For a Taekwdondo Black Belt, or a Kung Fu Black Belt or some other type of martial artist, the first seconds of an attempted mugging are not overwhelming. They don’t experience the shortness of breath, the heartstopping fear, or the desire to run. Instead, other things happen.
Posts under ‘Aikido’
About Aikido, How To Make The Techniques More Street Ready
When I hear the uninformed speak about Aikido, it is generally a description of how the aikido techniques are graceful, or how they don’t work. This becomes the old disagreement, do you want form or function? This can further be understood as, do you want force or flow?
To Kung Fu Fight Increases Intelligence, To Karate Fight Causes People To Be Smarter!
Call it a Kung Fu fight, call it a karate fight, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that this type of martial arts fighting is going to raise your intelligence. That’s right, stepping onto the mat and going man to man is actually going to result in higher intelligence.
Aikido Arts, Brute Force, and Destruction
I had just signed up for a course in a school teaching the Aikido Arts, and I was meeting the various people in the aikido dojo. There was one guy, a little ragged in appearance, yet I liked him. I was a little shocked, one day, when he started ex[pounding upon the use of the staff.
Learn Zombie Kung Fu Now and Kill the Living!
I bet that if I started a zombie kung fu martial arts school I would get fabulously rich. I could teach all the secret martial arts techniques that the living dead use to rip the beating and oh, so juicy heart out of some fool who can’t run very fast. I could teach people the secret monster karate techniques that…maybe I should tell you what this article is about?
Baguazhang Kung Fu Energy Flux…How to Align It
Baguazhang Kung Fu is one of those exotic martial arts that stimulates the imagination. One hears incredible stories of what the old Baguazhang masters could do, and they want to do them, too. The sad truth, however, is that most Baguazhang schools are not training in the correct manner.
Morihei Ueshiba and the Five Evolutions of the Art of Aikido
The Art of Aikido was discovered and given to the world by Morihei Ueshiba. O Sensei (great teacher), as he is called was not an imposing physical figure in the beginning. He was sickly when he was a youngster, and somewhat flakey in his training efforts.
Aikido Introduction
Aikido is a Japanese martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba aka ‘O Sensei’ or ‘Great Teacher’. The martial art that had the most influence on Aikido is Daito-Ryu Aikijujutsu. Aikido consists mainly of joint locks and throws. Punching and kicking are taught not as the main technique but to compliment the technique. It is used as a distraction, to imbalance and weaken the attacker. Anyone can punch or kick, it takes skill to be able to apply techniques. Most martial arts consist mostly of punches and kicks, that not only hurts the attacker but that also hurts the practitioner. Aikido practitioners are taught ways to blend and redirect the opponents’ aggressive energy away from themselves and redirect it towards the aggressor. The attacker gets thrown resulting in minimal hurt to him and no hurt to the Aikido practitioner. Aikido is a compassionate and peace-loving, gentle yet effective martial arts that aims to protect not only the Aikido practitioner but even the attacker. In fact, Aikido is too gentle until it gets criticized for being ineffective and not practical in a real-life situation. My response to that is that the techniques people see in the dojo (Training hall) or in videos are just for training and practising with your fellow dojomates so too much force cannot be used. A lot of force and strength is controlled to avoid causing injury to each other whereas in a real-life situation, there is no need to control any force or strength.
The Peaceful Martial Art Of Aikido
The topic of oriental Martial Arts is one of the most important gifts of Asia to the world. Who will not bear in mind that Bruce Lee was first and principally a martial arts sports person before becoming a movie star?
Learn Martial Arts by Flipping the Grid
There are many methods one can use to learn martial arts, to learn Kung Fu or Karate, or to learn any martial art. Unfortunately, most of these methods have limited workability. There is one method, however, that can be used in any art, and improves the learning curve drastically.
Tony Jaa Say He Will Commit Suicide, then Becomes a Monk!
You’ve been living in the backwoods if you don’t know who Tony Jaa is. The star of Ong Bak and other film offerings, he is faster than Bruce Lee, more athletic than Jackie Chan, and looks to have a long career in the movies in front of him. What most people don’t know is that he once threatened to commit suicide.
Taking a Sword Away from an Attacker with a Martial Arts Technique
I have said that the Eight Catchers are the epitome of the Martial Arts. And, I have said that you should study extensive fighting disciplines, Karate, Tai Chi Chuan, Shaolin, whatever, before you begin your minimum of two years of practice on solely the Catchers. That said, here is a description of the Sword Catcher, which is an Aikido based technique, and images of it can be found in Monster Martial Arts newsletter X-5.
The Four Major Tai Chi Chuan Styles and the Men Who Founded Them
The Lineage of the various Tai Chi Chuan styles is sometime murky, sometimes easily seen. What is of high interest, however, is the way Tai Chi Chuan is altered by each generation of students. One would think that the principles would be true, and nothing should ever change, but change is the only constant in this world.