Friday, March 31, 2023

Yang Style Taijiquan (Yang Shouhou Lineage) Small Frame Form

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Improving Your Martial Arts Practice

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Below is an excerpt from an article which posits that variability, not repetition is the key to mastery. The full post may be read here. Bru...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Wu Style Short Form

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Sensei Makio Nishida is a senior Japanese karate teacher, who is also a master of Wu style Taijiquan . Below is a video of him performing th...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Vintage Meibukan Karate Video

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Film depicts a young Meitatsu Yagi, oldest son of Grandmaster Meitoku Yagi, Shosei Shiroma and an unknown karateka performing kata and kumi...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Ancient Irish Martial Art

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The BBC Travel page had an article about, Batairecht, an old Irish martial art that is making a comeback. Below is an excerpt. The full art...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Conditioning and How to Develop It

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Below is an excerpt from an article that appeared at The Art of Manliness on conditioning. The full post may be read here. I’m a big fan of...
Monday, March 13, 2023

The Legacy of Hung Gar's Wong Fei Hung

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Wong Fei Hung is a giant in Chinese martial arts history. Below is an excerpt from Crane in the Tiger's Shadow blog regarding his endur...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Japanese Buddhist Woodcarving

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Carving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners s...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

Joint Locks and Pain

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There was a post at Japanese Jiu-Jitsu Journey, which copied an old post from yet another blog on the efficacy of joint locks applications ...