...exactly why tai chi is discussed so much around here. No one needs to debate the way a punch is thrown in karate....but there is still a lot to be sorted out about Tai chi and how it works. There are ...
Unless Oyama totally ditched his dogmatic adherence to traditional karate, I feel pretty certain that any number of the UFC guys would knock him out in less than 10 seconds...Mark Kerr, Frank or Ken S...
...ern Mantis for about a month and I do some training outside of this with 2 friends, one who does Shotokan Karate (fairly sure it's that) and has trained for about 4 years, and another who's ...
...bout ones ability to protect oneslef. It is not meant to be a martial art in the same sense as Kung-fu or Karate. It is a complex self defense system. For example even if one receives a punch or kick ...
Perhaps you should look into Shotokan Karate.
I can't think of any Shotokan techniques that would be hard on the joints. Traditional Shotokan doesn't place much emphasis on sparring, eit...
I personally started when I was about 16 or 17, having never heard of martial arts or karate or Bruce Lee or anything. You can see some of that story here: http://www.mokurendojo.com/2007/01/care-and...
...by your self I recommend getting a bokken (wooden training sword) and if you can find a kobudo class or a karate/martial arts teacher to teach you how to use one and you get profitent then I would che...
...hem from time to time.
Any more pearls of wisdom you're willing to share?
Zlmndra 5th Kyu, Karate...
'Another star was Jean Frenette, a karate star. He told how he once saw Jean Claude Van Damme prepare for a show and how his assistans filled his kicking pads with powder like hay, which during t...
Who is good at inside fighting and who at outside fighting?
1. Wing Chun 2. Taekwondo 3. Karate 4. Filipino Martial Art 5. Indonesia Martial Art 6. American Boxing 7. ...
I think FMA is the be...
I took Hapkido for about six months, it was a good tie in to the Chinese karate that I am taking.
To me Hapkido seemed like it would work much better on the street. With the different techniques w...
...orm, and tests in any of the arts are demonstrations of some basic techniques, some kata, (some bunkai in Karate), and some randori in judo, jujutsu, and aikido.
Look at my description of techniqu...
After watching another student test for his BB in karate today, I wondered if there wasn't another test especially designed for females? I particularly thought of the Sanchin kata & how it ma...
...really know about Sammo's martial art background, but Jackie Chan picked up other martial arts (like Karate, Aikido,Hapkido, Tae Kwon Do, Wing Chun) after he left the opera school....
...rtial arts experience i have heard of agents getting the shit knocked out of them that were blackbelts in karate... What is more of a street fighting scenario martial art???...
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...tyle of Kenpo I was taking also had a hybrid of different martial arts. My style of Kenpo has elements of Karate, Kung Fu, Wing Chun/maybe Tiger Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, and I have definately seen some s...
True, if a martial art works in one age, it should work in another (but bear in mind that you can't karate-chop a Smith & Wesson.) And tai chi certainly works.
Specifically, I study tai c...
Aikido
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Hi, I practice Shotokan Karate for 7 years now. Last year I had a few Aikido lessons, and I would really like to practice it regulary, unfortunately, I have no avaialable time now
One of the thi...
...ting with the palm-heel is a very effective alternate to the fist. The open hand can also strike with the karate knife-hand techniques, and there are many Chinese variants such as willow-leaf palm. Th...
... older grappling techniques found in kung fu. I wonder if this is a coincidence considering the origin of karate.
In any case, your samurai/monk comparison is not very true. WC may have origins in...
I remember reading a good many years back an article in Inside Karate an article about just such mistranslations. The author, a fellow named Nakamichi, discovered a guy from Washington State who claim...
...ting was the way he would tense his arms at the beginning of a punch, and then let go; maybe this was how Karate and the like was intended to be performed.
Also, they showed a style called 'S...
...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 bokken) I can do a kip up, 540 kick, 360 c...
ESKRIMA SERRADA Class at Ernie Reyes' West Coast Karate-Taekwondo corner of San Tomas Expressway & El Camino Real, in Santa Clara, California [south of San Francisco].
Curriculum: Serrada...
...g, kick-boxing or some similar style of art. The movement in those styles is very fluid compared to, say, karate/TKD's more solid stances, which don't combine so well with Aikido's natu...
... inside the dojo. I didn't think it would look very good to be using Tai Chi moves in Okinawan Kempo Karate class anyway.
But that is something only your teacher and your own observations abo...
...more injury on the opponent than using fists.(i mean 'palm', and not the chopping techniques in karate)
I personally dun agree with it at all. I think it is better to hit person using th...
... are typical for the art, what you learn - what style there are
Some martial arts that I know of are: karate, teakwondo, judo, jiu-jitsu, aikide, kung-fu. These terms are used to indicate a whole ...
...heral to mainstream martial arts schools. Kung fu often involves weapons, as well as Kendo, some Goju ryu karate, etc.
You mean just being fat? No, it won't prevent you from successfully doin...
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