Brazilian jujutsu thrives in America because of the dreams and aspirations of one person: Rorion Gracie.
He was the first man to transport the popular grappling system from its South American homeland to the martial arts Mecca of Southern California. He was the first man to take on all comers in America in style-vs.-style challenge matches designed to find out which art is most effective in ...
Author: Daniel Duarte
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The past three articles have explored the basic "push" (forward-directed force) of the internal martial arts. Readers have sent questions that will have to be faced in practice sooner or later, if we want to develop from the static to the dynamic using this type of force. One of the better letters, in that it combined many of the questions (plus asking a few more), came from Dr. L. S. Shu in Massa ...
Author: Mike Sigman
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For many years I have attempted to seek the answer to the question of whether the good little guy can beat the good big guy. The big guy has the advantage of weight and power whereas the little guy has the advan- tages of speed and agility. As skill levels increase the big guys get more agile and flexible and the little guys acquire more power and accuracy.
The advantage remains with the la ...
Author: Carl Burgess
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In the last two issues, we saw the same push viewed from two different perspectives. The first view, the one about the "almost-open hinges," was a description of the mechanical basis for the extraordinary strength involved in a correctly done "push." The second view (see last issue) was an approach to the same "push" as analyzed in the traditional Chinese sense… it is equally correct, just differi ...
Author: Mike Sigman
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The only way to acquire good familiarity with peng is to constantly play with it, finding its uses and limitations. As you progress, you'll begin to find that there are less limitations than you thought; almost any move can be made using peng motivation in conjunction with whole-body connection.
At first, in seeking to use the least muscular effort to propagate peng with movement, there are ...
Author: Mike Sigman
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