How To: Do the compressor arm lock and break
Here is one way to get the hands free when someone is grabbing around your waist as you go for the gangsta lean position. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
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How To: Do the Mir Lock
Here is a shoulder lock from the open guard (basically an ude garami or maki hiji lock) that Frank Mir pulled of against Pete Williams. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Arm break in the arm bar position
The silverado is an arm crush and usually one of the last moves to go for when all the others have been blocked. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Do a backward roll
Here is a brief how to on the backward roll in jiu jitsu. This is often neglected in the martial arts community, but it is very helpful to know.
How To: Do a forward roll
Here is a brief video on how to start doing the forward roll in Jiu Jitsu. Ukemi (rolling and falling) are very important in the martial arts and often neglected.
How To: Do the guillotine choke from mount
The guillotine from mount is a crank and a choke. This martial arts technique can be very tight and hard to do.
How To: Do the anaconda choke
This choke hold is dangerous because your opponent will not always want to tap out. This is a great hold to do, and gives you control of his or her body. This martial arts technique takes practice.
How To: Do a triangle choke from side control
This video shows how to do a triangle choke with invert armbar from side control. This is a very effective martial arts choke hold.
How To: Do the scorpion crunch
The Scorpion Crunch is an effective but not full proof grab. This can cause people to throw up, and cannot be done to everyone. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Do the 3 points of death triangle drill
Ever failed to get a triangle choke? This drill allows you to get a tepee or bolt lock if the triangle fails. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Do basic karate for kids
This martial arts video demonstrates basic karate techniques for kids and beginners. No one should attempt to try these techniques without being trained and supervised by a qualified karate instructor.
How To: Choose spray paint tips for graffiti
Whether you are interested in graffiti, graffiti-style fine art, or just looking to learn more about spray painting this video is for you. It gives a quick overview of the several spray paint tips and the different lines they produce.
How To: Learn the basics of Tricking
This tutorial teaches the basics of tricking, a form of martial arts combining gymnastics, fighting, and breakdancing.
How To: Do half guard technique to a choke hold
Joanne and Lauren bring you a lesson from the MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) Girls series. In this video the sexy ladies demonstrate how to do a half guard technique to a choke hold.
How To: Practice with a nunchuck
This is a lesson on nunchaku self defense training & exercise. This is a martial art technique made famous to many American children by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
How To: Exercise with a bo staff
This tutorial covers different exercises that you can do with a bo staff. Flexibility and strength are always important when doing martial arts and these exercises should help your training.
How To: Make street art stickers
For the urban artist, this video shows how to leave your own personal touch to whatever you desire via a sticker. While there is no verbal instruction, the music is relaxing and the text messages provide clear directions. Get out there and make your mark!
How To: Enhance traditional art methods with digital media
Have you ever heard of tradigital art? Tradigital art incorporates traditional materials with digital media. This is a combination of such techniques as illustration with Decocolor Markers, Prismacolor Markers, pencils, and Photoshop. Watch this tutorial to learn how to enhance traditional art methods with digital media. It illustrates the tradigital process step-by-step. Make sure to pause the video after each step and look at the screen every few seconds while you are drawing.
How To: Practice extreme form martial arts
Extreme form is mixing acrobatics, gymnastics and martial arts for performance and showmanship. Learn about creating an extreme form martial arts performance from a black belt kung fu instructor in this free video series.
How To: Practice meditative exercises of Shaolin martial arts
There is more to martial arts than violence, and the Shaolin know this; learn the meditative, spiritual side of Shaolin Kung Fu in this free martial arts video series.
How To: Do 720 martial arts kicks
Learn from our martial arts expert how to do 720 tae kwon do kicks including 720 degree crescent and hook kicks, in this free martial arts video series on doing 720 kicks.
How To: Do Krav Maga, Israeli martial arts
In this video series, our expert Julio Rivera will tell you all about krav maga, he will show you how o defend against a front choke, a side choke, and a rear choke. He will teach you how to defend against a bear hug, a wrist grab, and an escrima stick attack.
How To: Paint your nails with a white and silver art design
The process of painting your fingernails, with a French manicure with silver accents, is a multi-stepped process. Before you begin, put a hydrating base-coat on your bare nail, and let it dry. Then take white nail art polish, and draw three parallel diagonal lines across the nail, starting from the top of the nail (where the white meets the skin" to the bottom. Once you have completed the three lines, take white nail polish and create a French manicure, filling in the nail from the skin line ...
