Category: Arti Marziali

A question I’m often asked during classes and seminars is “Can I become invincible by learning self-defense?” The short answer is “Non” but they are asking the wrong questions. Better questions would be: “What can I do to make myself a less desirable target?” “How can I get in better shape to successfully repel an attack?” “What techniques should

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Il leggendario Bruce Lee scrisse molti anni fa un articolo per la rivista Black Belt in cui metteva in discussione l'efficienza e l'efficacia dei kata, forme o formazione motivo. Sin dalla pubblicazione di questo articolo, molti altri artisti marziali hanno cominciato a sfidare o mettere in discussione la necessità di moduli di formazione. Poiché mi sono dedicata all'insegnamento autodifesa, penseresti che io

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One of the best thing about the martial arts such as Taekwondo is the ability for fathers, mothers, bambini, 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, eccetera. Besides training with all three of my kids and my wife, who trained

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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

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In the distant past, one of the new holders of a teacher’s certificate in a traditional martial art brought a wheel barrow with round wheels for approval to the head of the style and his top two instructors. Previously, the wheel barrow had square tires and was referred to as a square barrow. The student waited with expectation as the

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Una volta raggiunto il grado di cintura nera, lo troverete difficile se non impossibile da allenamento in classe. A meno che non hai un sacco di cinture nere, chi può fare i turni di rotazione, vi permetterà di trascorrere la maggior parte del tempo di insegnamento. The window of training in class also closes the longer that you are a black belt. How do you continue

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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. Per la maggior parte, my kicks tended to land on the body not the head. Tuttavia, high kicks are still beautiful to behold and with several spectacular head

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We always taught students not to punch to the head during self-defense training. Ancora, we did teach students to punch to head height on pads, when teaching striking. After watching some of mixed martial arts legend Bas Rutten’s fights from Pancrase, it struck me what we were doing wrong. Pancrase banned closed fists to the head. Rutten, an accomplished muay

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