Woodland Hills, CA – December 6, 2010 – Fariborz Azhakh, founder of Hapkido Blend and owner of martialinfo.com, the largest repository of martial arts information on the web, ascended to rarefied heights when he received his seventh degree Black Belt in Hapkido. He received the honor from Steve Sexton, an eight degree black belt in [...]

Born to Brawl, Benny Urquidez Lived Through a Death Match to Become One of the Greatest Unknown Fighters in America. By STEVE HENSON, Times Staff Writer To the death!” Benny (the Jet) Urquidez’s eyes nearly shot out of their sockets when he heard the words. Foam collected on his lips and sweat slipped off his [...]

(Los Angeles) As difficult as it may be to believe, the legendary Bruce Lee, would have turned 70 years old this year. And while it may — or perhaps not — be difficult to imagine him as a septuagenarian still beating down bad guys, what can’t be denied is decades after his passing, he remains [...]

WOODLAND HILLS, CA – Team Karate Centers, www.teamkaratecenters.com, admin@teamkaratecenters.com First Martial Artist to Provide Hapkido Training Tapes Returns for More In 1982, the first training tapes ever to show Hapkido methods were released by Panther Productions, and quickly fought its way to becoming one of Panther Production’s best selling videos everywhere, as well as creating [...]

On May 23rd, 2009 in front of over 100 friends, family and students, Taejoon Lee was promoted to 8th Dan Black Sash Grandmaster and given the title of Kuk Sa Nim. During his speech, Grandmaster Taejoon Lee revealed the real reason for allowing his students to organize this beautiful and historic event — to honor [...]

Martial Arts SuperShow 2009 was a total success. Here are a few photos from the event.