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Posts about martial arts concepts and principles.
På torsdag, Januar 31, 2020, Stormester Pat Weseman forfremmede mig til 4. Dan i Taekwondo i Advanced Class. Da jeg startede undervisning hos stormester Weseman og hendes mand Art, Jeg havde ikke forudset at nå denne milepæl. Jeg begyndte oprindeligt at tage klasser med min nevø Jim i foråret 1995. Efter at være blevet gift i 1996, Jeg holdt op med at tage undervisning i flere
At our fantasy football draft this year, one of the other owners asked me who I thought was the best mixed martial artist of all time. I told him that based on skill, the greatest mixed martial artist of all time was Jon “Bones” Jones. Men, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
Den maj 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. Jeg
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, Jeg gik på et års fitness
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
En fælles myte i kampsport er, at en master-studier for 40 år, udvikler en næsten overmenneskelig forståelse af selvforsvar, skaber den perfekte system, og viser sig generationer af de bedste kæmpere. Forud for den popularitet blandet kampsport, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best. If you polled
Da jeg var barn vokser op i St. Louis, den eneste kampkunst, jeg havde hørt om var Karate. Taekwondo blev anset Korean Karate. Jeg vidste ikke, om nogen af de kæmper kunst på det tidspunkt. Men, KPLR Channel 11 ran a series of films on Saturdays for a month featuring Mr. Motion, played by Peter Lorre.
3 times over the last 150 år, 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
Jeg har brugt meget tid på at studere forskellige rangsystemer. Rangsystemet ser ud til at være et moderne koncept startet af Dr.. Jigaro Kano, en underviser, der ønskede et klassificeringssystem for at adskille studerende. I løbet af det næste århundrede, adskillige stilarter adopterede bælterangsystemet, men det eneste fællestræk var, at bæltesystemerne betød, hvad skaberen besluttede
På November 12, 1993 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado, a fourth degree black belt in the little known art of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (commonly called Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in the United States) cut through an eight man style versus style martial arts tournament. Royce Gracie would turn the martial arts world on its head. After his walk through the