The W.T.F. (AKA wussy tae kwon do federation) is what gives TKD a bad name.
I trained in ITF style for about 6 years.......they are not restricted to little wussy punches and kicks to pre- ...
What?
Uh; ok.
Indeed.
Other than that's not the only criteria; 'insignificant' is only in context. The extreme is that a fuller on a 1' blade wouldn't change it much ...
... more geared toward traditional stuff...so I like to play around a little on my own.
I little back ground: 16 yr., karate for 11 years...big weapons guy (nunchuke and ...
I have NO clue what-so-ever of what the 'ninja way' of doing it is. Did they even use smoke that way?
However, salmiac (ammonium chloride, NH4Cl) when burnt creates LOADS of smoke. I have ...
I have heard of Dragon, Snake, Crane, Panther, Tiger (the 5 Shaolin animals), Praying Mantis, White Crane, (4 or 5 other Crane styles, too,) Monkey (a couple of styles), Tiger-Crane, and Eagle Claw, ...
... #039;s gym in San Jose. Mostly basic stuff, geared toward stand-up fighters looking to pick up some ground fighting tricks. At the end ...
Why is it always one art against another? Maybe, for example, 1-on-1 an equally ranked BJJ guy against an Aikidoka, the BJJ guy would overpower..... I don't know, I haven't heard of it ...
No it says Simplified 'Taijiquan' not Combined. and I am confusing the two.
yes I am confusing them. the 24 step is based on Yang Style (85 or 108 depending on how you count) and so is ...
Vitor looked the best I've seen him, totally confident, I think he was so young before he would get hyper.This time he would enter with a straight left(a fast hard, untellegraphed one as he can ...
... better than you in CMC Taiji? Maybe if you go challenge Ben Lo to push hands and wrestle him to the ground, that will mean that he wasted all those years... it only took you a couple of ...
No one would find it unusual that a group practice was taoist, or muslim, or black, or 'family only', or jewish, or female or mormon. They have commonality of certain scenarios or training ...
You misunderstood what I meant. You have a Black Belt in TKD, this is fine. However, in Jujitsu, you go throwing head level spinning kicks and argue that the way you throw a back kick is better tehn ...
... ' a mish mash style which supposedly encompasses every aspect of combat from long range to the ground. Only trouble is, it doesn't really read as a master list. Southern and northern gung ...
Hi Chas,
Hope you don't mind a few more questions. All the b.s. you and Mr. Gartin are confronted with causes me to look deeper into the maybe whys. Your explanation about how Mr. Gartin looks ...
Every year, I throw out the Lenten Challenge to my martial arts buddies. It has nothing to do with Christianity or religion. We are simply using this time as a convenient reminder to rededicate ...
I am very pleased with a $19.95 folder I just got from AG Russell ( http://www.agrussell.com/ka-bar/ka4064.html ). It is a Bob Dozier design, one of three folder designs that all have the same handle ...
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting with the goal of gaining a dominant position and using joint-locks and choke holds to ...
You could always try something like Capoeira - a Brazilian martial art (one of the few (only one ?) surviving western ones).
It's very different from the rigid stances of Karate etc. and ' ...
The precise origins of panantukan are currently unknown and the throughout the Philippine Islands there is tremendous diversity in technique and name. What is known is that the Filipino art of boxing ...