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How to Use Your Body Weight in Martial Arts
Understanding martial arts can often feel like a study in physics – understanding leverage, force, momentum, and yes, body weight, can make the difference between someone who knows his stuff and someone who’s destined to stay at white belt forever. If you’re a Newtonian at heart (Force = mass times acceleration), then this article is [...]
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The Most Vulnerable and Often Overlooked Primary Striking Areas: Eyes, Throat, Knees and Groin
Do you know what the most obvious primary striking areas on the body are? What are the most vulnerable human body targets – regardless of size or shape? If you guessed the eyes, throat, knees or groin, you are correct. Let’s review some of the benefits of targeting the fantastic four target areas of the [...]
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Should You Take Up Kickboxing?
When most people think about kickboxing, they don’t necessarily view it as a martial art, but virtually any type of active, physical fighting skills that are developed do indeed count as “martial arts.” So what exactly separates kickboxing from the other popular martial arts you’ve heard of, such as karate or kung fu? The more [...]
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The Karate Primer: Understanding the Goals of Karate
If you’ve ever seen a movie fight sequence, there’s a good chance you already know what the public perception of “karate” looks like. A hand chop here, a punch and block there; essentially, it looks like choreographed dancing. But in reality, Karate is more than fighting well enough that you look good; it’s about understanding [...]
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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 “karate” as if [...]
