Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art practiced by people for several reasons. Some do it to keep fit; some practice it for self-defense and some get trained to participate in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. The Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments are held worldwide and are extremely popular. In Brazilian Jiu-jitsu tournaments, points are awarded to the competitors who get a dominant position over their opponents clearly without stalling.In Brazilian...more
Author: Vikram KumarMartial arts are one of the oldest forms of athletics known to human culture. The various styles of martial arts taught today have been handed down through centuries because they serve many valuable purposes. Today people study martial arts to get in shape, learn more about other cultures and make new friends. Choosing among the thousands of martial arts available today can be a confusing challenge for a beginning. A good...more
MMA gladiators circling the eight sided ring, searching for the shot, and, WHAM, somebody is knocked out. The price of the ticket, the roaring crowd, they are all worth it if you can see a good knock out. What most people don't realize is that a good knock out, with a little practice, is actually easy to do.Four decades ago, in Kang Duk Won Korean Karate my instructor told me that A tight fist is a heavy fist. Man, that was just what the doctor ordered! Just curl the fingers into iron bands, tie them together with a thick thumb, and, zingo bingo, you have yourself a board breaking fist.The trick, of course, is to be totally relaxed before, and to be totally empty after. This is the idea of focus, and if you understand it you can knock an opponent all the way out. Hard to do it the way they put fists in gloves before a fight, but there it is.Think about it like this, a radar station is looking for planes, it is looking, and what would happen if the skies all filled up with static? The radar operator would be blind, he wouldn't be able to see the planes for the static. So when you relax, and make your fist loose, you are trying to get rid of the static, make it so you can perceive...more
Author: Vikram KumarMartial arts are one of humankind's oldest types of sport. Thanks to the wonders of our global age, it's possible to choose among fighting styles that originate from every part of the world. That's why a martial arts guide can be extremely helpful to a beginner in deciding which style to pursue. Experts now estimate there are...more
Author: Julius ParkMixed Martial Arts is a relatively new sport that combines every type of martial arts imaginable. The combination of elements, such as Karate, Judo, Tae Kwan Do, boxing and wrestling, create a hybrid that is described as full-contact hand-to-hand combat. The sport of mixed martial arts started in the early 1990s under the brand...more
Author: Al CaseOne of the most important things you can have, if you want to be a good fighter, inside the ring or out, is the gunfighter mentality. The best fighters, like Chuck Lidells and Anderson Silva, have this intuitively in their personality. The losers don't. Interestingly enough, the Gunfighter Mentality used to be central to learning the classical martial arts. I remember training back in the sixties, and everything we did was pointed towards building this ability. While there were many factors involved in the death of the Gunfighter Mentality in training, people like Bruce Lee probably drove home the spike. Bruce added the circling strategy of boxing to kumite in the martial arts. The Gunfighter Mentality depends on creating an inner stillness, being set like a black mamba, and here was this fellow acting like Mohammad Ali, circling and jabbing and destroying the mindset of the Gunfighter. Now Bruce Lee would have won most any fight anyway, but everybody wanted to fight like he did, and they gave up the deadly zen stillness of the Gunfighter when they did so. Now stillness is the heart of true fighting, when it comes to the martial arts, and there are several good...more
(1888PressRelease) The MMA Conditioning Association adds the science to the knockout and the submission.Orange County, California Mixed Martial Arts (also known as MMA) has become the fastest growing sport in the world. By definition, mixed martial...more
The concepts of yang to yin, hard to soft, Shaolin to Wudan, striking to grappling have been with us a long time. Many people have compared the argument to the yin yang turning over and over. In the end, however, there is no contest between the two...more
Use this established procedure to learn martial arts training and your results will improve significantly. You may be training at a school that provides instruction without actual sparring or allowing students to practice techniques with a heavy bag,...more
My recommendation is that a combination of learning street based self defense with martial arts styles that originate in different societies and countries could really make your fighting techniques unique. Irregardless of what body shape you have,...more
During this article I will share with you essentially basic self defense techniques that will gain you the necessary skills to survive dangerous situations and protect yourself from attackers, here's the fundamentals you need to know in order to...more
Being able to effectively defend yourself can be the difference between life and death when it comes to a street fight. I'm going to share some very effective self defense destruction advise with you! If you happen to find yourself in the middle of a...more