In this episode of the Martial Podcast, host Mark Jacobs talks to Professor Rey Gonzales, one of the world's leading historians of Filipino martial arts, who explains how everything you think you know about FMA history is probably wrong.

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In this episode of The Martial Podcast, host Mark Jacobs examines why you may not want to mix your karate kata with handguns (unless you really don't like all the people standing around you in the dojo).

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In this episode of The Martial Podcast, host Mark Jacobs talks with SWAT officer and World Police and Fire Games martial arts champion Don Gulla about training police officers, grappling over a weapon and his Arrestling defensive tactics program for law enforcement.

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