Martial History Team

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  Today, 21 January 2021, Martial History Team is five years old. I (Richard Bejtlich) started this project to promote martial arts history based on sound evidence and sourced research. Matthew Krueger from the Walking with the Tengu podcast became the second official team member in our first year.  I'm pleased to announce that today Dr Jonathan Clements, featured in the post  Best Book Winner: General Martial Arts Histories in English  for his book  A Brief History of the Martial Arts , has also joined Martial History Team. See the post after this one for his contributed book review. The project is currently a mix of daily social media posts, monthly longer form blog posts, and periodic short form podcasts (courtesy of Mr. Krueger).  The daily social media posts feature books in the MHT library, or planned acquisitions. I use the hashtag #martialartsmailcall to label these books on Instagram. If you prefer Twitter or Facebook I post using the...

  This is Richard Bejtlich writing today.  I wanted to offer a quick update on the status of Martial History Team .  It's been about two months since the last post to the blog . I haven't had the focus to work on any dedicated, longer-form research for the team during the last few months. The primary reason is that in my spare time I've been working on the second volume of my latest cyber security project , shown in the image. I plan to finish that book this month, and then turn my attention to volume 3. Working on that book is a project outside of my day job, which also involves cyber security. While writing these books, I'm still reading martial arts history and research. I'm also producing regular social media content on the Martial History Team Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook pages. Thanks to Matthew Krueger, we also have a few new Martial History Team podcast episodes! Finally, in fits and spurts, I write book reviews for Martial Journal . I've also be...

Martial History Team promotes martial arts history based on sound evidence and sourced research. In the coming months, expect to read book reviews, recommended history materials, and much more! We are currently posting most of the new content on the site's Facebook page , although we expect to transition content for permanent record to this blog.

 Martial History Team is coming soon! This marks our first activity on Facebook .