The recent NACMAF International Tournament in Baltimore, MD was of very high caliber, and full-contact fighting was at a high level. Following this event, I spoke with many of the spectators. Response was varied. Many people I spoke to were impressed with the fighting spirit and enthusiasm the fighters portrayed.
I was asked about the preparations undertaken by the fighters for this event. ...
Author: Sifu Tai Yim
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Just as a coin cannot have just one side, so can peng, the concealed core strength, not function without its obverse, connection. Peng is the motive power of Opening. Connection is the controlling power of Closing and is the slight extensive connection which allows the waist to actually control the hands.
The specialized motion of the internal martial arts which we are investigating in thes ...
Author: Mike Sigman
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I asked a simple question at the last seminar:
"How much has everyone improved in the year since we last got together?"
I've practiced the same basics everyday for decades.
Everyday Rain or shine. Summer, winter, spring and fall. Over and over and over.............................................
And I'm never satisfied. I'm not fast enough, I don't hit hard enough, my b ...
Author: Carl Cestari
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As law-enforcement agencies across the nation search for the ultimate defensive-tactics program, their techniques and training methods are undergoing a metamorphosis that parallels the evolution of the martial arts. Trainers have begun focusing on the separate elements that make up personal combat—in large part because of the career-threatening injuries sustained by officers involved in confrontat ...
Author: Jeff Clancy
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Before Tai Chi there were many other styles of Wushu or martial arts. Tai Chi was developed approximately 100 years before the gun. When guns became popular Tai Chi began to change its emphasis. As it was no longer needed for self-defence, it began to evolve into a sport. However some people felt that Tai Chi was too good a Martial Art to lose, and kept this side of it going. In the last century, ...
Author: Liu Yong
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