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Taekwondo Kick Harder with These Seven Simple Training Tricks

January 9th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Kung Fu Kick Harder than your opponent by following these seven simple tricks. Most Karate students you see, whether they are doing karate kicks,or taekwondo kicks, don’t really understand the physics necessary to do a proper leg kick. These poor martial arts students are merely told to kick air, or kick a bag, and that’s the extent of the Kung Fu lesson. First, you must raise the knee when you Karate kick. This insures that the foot travels into the target on a straight line, and doesn’t arc up and slide or catch toe. It’s like hitting a nail with a hammer, you have to make sure the force travels straight into the board. Second thing you must do is tilt the hips slightly. You don’t have to tilt them a whole … Read entire article »

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Old Man Knocked Down for the Count…Is It Time to Study Kung Fu?

December 8th, 2011 | Add a Comment

You’re going to realize it is time to Study Kung Fu when you see this video. It takes place on a Chicago subway, some old guy is walking along begging for change, and he runs into the wrong people. To see the video simply google ‘Elderly Man Attacked on CTA Platform (Chicago).’ Now, time for some serious thought about what just happened. You see somebody old and helpless, almost dazed, definitely doesn’t have a clue, get the sense knocked out of him. So what is it about him that drives a bunch of young criminals to violence? He isn’t a threat to anybody, not in any way. He’s not threatening anybody on the platform, doesn’t really look like he knows what he is doing. So there is no reason for him being … Read entire article »

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True Data Concerning Black Belt Rankings In The Various Martial Arts

September 22nd, 2010 | Add a Comment

Black Belt rankings were instituted by Judo Founder Jigoro Kano. Master Kano is supposed to have borrowed his system on rankings used by swimming clubs. Karate clubs in Japan borrowed his ranking system. The original karate system is supposed to have had only two belts, white belt and black belt. As enrollment grew two more belts were added, green belt and brown belt. Eventually Chinese American Kenpo was founded by Ed Parker, and the number of colored belts grew greatly. Belts of color were setup in the following order: white, orange, purple, blue, green, three stages of brown, multiple stages of black. As the belt ranking systems expanded, rumors concerning the significance of the colors grew. Each system seemed to put forth a different meaning for the belt colors. White and black, when … Read entire article »

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