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Posts about martial arts concepts and history.
Ngày 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. Tôi
Khi tôi giành được đai đen 1 Bằng tôi trong Taekwondo trong tháng mười hai 2005 tại Willow Võ thuật, Tôi đã nghiên cứu Judo cho ba tháng. huấn luyện viên của tôi, Master Pat Weseman, là một Belt Bằng Đen 2 trong Judo cũng như một Belt Bằng Đen 6 trong Taekwondo. Với nền tảng này, một số tự bảo vệ của chúng tôi được dựa Judo, vì vậy tôi
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. Đối với hầu hết các phần, my kicks tended to land on the body not the head. Tuy nhiên, high kicks are still beautiful to behold and with several spectacular head
On St. Patrick’s Day, Diễu hành 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 năm, 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
Gần đây, Tôi nghe một podcast về xác định rõ lý do tại sao bạn làm bất cứ điều gì bởi vì điều quan trọng là để có hiệu quả truyền đạt thông điệp của bạn. Tôi bắt đầu một blog võ thuật cho một lý do chính và một vài người ít. Tôi sẽ bao gồm các lý do chính hôm nay. I was not satisfied with most of the martial arts instruction related to self-defense. You
Một truyền thuyết phổ biến trong võ thuật là một nghiên cứu tổng thể 40 năm, phát triển một sự hiểu biết gần như siêu nhân tự vệ, tạo ra hệ thống hoàn hảo và hóa ra thế hệ máy bay chiến đấu cạnh tranh nhất. Trước khi sự phổ biến của võ thuật, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best. If you polled