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3 Nov 2010I was working in a plastics factory a few decades ago, and word got around that I was training in the martial arts. A Philippine co-worker came up to me one lunchtime, and he said, “You no study martial arts, martial Arts bad…bad, ” then he shook his head and walked away. From this odd incident I ultimately realized where the martial arts originated.
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8 Aug 2010I walked into my first American Kenpo Karate dojo over 40 years ago. This was the Rod Martin version of Tracys Kenpo, which was avariation of Ed Parker Kenpo Karate. Therein lies the first problem with American Kenpo.
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25 Jul 2010Morihei Uyeshiba, O Sensei of Aikido, is the one who experienced enlightenment. It is he who codified his martial art, thus, the aikido Ueshiba created is the true Aikido. Sort of.
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13 Jul 2010I know, kickboxing karate doesn’t really exist, but it does make a fine translation of arts. When you shift from karate to kickboxing, or shift from kickboxing back to karate, you can win every single contest you are in by knowing the three things I am going to tell you in this article. We are dealing only with the fists, mind you, so you have to control the distance to make sure that you stay at a distance that is comfortable for you to punch at.
I doubt whether most martial arts training halls, be they Gung Fu or Shotokan or Hapkido or whatever, have ever had a crazy guy in their school like Mud Car. We called him Mud Car because that’s what his license plates on his car said. That vehicle, more than just about anything else, summed up Mud Car.
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10 May 2010Bobby lost his left arm because of a childhood infection, but it didn’t slow him down. He rode bikes, climbed trees, and did everything a child is supposed to do, except for one. He never did the martial arts, he figured he had finally found the one thing he would never do.
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10 May 2010Tai Chi Chuan is the art that speaks of emptiness. One must move without force to realize the true depth of this ancient art. And, in Tai Chi, you might run out of energy, but you’ll never run out of nothing.
I love writing articles like this, because artists who study other arts blink and have do with a bit of an inner unruliness. Taiji ain’t so bad! What about my martial art!
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23 Apr 2010One of the most astounding facts in the combative world is that Aikido does not work well in combat. The reason this is astounding is because it is derived, for the most part, from Daito Ryu Aiki Jujitsu, which is one of the most combat ready arts in existence. Interestingly, it doesn’t take much to transform Aikido into a formidable street ready art.
A lot of the martial arts, like karate, are fiction. Hit a guy up the nose with a palm and bone shards will spear into his brain and kill him, except there isn’t any bone in the nose, its all cartilage. And all those old legends, a lot of them are good for hogwash, if you have a willing hog.