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Three Levels of the Front Kick
International Kickboxer Magazine, Vol.17, No.2 The front kick, or push kick is a unique weapon in the skilful kickboxer’s arsenal. It has a smaller contact area than the round kick, which allows as...
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Rolling Thunder: Peter Graham
This is the 11th hour knockout from when Peter Graham fought Badr Hari at the K1 WGP in New Zealand, 2006. I had originally provided a link to the entire fight, but the file has since expired, or...
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Vanity
Photo courtesy of Terry Vorg https://lifestyletrainers.com.au/blog/2010/12/in-the-spotlight-jarrod-boyle.html This is a link to an interview for the Lifestyle Trainers website. I got the opportunity to...
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Lucy Tui: First Lady of Australian Kickboxing
Lucy Tui and I commentating for 'Eruption' in 2010 International Kickboxer Magazine Vol.18, No.6 For Lucy Sassen Tui, fighting was in her blood; her father had been the New Zealand heavyweight amateur...
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Mark ‘The Hammer’ Castagnini
Mark Castagnini is one of the key players in Australian Thai boxing. Beginning his career as a fighter, he went through traditional martial arts before taking up Thai boxing almost by accident and...
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Peter Graham
Blitz Magazine, December 2012 The day I talked to Peter, he was managing multiple tasks and unsure I’d be able to get any sense out of him. “I’ve just come from ten rounds of sparring!” At 106...
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Thug Sport
I am turning my back on the UFC. And it’s George Saint-Pierre’s fault. The main event at UFC 158 was a title clash between Nick Diaz and GSP. The pre-fight weigh-in and press conference devolved into...
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Ramon Dekkers: The Legend and the Legacy
International Kickboxer Magazine, May/June 2013 Ramon Dekkers was the most significant Western fighter to wear the Mongkon. In fact, he and Rob Kaman can be credited with re-inventing Muay Thai in...
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Semmy Schilt: Going to the Mountain
International Kickboxer Magazine, May/June 2013 Semmy Schilt is one of the most dominant champions in the history of fightsports. Standing at two-meters-twelve-centimeters and weighing somewhere in...
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Peter Aerts
International Kickboxer Magazine, Nov/Dec 2014 Peter Aerts, like all ‘great’ athletes, is most often defined in terms of the length of his career and the titles he’s won. True definition, however, is...
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Kyokushin Warrior – Daniel Trifu
Blitz Magazine, January 2015 After a serious accident that nearly claimed his life, Sydney-based Kyokushin Karate sensei Daniel Trifu not only regained his full health, but returned to fight...
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Peter Graham – Professional Fighter
Fight! Magazine, July 2015 Peter Graham has had more than one hundred fights – full-contact karate, kickboxing, boxing and mixed martial arts – and never broken a bone. “I went and had a bone scan at...
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UFC 193 in Melbourne: Steven ‘Steamrolla’ Kennedy
Steven ‘Steamrolla’ Kennedy steps into the octagonal circle on November 14 for UFC 193, the inaugural event for the world’s biggest fightsports organization. His name is currently up in lights at...
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Verhoeven and Holzken: the New Generation of Dutch Dominance
International Kickboxer Magazine, March/April 2016 Glory 26 was held on December the fourth of last year in Amsterdam, the unofficial capital of European kickboxing. The two biggest draw-cards of the...
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Miyamoto Musashi Versus Cameron Quinn: A Book of Five Rings
Shihan Cameron Quinn is, by the standards of ‘Theme Park…’, a luminary. He began training in Kyokushin Karate in 1971 and lived in Japan in 1976, studying Japanese and training at the Kyokushin Honbu...
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Miyamoto Musashi Versus Cameron Quinn: A Book of Five Rings
2. What are your thoughts on M as a mythological figure? History does that to larger than life characters. I’ve watched films about Mas Oyama, and they are ridiculous. It’s similar to what has become...
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