Martial Arts and Fitness News Feed

Wikipedia will add video, Just like the Akban-wiki

Yossi Sheriff — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:12:02 GMT

Wikipedia will soon provide its editors and users with video editing capabilities. Users will be able to import, edit and review videos inside Wikipedia. This is a true revolution – the ability to use the immense Wikipedia community to tag and append content to video media will contribute new insi

Why do we need martial arts wiki in addition to wikipedia?

Yossi Sheriff — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:38:14 GMT

When looking at the academical part of the Akban project there is always the question: Why did we, Akban veterans, invest so much time and effort in building and maintaining a martial art wiki when there is an alternative, namely Wikipedia? <

New martial arts wiki

Yossi Sheriff — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:01:46 GMT

We have a new Martial Arts wiki today.
Gone are the cumbersome wikipedia skins, css and boxes. Gone is the mutual navigation with the akban.org site.

On the helm was Hebrew.
We continue to update t

Schedule in Holocaust remembrance day and Israeli independence day.

Yossi Sheriff — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:04:53 GMT

Due to the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day there was no training yesterday - 20/4/2009, and training today - 21/4/2009, will resume only after 18:00.
Next week, in all Akban veterans dojos, there will be no train

Akban martial arts on the web

Yossi Sheriff — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:45:38 GMT

There is no immediate cure for the gap between our growing user base and our small budget.
I guess that this means we will have to deal with periods of downtime due to peak demands. Since the non-existent business model behind our project is just "Serve our community" with no consumerism invo

How to survive the Akban fitness program?

מוני ג. — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:51:01 GMT

I've been doing the Akban fitness program for years, I like the fact that it's gradual and allows me to stay fit even now, when I'm a bit older.
As every trainee knows, even in best health there are off days, days when we preform bel

Server upgrade

Yossi Sheriff — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:50:07 GMT

Initially we weren't prepared for so many visitors, bandwidth and database functions - so last month we had several hours of downtime due to server overload.
We migrated servers to one lightly better. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Pakistan Karate Federation train in Turkey, Judokas train in Iran

מוני ג. — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:08:06 GMT

Four members of the PKF will be dispatched to Turkey to train there in Karate for the First Asian Martial Arts, in Bangkok from April 25 to May 3.
The Pakistani Judo team is practicing in Tehran for the same event.

Ken Shemrok, an MMA legend banned for a year

מוני ג. — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:16:31 GMT

After a recent, post competition check, California State Athletic Commission officials found Shemrok positive with three forms of steroids.
Shemrok, who is now 44, will have to pay a fine of 2500 US$.

Why don't we post more front page news?

Yossi Sheriff — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:30:57 GMT

This web site is very active, active in a web 1.0 kind of way. During the last months our extremely lean crew (recession and other problems has decimated the number of active people working on the Ak

Aikido beginners course opening on February 5th, 2009

Yossi Sheriff — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:19:59 GMT

This 8-week course is an introduction to the basics and principles of the Aikido art. You will learn the techniques and principles of centre, balance, non-resistance, and harmony of movement in the Aikido weapon techniques.
More to come...
links:
Krav Maga seems like a natural choice since it a

Three Akban veterans competed in the ADCC Israel preliminaries

Yossi Sheriff — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:28:17 GMT

The ADCC is one of the most important martial sporting events in the world today. The best grappling technicians in the world attend it every two years, free from gambling pressures and surplus aggression.
Three veterans from Akban participated in the ADCC Israeli round preliminaries. Two, Am

ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club) in Israel

Shimi Samuel — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:44:00 GMT

The ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club) grappling championship is holding preliminary competitions in Israel on the 20th of December.
Winner of the open category will proceed to the official ADCC preliminaries in Sweden, in January 2008.

You can call the organizers at: 972-54-6957795 <

Sword and Weapon practice in the Akban martial arts school

Yossi Sheriff — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:28:28 GMT

Budo Ninjutsu practice includes ancient martial arts

New Martial arts' videos portal!

Yossi Sheriff — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:17:28 GMT

We just uploaded a beta of your Martial arts videos portal, and are pretty happy with it.

Till now, in order to find a movie of a martial art technique the viewer had to know the name of the technique, search the technique in the

YouTube Israel opened shop and featured an Akban BJJ clip!

מוני ג. — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:17:00 GMT

YouTube opened a new Israeli video site today and featured another BJJ clip we videoed for the Akban-wiki, our

111 Randori in 111 minutes

Yossi Sheriff — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:34:22 GMT

Word is out that Danis Hanover's martial system: "Hisardut" is scheduling a sparring session - randori - in Mr. Hanover's honour.
Mr. Hanover is one of the pillars of martial arts in Israel and has been the teacher of some Akban vetera