Heavyweight Grappling Collision Confirmed for NEXTREME Contender Series 2 in Purmerend
NEXTREME is tightening the screws on its December schedule, rolling out a card built for pressure and decisive outcomes. On 13 December, the Contender Series 2 event hits H20 Purmerend, bringing with it a heavyweight…
Champions made at Australian Shaolin Kempo tournament
Australia. November 29, 2025 Over 35 martial artists competed at the Shaolin Kempo QLD tournament in Brisbane, Australia over the weekend in a spectacular display of fighting artistry across 3 divisions in 13 categories. Shaolin…
Historical comparison of knife and razor crime schools
When you look at different knife schools (Italian, Spanish, Canarian, Latin American, Russian), it seems as if they are isolated phenomena. But if you line up the chronology, it becomes clear that all these schools…
“WORLD RYUKYU KOBUDO CHAMPIONSHIP 2026” Okinawa A place where tradition ceases to be history – and becomes power.
OKINAWA, JAPAN – 2026. In the world of martial arts, there are events that set trends. There are those that uphold traditions. And there are individual events that set standards for decades to come. One…
“Nordic Taekwondo Championships 2026” The North prepares for the big fight
On January 24, 2026, one of the key events of the winter season for Northern European taekwondo will take place in Skanderborg, Denmark: the Nordic Taekwondo Championships 2026. The tournament will bring together athletes from…
“European IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2026” kicks off in Portugal: thousands of athletes head to Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal. One of the world’s largest Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournaments, the European IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2026, will officially open on January 15 and run until January 24. The venue is once again the Pavilhão Multiusos…
«World of Martial Arts» opens up new opportunities for masters
World of Martial Arts, is pleased to announce the launch of a new section designed to serve as a platform for direct dialogue with the professional community. The magazine’s website now offers masters, instructors, researchers,…
Death at three o’clock in the afternoon. The physics of Navaja
A feint is not just an optical illusion. It is a blow to the cause-and-effect relationship. Kozyrev argued that cause and effect are connected not only by a straight line in the past and future, but also through a “timeless state.” When a master makes a feint, he creates a false cause. He throws a phantom event into space-time. The opponent’s brain, accustomed to the linear logic of “I see movement – I expect a strike,” catches this false cause and begins to construct a consequence for it — it begins to block a non-existent attack.
Sergej Engelmann is free: a year of imprisonment in the Dr. Maltsev case ends in victory for the defense
On October 21, 2025, the Odessa Court of Appeals decided to release German journalist and editor of World of Martial Arts after a full year in custody in a pretrial detention center. The decision became possible thanks to the persistent work of the defense, which exposed numerous procedural violations and the absence of any real grounds for the charges.
German Embassy Sends Note of Protest to Ukrainian Foreign Ministry — Reason: Prosecutor Ruslan Voitov’s Violations in the Sergej Engelmann Case
The situation surrounding the criminal prosecution of Sergej Engelmann, editor-in-chief of World of Martial Arts Magazine and a German journalist, continues to escalate. In May of this year, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of…
Our editor’s lawyer Alexandr Babikov: “The most puzzling thing was the accusation… which did not specify at all what exactly he had done wrong.”
In our world, courage is usually measured by how one performs in the ring, in the dojo, or on the battlefield of life. But today, the battle we bring to your attention is one fought…
Official Statement: Detention of Our Editor Sergej Engelmann
On October 14, 2024, our editor, Sergej Engelmann, was detained at the Ukrainian border while en route to visit his family in Cologne. Sergej is currently being held in a pre-trial detention center. We have…