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Posts about martial arts concepts and principles.
I was watching the UFC Fight Night prelims on Facebook Saturday night. The fights all ended in before time expired. One ended in the third round, one in the second round and three in the first round. One of the things that I notice was that none of the fighters in the first four fights were attacking from guard. They
Da jeg var barn vokser op i St. Louis, den eneste kampkunst, jeg havde hørt om var Karate. Taekwondo blev anset Korean Karate. Jeg vidste ikke, om nogen af de kæmper kunst på det tidspunkt. Men, KPLR Channel 11 ran a series of films on Saturdays for a month featuring Mr. Motion, 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
Why do traditional martial artists continue to despise the lessons of mixed martial arts? I am amazed that twenty years after Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 1, nogle traditionelle kampsport føler stadig, at de ikke har noget at lære af MMA. One of the Taekwondo tournaments, where I used to referee, has a submission grappling division. When I had a break, Jeg
Jeg har brugt meget tid på at studere forskellige rangsystemer. Rangsystemet ser ud til at være et moderne koncept startet af Dr.. Jigaro Kano, en underviser, der ønskede et klassificeringssystem for at adskille studerende. I løbet af det næste århundrede, adskillige stilarter adopterede bælterangsystemet, men det eneste fællestræk var, at bæltesystemerne betød, hvad skaberen besluttede
One of the things that always impressed me about the Gracies is how they were able to turn out generation after generation of top-notch instructors. After reading a number of articles about their original belt system, etc., I started to adapt some of their methods with our own students. Once the student reaches Green Belt, we allow them to start
While watching the Facebook Prelims for UFC 161, I observed a trend that happens often in mixed martial arts competition. One of the competitors would get a dominant position but would sacrifice it to chase a submission. He caught the other competitor in close to ten submissions but the other man escaped all ten and one a close split decision.
On April 27, 2013, on what would have been his grandfather and namesake’s 71st birthday, Ken “Trey” Zimmerman III became the first black belt in the Zimmerman Self-Defense System under his father Ken Zimmerman Jr. “Trey” began studying martial arts shortly before his fifth birthday. “Trey” has trained in Taekwondo, Judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Gojo Shroei Weapons System. His goals
Theodore Roosevelt served as the twenty-sixth President of the United States from 1901 til 1909. TR is famous for the “Strenuous Life”. He practiced boxing and wrestling through his twenties and thirties. What is not as widely known is that he practiced Judo around 1904, when he was in his mid-40s. Roosevelt would eventually earn a brown belt in Judo. Yoshiaki
Et par år siden, I decided to stay at the rank of brown belt in Judo for a while. As a black belt in Taekwondo, I always assume that you keep going until you reach black belt in the art you are practicing. Men, I began to change my mind about continuously trying to obtain a black belt