This website has remained unused for too long. The question I have asked myself is: why?

The answer to that question is a surprising one, at least to me. What I have realised is that I spend a lot of my online time keeping up with stories of war and suffering. A martial arts website has seemed petty in light of the tribulations facing many in the world today. But two things have dawned on me:

1) Silence is complicity, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us

2) The martial arts are about preservation and improvement of life, at a personal level, as well as a political one. Thus, a martial arts perspective on world events is germane and, perhaps, needed in the public forum.

Consequently, I have rededicated this website as of 2009 to discussions and education about ways to improve and preserve life, through fitness and martial arts training, meditation and purposeful living - but also through active participation in political and ideological discourse, as a way to promote what I believe to be the ultimate goal of martial arts, which is peace!

Wishing you a happy and safe new year,

Bruce Stafford

Editor

Frankfurt Germany is known for its banks and, of course, its hot dogs. But Frankfurt might also be considered the martial arts capital of Germany. MAJ - Martial Arts Journal (.com) is starting its examination of world martial arts with a look at some of the schools and clubs in this small but cosmopolitan city.