Showing posts with label martial arts styles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label martial arts styles. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Sumo wrestling in Mongolia

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Interesting article on the BBC website about sumo in Mongolia and the training that these women undergo for their martial art. " Sumo w...
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Thursday, 20 May 2010

Gain a degree in judo!

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OK, so you're a martial arts enthusiast but all that's on offer at University are boring subjects like History or Astro-physics or B...
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Contact Improvisation

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In response to Cat's amazing post on dance and martial arts; movement and contact improvisation I'd like to share a video: It's...
Friday, 12 March 2010

Kirishima Kazuhiro: sumo wrestler in action

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Here is a great video of Kirishima in action. He's the smaller, muscular wrestler. The information on this Youtube video says that the m...
Sunday, 28 February 2010

Sword Play

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Two contrasting styles of fencing (with different weapons). First the two handed sword, showing techniques from Lichtenauer's style. Int...
Thursday, 11 February 2010

Cafu Santos headbut knockout

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So I was watching this video looking at the poor guy in the blue shorts (Gledson) getting belted by Santos and at just under 1minute in it l...
Sunday, 7 February 2010

Scots pensioner awarded Judo's highest rank

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Well he may be a pensioner but he looks as hard as nails! Let's hope we're all training long into our later years... "A Scottis...
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Thursday, 4 February 2010

European Canne de Combat Championships: Cambridge, September 2010

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Was checking out Cambridge Academy of Martial Arts ' website and noticed an announcement to the effect that they will be hosting the Eur...
Wednesday, 27 January 2010

The Martial Arts Show, Birmingham, NEC, May 22nd-23rd

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So it's that time of year again...more martial arts shows. This time it's at the NEC which means it's gonna be bigger (and bette...
Friday, 11 December 2009

Book review: The Way of the Warrior

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This is a hardback, colourful almanac of descriptions of the world's martial arts but is it any good? There are many entries in the book...
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Friday, 4 December 2009

Last days fencing and ki ken tai

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The fencing course culminates with a competition with the rest of the club. This includes fun atmosphere and prize giving so I was fairly r...
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Monday, 30 November 2009

2nd Kyu Grading Shorinji Kempo

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Grading was a little nerve wracking as sensei Jee graded a group of 11 kenshi- this meant extreme scrutiny by him with nowhere to hide. Of c...
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Thursday, 26 November 2009

Sparring

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When I started studying martial arts twenty years ago, I was training in Goya Ra Ru (now Tetsudo ). This is a pseudo Tibetan, very modern ma...
Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Fist Foot Way

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Anyone seen this martial arts film? Looks like it's funny. Maybe a bit close to the bone in some of the aspects, but funny!
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Fencing debut

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I can't say I am unbiased about my first fencing lesson: I was *thoroughly* looking forward to it. I've wanted to taste what fencing...
Thursday, 17 September 2009

Boxing class at MMA gym Cambridge

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I stopped off at the Pro-am fight centre this week: they have an extensive gym as well as a full size cage and mat area with plenty of hang...
Friday, 4 September 2009

Sine wave in forms/hyung/poomse

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I'm currently reading a fascinating book by Alex Gillis regarding the history of Tae Kwon Do which is called 'A Killing Art-The unto...
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Friday, 28 August 2009

Rex Kwon Do

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Ok, ok....last in the series of funnies! "Do you think anyone wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I'm wearing these bad boys!...
Wednesday, 26 August 2009

How martial artists let their hair down...

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Creepy Ninja Dance Moves
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Saturday, 1 August 2009

Epee and foil

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Introduction clip regarding the difference between epee and foil fencing: I wasn't impressed with the fencing videos I found: there were...
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