News: Intel Opens AR Portal to Smithsonian's Burning Man Exhibit via Snapchat
Burning Man 2018 is underway, but Intel and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are giving those not in attendance the ability to view the art from the event through Snapchat.
How To: Create 8-Bit Pixel Art & Animations on Your Samsung Galaxy S3
Give me a paintbrush and easel and you'll be sorely disappointed, but give me a Samsung Galaxy S3 and a new app called Let's 8-Bit Art and you might call me the next Picasso.
How To: Do Heart Leopard Nails
This is one of the most fun designs I created this valentines day for girls who needed something easy and trendy to flaunt on their nails on this special day of the year !
How To: Create Velvet Hearts Nails
This is a very adorable looking nail design that I tried a few days back on my valentines day list of 'nails to do' ! It worked out exactly as I had planned , though during the execution it looked as if it may not, and I was happy enough to post this design online and share it with my viewers!
How To: Take Good Care of Your Nails
I have been getting requests for this one since a really long time. So finally a few days back I decided to step up and create a video on nail care and help lots of girls out there who are facing nail issues on a daily basis.
How To: Do Easy Heart Nails for Valentines Day
This is one of my personal favorite designs from last year, that I wanted to share with you all for this year's valentines day !
How To: Do Sequin Nails
In this video , I have done a very easy and quick sequin nail manicure ! Video: .
How To: Do Striping Tape Nails
Striping tapes are very popular these days , among nail enthusiasts. One of the main reasons is that not only is it super easy to use, but you can literally create hundreds of styles by using them right !
How To: Adapt tai chi for martial arts
Tai Chi is an ancient form of Chinese martial arts that incorporates the use of meditative movements. Learn various applications of performing Tai Chi as a form of self defense from a professional Tai Chi instructor in this free video series.
How To: Practice self-defense with mixed martial arts
Practical self defense, MMA style! Defend against headlocks, mounts, grappling, choke holds, and more in this free video on mixed martial arts and self defense.
How To: Do judo Japanese martial arts
In this online video series, learn judo techniques from 12 time U.S. National Masters Champion Sensei John T. Anderson, as he demonstrates moves such as the compression arm lock, forearm lock, Hadaka Jin rear stranglehold, breakfalling, Juji Gatame cross lock, Kate Te Jume stranglehold, Kisa Katame, straight arm lock, Tai Otosha body throw, passing guard, Ko Uchi Gari major inside reap, leg throw, arm entwining, and Uke Otoshi hand drop.
How To: Escape a bottom pin by using an arm post technique
If your opponent in a martial arts match has pinned you on the bottom, you can use a special technique to escape. Frank Mir, a champion of Brazilian jiu jitsu, demonstrates the way to use an arm post to get out of the pin. Move your opponent over your center line and use your elbows to escape.
How To: Get started sewing with the right sewing tools
It's pretty much common knowledge that a successful sewing kit requires several different sizes of needles as well as differently colored thread. And if you're solely focused on patching up those favorite JBrand jeans of yours or a hole in a T-shirt, then that may be all you need.
How To: Fold an origami cup
Looking for a craft project as easy as it is useful? This video demonstrates everything you'll need to know to make simple, functional paper cups using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For detailed instructions, and to get started making your own paper cups, watch this free video arts-and-crafts guide.
How To: Make a paper origami box
Looking for a fun and useful crafts project? Learn to make the most utile (and simplest) of origami sculptures, the paper box. This video tutorial presents a complete, step-by-step overview of how to make a barebones paper box using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, and to get started making your own paper boxes, watch this arts-and-crafts guide.
How To: Draw Ratchet From Rachet And Clank digitally
Clank, the loveable robot sidekick of Ratchet from the Playstation games Ratchet and Clank, is the subject of this art tutorial video. Learn to draw the iconic robot in Paint on your computer, improving your digital art skills and indulging your love for these video games at the same time.
How To: Make an easy rose from folded paper with origami
Grow your paper garden as well as your knowledge of origami by making fun, decorative paper roses. This video tutorial presents a complete, step-by-step overview of how to make paper roses using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, and to get started making your own paper flowers, watch this arts-and-crafts guide.