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Posts about martial arts concepts and principles.
Als u wilt in staat zijn om jezelf te verdedigen, werk aan je conditionering De grootste techniek in de wereld is slechts zo effectief als je niet het uithoudingsvermogen om een aanval overleven hebben. Conditionering is een van de meest verwaarloosde aspecten van martial arts training. Cardio Conditioning – Remember the old saying, “Fatigue makes a coward of all of
After you earn your Green Rank, you will have completed your first year of training. Congratulations. On average, 75 percent of students who started with you have already quit training. Lucky for you, they will be much better targets for criminals. A humorous anecdote is told about two campers worried about a bear attack. One of the campers tells his
Het geheim van succes in de vechtsporten of elk gebied van het leven is het beheersen van de basis. Hoewel deze uitspraak klinkt intuïtieve, heel weinig mensen daadwerkelijk doen. Many practitioners find the basics “boring” and want to move onto more advanced moves. Het probleem met deze benadering is de nadruk op een 1 percent move over a 99 procent verhuizing. Taking Taekwondo
Despite its worldwide popularity and it’s rank as the most popular martial art in the United States, (TKD) is beginning to lose some of it’s luster due to its perceived lack of success in Mixed Martial Arts. (MMA) is the biggest thing to hit the martial arts world since Jigaro Kano decided to go to a colored and black belt system to denote rank within his school,
Orange Rank is the next step on the path to obtaining a 1st Degree Black Rank in the Zimmerman Self-Defense System. You will continue to learn new techniques and start to figure out what you are naturally good at and what you need to work on more. Orange and Green Ranks sometimes trouble students because the novelty of training in
Spike TV began to broadcast a show that would put mixed martial arts on the mainstream map. 16 fighters lived in a house and competed in a tournament to see which two fighters would win a six figure UFC contract. The Ultimate Fighter would change television and the UFC for good. At one point during the Finale, ten million households
Toen ik begon vechtsporten met een Shotokan karate les op onze lokale Junior College, de instructeur uitgedeeld een artikel voor iedereen om te lezen. Het artikel besloeg een studie met statistieken. De studie wees uit dat van elke 10,000 vechtsportenstudenten alleen 100 zou gaan om zwarte gordels te verdienen. Most beginning students quit after six months
Anderson Silva, widely recognized as the greatest mixed martial artist of all time, lost his rematch with Chris Wiedman for the UFC Middleweight Title on December 28, 2013. Wiedman had defeated Silva for the title on July 6, 2013. It was Silva’s first loss in seven years with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He was the middleweight champion for over 6
Georges St-Pierre has been the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) Welterweight Champion since 2007 and has been fighting for the title since 2005. While he is only 32 jaar, the grind of being world champion has caused him to relinquish the belt and step away from the sport for the time being. Some pundits have speculated that he is
A common myth in martial arts is that a master studies for 40 jaren, develops an almost superhuman understanding of self-defense, creates the perfect system and turns out generations of unbeatable fighters. Prior to the popularity of 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