Friday, February 19th, 2010 at
3:08 pm
Violence is not the goal or aim of any form of martial art. The intent of martial arts is, and has always been, to train, educate, and improve the mental health and physical well-being of the participant. It has always held true that some have used the martial arts against people in violent acts, but this is clearly against the majority of their original intents.
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at
11:24 am
Brazilian jiu-jitsu and its martial art techniques have their roots in Japanese judo. The beginning of their history can be found in a martial arts group called Kodokan. The decision of this group to send out their followers to the rest of the world to share their teachings would have a major impact on the future of mixed martial arts tournaments. In the beginning of the twentieth century, one of these followers reached Brazil and began spreading the knowledge that he had obtained through years of training. An important meeting between this man, Mitsuyo Maeda, and a Brazilian man would change the course of fighting history.
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009 at
6:10 am
Wouldn’t you love to have all those great looking tournament plaques you see on display at your school or on your own shelves? Now you can!. Just pick the number of trophies you want and then sign up for that many competitions! So, we got a little ahead of ourselves because you might be asking yourself. How do you get there? To answer this question only takes one word: sparring. You cannot walk on the tourney mat without a great deal of sparring under your belt and hope to walk away with a trophy or medal. You need experience and skill and that is why sparring training is a must. Or, more accurately, proper sparring is a must.
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at
9:07 pm
To watch the Mixed Martial Arts fighters one would believe that there is only one way to take an opponent down, and that is by rushing in low, grabbing the legs, and dumping them. Yes, this is the time honored way of doing things, but there are other methods that can be quite interesting. Truth, if you are fighting Some John Doe on the street, who has not concentrated on learning the attack and defense of that particular maneuver, there are lots of different ways of taking people down.
Actually, there are so many ways to take a person down it is ridiculous, and all are combat friendly. We can, however,organize the takedowns, as I have done in my Forty Monkeys Course, but there is a concept which make taking a person down extremely easy. This concept depends upon inserting intention into the person’s space.
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Friday, August 28th, 2009 at
7:46 am
by Al Case
When people watch Mixed Martial Arts, they watch grown men being twisted into mat slapping pretzels, and they see all the big knock outs. This is truly amazing and potent martial arts, but they are missing the boat. One of those little rules they have in MMA that not many people pay attention to, you see, is No Small Joint Manipulation.
Now what the heck could be so frightening about small joint manipulations that the monsters of the MMA, with all their face smashing punches and limb wrenching prowess, could be afraid of them? I mean, couldn’t you just beat the crap out of somebody who tries this Small Joint Manipulation thing? Shouldn’t it be easy to handle somebody who is only attacking, like, your little finger?
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