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Posts about martial arts concepts and history.
Last week, it was testing preparation at Willow Martial Arts. We went through the walking drills, forms and self-defense required for Taekwondo testing. As I observed the students preparing, I remembered a statement Master Pat Weseman often told me when I was a colored belt preparing for my next Taekwondo test. “Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
Most self-defense programs are made up of striking or grappling techniques. A few self-defense systems use techniques from both. Striking and grappling techniques can both be effective but sometimes a defender needs an equalizer. Policeman carry night sticks and tasers for this reason. The laws of the United States ban most weapons but one tool legal to carry anywhere is
Cum plerique incipit formas disciplina, focus principalis eorum est cognita ordine artium ad normam praescripto modo. Insuetum est incipienti vel etiam intermedio studenti nimium cogitare de iis quae agant cum artibus et quid defendunt.. Est ars directa vel
In July 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Films released the final Mr. Motus “B” film starring Peter Lorre as Inspector Kentaro Moto. Mr. Moto accipit vacation invenit Dominus. Moto accompanying the Queen of Sheba’s Crown from its discovery in an Egyptian archaeological site to a San Francisco museum. Mr. Moto suspects the arch criminal Metaxess, who authorities believed was dead, intendit
Legendarius Brus Lee scripsit articulum pro Black Belt emporium ante multos annos, qui efficientiam et efficaciam kata provocavit., quae disciplina uel ordo. Ex quo publicatione huius articuli, multa quidem et alia militaris artifices coepit ad provocare vel dubitare de necessitate formae exercitationem. Praesidium sibi addictos docet QUIA, te putes me
One of the best thing about the martial arts such as Taekwondo is the ability for fathers, mothers, filii, grandchildren and other family members to train together. You develop a mutual interest you cannot replicate by sitting in the stands watching your children play baseball, soccer, et cetera. Besides training with all three of my kids and my wife, who trained
Martial artists always created their arts to solve a problem. Judo was created when Dr. Jigoro Kano put his mind to solving the problem of how to train at 100 percent effort without getting someone injured by the crippling techniques of Japanese Ju-Jitsu. Helio Gracie created the basis for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu by trying to solve the problem of how a
Twentieth Century – Fox Film Company released the fourth Mr. Moto movie, Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938), on June 24, 1938. Lou Breslow and John Patrick set the film in Cambodia allowing Twentieth-Century Fox to use stock footage of the recently discovered ruins of Angkor Wat. The discovery of Angkor Wat captured the attention of the American public. Multi
Aprilis, 27, 2015, I had the honor of promoting my sons to Black Ranks in our system of self-defense. I promoted my oldest son Kenneth to 2nd Degree Black Rank. Kenneth was the first student I promoted to Black Rank on April 27, 2013. Over the past year and a half, Kenneth and I have been working on a
Once you reach the rank of black belt, you will find it difficult if not impossible to workout in class. Unless you have lots of black belts, who can take turns rotating, you will spend most of your time teaching. The window of training in class also closes the longer that you are a black belt. How do you continue