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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The Kung Fu style of Wing Tzun has forms within its curriculum. A form is a choreographed set of specific techniques done in a sequence. These forms have been created for very specific and important reasons by the founders of the system. The first form of Wing Tzun is called “Sil Lin Tao” which translates to, little first practice. This form has hidden secrets within its sequence of movements, and ...
Author: Vivian Wong Bourren
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I had been feeling ill for four years when, in 1996, I was finally given a diagnosis of
ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis). This is a chronic condition with a long list of
symptoms Ö so many symptoms, in fact, that you feel people will think you're a
hypochondriac if you list even a fraction of them! I'll run that risk here.
ME is basically a neurological dysfunction that causes th ...
Author: Jonathan Hull
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Wing Tzun, a system of kung fu, has been kept a secret until recently. Contrary to what some may believe, Wing Tzun is a complete martial arts system. Today, integrating several martial arts into a functionally complete hybrid has become popular. Full contact, mixed martial arts tournaments are a testament to that. By complete, I mean a system that includes in its curriculum punching or hand techn ...
Author: Vivian Wong Bourren
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CLEARWATER, FL With support from some of the industry’s leading names, the Martial Arts Teachers’ Association ws recently launched here. According t founder John Graden, the man responsible for some of the most successful professional martial arts organizations in world, it will support instructors of all styles with continuing education, resources and networking.
"At its highest level, tea ...
Author: MartialArtsTeachers
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LARRY HARTSELL is one of a select few of the original Bruce Lee students still teaching and promoting the Master's unique fighting principles, Jeet Kune Do. Hartsell's speciality is to tie you up, tear you down and rip you apart.
A good boxer to boot (excuse the pun), Larry Hartsell was one of the first of the 'Contact Karate' Fighters back in the early 1970's. He fought in a number of 'To ...
Author: Terry P. Hill
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There is good news for people over 40 years of age. Special training is being organised by applying 24 years of martial arts experience and 12 years of teaching experience. In fact, some M.A.P.'s have already started training - they couldn't wait!
It is a misunderstanding that martial arts are only for youths, which is why many people give up when they get over 40, or never get started. Ac ...
Author: Master David Cheung
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The do-jang into which I have been led is enormous. It has the air of peace and sanctuary one feels upon entering one of those ancient stone cath~drals that can be found in most major cities in Europe. That, however, is where the European influence ends. The style, open, uncluttered space, polished timber floors, the unobtrusive decor, are unmistakably Oriental.
I am now standing in the c ...
Author: Ian Kempe
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International Taekwondo Federation of Australia was represented by six of its members at the Eighth World Championship in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea last month.
The World Championship held from September 10th-15th at the International Taekwondo Palace, brought together about 700 competitors and 200 officials from 65 countries. It was the second time ...
Author: sensei
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Possibly nowhere else in the world are there so many seventh-, eighth-, ninth- and lOth-degree black belts in karate—all of them authentic—as in the Ryukyu Island chain that sweeps southeastward from Japan to China.
Here, in this long necklace of islands, of which Okinawa is the principal jewel, modem karate was bom and refined from a Chinese foot-fighting system first introduced 400 years ago. ...
Author: Don Lucas
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