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Posts about martial arts concepts and principles.
On Thursday, Januar 31, 2020, Stormester Pat Weseman forfremmet meg til 4. Dan i Taekwondo i Advanced Class. Da jeg begynte på kurs hos stormester Weseman og mannen hennes Art, Jeg forutså ikke å nå denne milepælen. Jeg begynte opprinnelig å ta kurs med nevøen min Jim om våren 1995. Etter å ha giftet seg i 1996, Jeg sluttet å ta kurs for 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. However, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
Mai 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 gikk på et års trening
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 vanlig myte i kampsport er at en masterstudier for 40 år, utvikler en nesten overmenneskelig forståelse for selvforsvar, skaper det perfekte systemet og slår ut generasjoner av enestående jagerfly. Før populariteten av mixed martial arts, 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 et barn vokser opp i St. Louis, den eneste kampsport som jeg hadde hørt om var Karate. Taekwondo ble ansett koreansk Karate. Jeg visste ikke om noen av de grappling kunst på det punktet. However, KPLR Channel 11 ran a series of films on Saturdays for a month featuring Mr. Moto, played by Peter Lorre.
3 ganger over den siste 150 år, kampsportutøvere skapte mer moderne versjoner av eldre kampsport. I motsetning til mange tidligere systemer, innovatørene av disse moderne kampsportene valgte å dele denne informasjonen med utenforstående og spre kunsten sin rundt i verden. Jigoro Kanos formidling av judo er den beste case-studien for hvordan man kan utvikle og spre en kampsport
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
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