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Posts about martial arts concepts and history.
On May 7, 2016, my daughter Caity returned to Taekwondo competition for the first time in eight years. As her dad but also her coach, I tried to dissuade her from sparring until we had a few more months but she was adamant about sparring at the tournament. Caity likes forms but she always preferred sparring. Reluctantly, I agreed. Mé
When I earned my 1st Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo during December 2005 at Willow Martial Arts, I had already studied Judo for three months. My instructor, Master Pat Weseman, is a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Judo as well as a 6th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. With this background, a number of our self-defenses were Judo based, so I
A few weeks ago, my second foray into the martial arts came full circle. My daughter started studying Taekwondo again after more than five years away from the sport. It is actually Caity, who brought me back to martial arts in the summer of 2000. After my natural father passed away in July 1999, I went on a year-long fitness
When most students start forms training, their main focus is on learning the proper sequence of the techniques to perform the pattern in the prescribed manner. It is unusual for a beginning or even intermediate student to think too much about what they are doing with the techniques and what they are defending against. Is the technique straight forward or
As a taekwondo stylist, I spent my first few years of training trying to develop high kicks. I could throw crescent kicks head height pretty easily and even an occasional side kick. Don chuid is mó, my kicks tended to land on the body not the head. Mar sin féin, high kicks are still beautiful to behold and with several spectacular head
On St. Patrick’s Day, Márta 17, 1905, St. Louis sports fans were treated to a special match between local professional wrestler George Baptiste and traveling Japanese jujitsu practitioner Arata Suzuki. Baptiste delighted local fans by quickly defeating Suzuki in two straight falls. George Baptiste was a professional wrestler and all-around athlete, whose powerful swimming saved many St. Louisans from drowning
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.”
3 times over the last 150 bliana, martial artists created more modern versions of older martial arts. Unlike many prior systems, the innovators of these modern martial arts chose to share this information with outsiders and spread their arts around the world. Jigoro Kano’s dissemination of Judo is the best case study for how to develop and spread a martial
Le déanaí, Chuala mé phodchraoladh faoi aithint go soiléir cén fáth a dhéanann tú rud ar bith toisc go bhfuil sé tábhachtach a sheachadadh go héifeachtach do theachtaireacht. Thosaigh mé ar bhlag martial ealaíon do chúis is mó amháin agus cúpla cinn níos lú. Tá mé ag dul a chlúdach an chúis is mó lá atá inniu ann. I was not satisfied with most of the martial arts instruction related to self-defense. Tá tú
Tá Myth coitianta i healaíona comhraic go staidéir máistir do 40 bliana, Forbraíonn tuiscint beagnach superhuman de defense féin-, Cruthaíonn an córas foirfe agus casadh amach na glúnta de trodaithe unbeatable. Roimh an tóir a n-ealaíon martial measctha, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best. If you polled