The Pittsburgh Fitness Expo: Promoting healthy active lifestyles since 1999. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13kARsVmeMA Video highlights from Kumite Classic’s Pittsburgh Fitness Expo May 22-23rd 2015 at Monroeville Convention Center.

Pittsburgh sport karate is creating an online resource for news and media articles for Western PA sport martial arts. Stay connected. www.pittsburghsportkarate.com Pittsburgh’s largest sport karate tournament is the Kumite Classic Memorial Day Weekend. Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Tribune Review Photo courtesy of Team Kumite

Who’s Your Daddy? Who is the real father of MMA… Courtesy of Pittsburgh MMA: https://pittsburghmma.com/2015/02/the-real-father-of-mma/ Alexander Cartwright, James Naismith and Walter Camp all share a similar rite of passage, each has been honored as the “father” of their respective sports: Baseball, Basketball and Football. For all intents and purposes history credits them with invention, although...

Hard copies available at www.godfathersofmma.com  Godfathers of MMA (The untold history of the sport of mixed martial arts) Don’t be fooled by the hype, Pittsburgh is the birthplace of modern MMA.   The best kept secret in mma What do an NFL star, a United States Secret Service Agent, Sylvester Stallone’s bodyguard, and Muhammad Ali’s sparring partner...

Viola Family Karate Legacy   A Pittsburgh Legacy “Building Champions in Life” Pittsburgh, PA — January 5th, 2015 Photo courtesy trib total media Winning World Titles is nothing new for the Viola family, especially for Duquesne University law student Ali Viola. Over the course of the past decade, she has become a 7x National Black...