Tsun Concepts” by Jeff Webb
      5. “Capoeira: Brazil’s Martial and Cultural Art Form” by Shannon Roxborough
      6. “A Study of Armbar Submissions in Ultimate Fighting Championship Contests from 2000 to 2011” by Rhadi Ferguson, Ph.D.
      7. “Nahate: The Old School Okinawan Martial Art and Its Original Four-Kata Curriculum, Part I” by Mario McKenna, M.S.
      8. “Ancient Chinese Bronze Swords in the MacLean Collection” by Richard A. Pegg, Ph.D.
       

      Volume 20 Number 1

      1. “The Evolution of Kicking Techniques in Taekwondo” by Udo Moenig, M.A.
      2. “Sorting Out Categories of Bladed Weaponry Using the ‘Persian Revival Sword’ as an Example” by Ruel A. Macaraeg, J.D.
      3. “Self-reflection and the Organization of Experience: Examining Inaba Minoru’s Budo as a Form of Art” by Campbell Edinborough, Ph.D.
      4. “Reflecting on Traditional Martial Arts: Past, Present, and Future” by Nicholas C. Yang, M.S.
      5. “Attention, Sit, Meditate, Bow, Ready Position: Ritualized Dojo Pattern or Character Training? by Marvin Labbate
      6. “Form and Function: Why Push-Hands Is Essential to the Practice of Taijiquan” by Hal Mosher, B.A.
       

      Volume 19 Number 4

      1. “The way of kata in Kodokan judo” by L. Jones, Ph.D., and M. Hanon, Ph.D.
      2. “Conditioning the axis of the body: Martial and yogic training methods, East and West” by A. Pittman, C.M.T., C.H.M.
      3. “Aikido defenses against real-world attacks” by R. Suenaka and C. Taylor, M.S.
      4. “How baguazhang incorporates theory from the Book of Changes” by T. Joern, B.A.
       

      Volume 19 Number 3

      1. “Talent detection in taekwondo practitioners” by W. Pieter, Ph.D.
      2. “A historical overview of mixed martial arts in China” by W. Acevedo, M.Eng. and M. Cheung, B.A.
      3. “Learning India’s martial art of kalarippayattu: Unsettled ecologies of gender, class, culture, and ethnicity” by S. Schneider, Ph.D.
      4. “Fighting women of kabuki theater and the legacy of women’s Japanese martial arts” by D. Klens-Bigman, Ph.D.
      5. “Tensegrity: Development of dynamic balance and internal power in taijiquan” by M. Rosario Graycar and R. Tomlinson, M.Ed.
      6. “Practical fighting strategies of Indonesian kuntao-silat in the Willem Reeders tradition" by M. DeMarco, M.A.
       

      Volume 19 Number 2

      1. “Integrative combat: An empirical  perspective of the martial arts” by G. Vey, M.Sc.
      2. “The pineal gland's biochemical function in the fighting and meditative arts, exemplified in
        Korean Sinmoo Hapkido”         by S. Bradley, N.D., L.Ac.
      3. “Evaluating makiwara punching board performance” by P. Smith, Ph.D., T. Niiler, Ph.D., and P. McCullough, B.S.
      4. “Comprehensive penitentiary defense as developed for use in Spain” by F. Rodríguez Román, Ph.D. and C. Gutiérrez García, Ph.D.
      5. “Liu Xiheng: Memories of a taiji sage” by B. Lo, Xu Y., Yuan W., Xu Z., and D. Emerick. Compiled & edited by R. Mason, M.A.
       

      Volume 19 Number 1

      1. “Dangerous animals and the Asian martial arts” by R. Dohrenwend, Ph.D.
      2. “From warriors to sportsmen: How traditional Chinese martial arts adapted to modernity” by K. Filipiak, Ph.D.
      3. “Is there a warrior within?” by E. Symmes, B.A.
      4. “Forty fears of martial art training and almost sixty years old” by J. Neide, Ph.D.
      5. “Training of the lower body for better stances, steps, and kicks” by A. Pittman, C.M.T., C.H.M.
      6. “North star: Head butting as a weapon in Chinese martial arts” by J. Burroughs, B.A.