Staraí Spóirt agus Ealaíontóir Comhraic
Posts about martial arts concepts and principles.
Ar Déardaoin, Eanáir 31, 2020, Thug an Grandmaster Pat Weseman ardú céime dom go dtí an 4ú Dan i Taekwondo ag an Ardrang. Nuair a thosaigh mé ar ranganna le Grandmaster Weseman agus a fear céile Art, Ní raibh a thuar agam go mbainfí amach an chloch mhíle seo. Thosaigh mé ar dtús ag cur ranganna le mo nia Jim san Earrach 1995. Tar éis pósadh i 1996, Stop mé ag glacadh ranganna le haghaidh roinnt
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. Mar sin féin, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
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
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
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
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
Nuair a bhí mé a kid ag fás aníos i St. Louis, an ealaín martial amháin go raibh chuala mé a bhí faoi Karate. Measadh go raibh Taekwondo Cóiréis Karate. Ní raibh a fhios agam faoi aon cheann de na healaíona grappling ag an bpointe sin. Mar sin féin, KPLR Channel 11 ran a series of films on Saturdays for a month featuring Mr. Moto, played by Peter Lorre.
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
I have spent a lot of time studying different rank systems. The rank system seems to be a modern concept started by Dr. Jigaro Kano, an educator, who wanted a system of grading to separate students. Over the next century, numerous styles adopted the belt rank system but the only commonality was the belt systems meant what the creator decided
Ar Samhain 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