Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Posts about martial arts concepts and principles.
På torsdag, Januari 31, 2020, Stormästaren Pat Weseman befordrade mig till 4:e Dan i Taekwondo i Advanced Class. När jag började klassa hos stormästaren Weseman och hennes man Art, Jag förutsåg inte att nå denna milstolpe. Jag började ursprungligen gå kurser med min brorson Jim på våren 1995. Efter att ha gift sig i 1996, Jag slutade ta lektioner för flera
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. Emellertid, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
På 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, Jag kom överens. Jag
För några veckor sedan, 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, Jag gick på en helårskondition
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 myt i kampsporter är att en masterstudier för 40 år, utvecklar en nästan övermänsklig förståelse för självförsvar, skapar det perfekta systemet och visar sig generationer av oslagbara fighters. Innan 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
När jag var liten växte upp i St. Louis, den enda kampsport som jag hade hört talas om var Karate. Taekwondo ansågs koreanska Karate. Jag visste inte om någon av de brottas konst på den punkten. Emellertid, KPLR Kanal 11 ran a series of films on Saturdays for a month featuring Mr. Moto, 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
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
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