Martial Arts

Martial arts today have changed from traditional martial arts to today’s mixed martial arts.

Martial arts are great for overall conditioning not to mention the discipline you will build.

But a lot of martial artists are fat and out of shape and this is sad, it didn’t used to be that way.

Years ago martial artist’s were strong, fast and hard, not weak, slow and soft. Not to long ago I visited a traditional karate school that I thought about joining, and I was really disappointed at what I had seen.

If you have a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, then you have a wonderfully gifted child. The ADHD child is spontaneous, creative and can hyper focus on a task they find interesting.

Conversely, this same child is a challenge to parents because they can often be aggressive, hyper, distractible and impulsive. The world views these children as “hard to handle” which can permanently harm self-esteem.

All children are impulsive, inattentive and easily distracted from time to time, but the ADHD child lives with these attributes frequently. You can aid your ADHD child by showing her how these character traits are an advantage, not a disadvantage.

As a kid involved in Judo & later stage in Taichi, push-hands & Taichi sword, I still recollect the times when after the sparring sessions I used to be swollen with pride with the number of bruises or types of pain which I had to endure, but, it is inconceivable at my present age of 40. You may already know that judo is a martial art originally created in Japan. What separates judo from other martial arts like karate or tae-kwon-do, kick boxing however, the thing is that judo is designed specifically with sport competition in mind. Whereas sparring in other martial arts generally requires use of pads and other protective equipment or light contact (pulling of punches or kicks), judo techniques can be performed at full speed and full force while maintaining safety. Judo is great because it teaches a strong ethos of self-defense, tradition, and respect. Nonetheless the rules of judo provide for strangulation techniques in which the blood supply to the brain is blocked by stress on the carotid arteries; such techniques create anoxia and possible coma if the wounded fails to submit.