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How to Fix Your Martial Arts Woes – And Where!
You’ve heard it said before. “If you want to learn to speak German, there’s no better place to be on the Earth than Germany.” Why do so many people say this? Because it’s true! If you want to get fully immersed in a new skill, it’s often simple smarts that tell [...]
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What Makes Karate Karate?
Many of us have heard of martial arts films. We’ve seen them, we’ve heard of fighting styles like karate, kung fu, and tae kwon do. However, if we were ever asked to differentiate between the styles, how many of us in the west would really know how? We throw out the term [...]
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What is Grappling, and Is It a Martial Art?
Have you ever heard of “grappling” before? Okay, you’ve heard it in the title to this article, but if you’re not very exposed to the world of mixed martial arts, there’s a good chance you might not have heard of grappling. Grappling is a specific discipline and method of exercise that can be [...]
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Martial Arts Styles and Origins
There may be a vast and wide variety of martial arts techniques, but not everyone has knowledge of every one of them. If someone plans on pursuing a martial arts class but does not know the various styles and forms that can be practiced, they will have an awful lot of trouble finding an appropriate [...]
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What Are the Most Popular Martial Arts Today?
The martial arts have been developing for thousands of years, so it makes sense that in today’s culture, you can find so many disciplines and sub-disciplines within the “martial arts” realm. But what kind of martial arts define what is going on today, and what are people interested in learning? Some of the [...]
