Promoted to 4th Dan

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On Thursday, Январь 31, 2020, Grandmaster Pat Weseman promoted me to 4th Dan in Taekwondo at the Advanced Class. When I started classes with Grandmaster Weseman and her husband Art, I did not foresee reaching this milestone. I originally started taking classes with my nephew Jim in Spring 1995. After getting married in 1996, I stopped taking classes for several

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Black Belts Need Skill and Character

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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. <Промежуток bbox_x = "543" bbox_y = "1494" bbox_w = "56" bbox_h = "20" FSIZE = "14" fweight = "3" красный = "255" зеленый = "255" синий = "255" альфа = ", Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the

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Being a Dad and Coach

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Мая 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. Я

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Things Come Full Circle

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Несколько недель назад, 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

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Story of Square Barrow

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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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Create Something Great After 4 Годы

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Распространенный миф в боевых искусствах, что мастер исследования для 40 лет, развивается почти сверхчеловеческой понимание самообороны, создает совершенную систему и оказывается поколений бесконкурентным бойцов. До популярности смешанных единоборств, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best. If you polled

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Как я обнаружил джиу-джитсу

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Когда я был ребенком, рос в Санкт. Луис, только боевое искусство, которое я слышал только о том, каратэ. Тхэквондо считался корейский каратэ. Я не знал, о любом из борется искусства в этой точке. <Промежуток bbox_x = "543" bbox_y = "1494" bbox_w = "56" bbox_h = "20" FSIZE = "14" fweight = "3" красный = "255" зеленый = "255" синий = "255" альфа = ", KPLR канала 11 провели серию фильмов по субботам в течение месяца с участием мистер. Движение, played by Peter Lorre.

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How To Spread A Martial Art

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3 times over the last 150 лет, 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

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Что делает ранг черного пояса Mean?

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Я потратил много времени на изучение различных систем рангов.. Система рангов, похоже, является современной концепцией, разработанной доктором. Дзигаро Кано, педагог, кто хотел систему оценок для разделения учеников. В течение следующего столетия, во многих стилях была принята система рангов поясов, но единственной общей чертой было то, что системы поясов означали то, что решил создатель.

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The Day American Martial Arts Changed

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Ноября 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

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