Martial Arts Sparring - Is Sparring Practice In Martial Arts A Waste Of Time?

Does non-contact point sparring actually decrease your ability to defend yourself in a real situation? After all, you're pulling punches, avoiding eye gouges, bone breaking, wrist locks and the like. How can you learn to defend yourself when you're restricting your options?

Why Choose Jujitsu Over Any Other Martial Art?

Jujitsu training can improve an individual's aerobic capacity, speed, power, strength, agility and flexibility. It develops complete body control, fine balance and fast reflexive action. Above all, it develops a sharp reacting mind- well coordinated with the same kind of body.

Learn How To Kick - Kicking Effectively In A Self-Defense Or Combat Situation Part 8 Of 10

Impact is the culmination of everything that we've talked about so far in this series of articles. As you can see from the itemized list above, the first 8 out of 10 total components leads up to and includes making impact with your intended target. Here are a few things that should be considered concerning your kick making impact with your opponent.

A Dummy Can Teach You How to Flow Smoothly From Technique to Technique

Dummy training allows the Wing Chun practitioner a way to correctly train the body in performing techniques. The reason Wing Chung wooden dummy training is so important is that it allows the skin and bones to strengthen and toughen up. When making contact in a real fight, your fists and shins are subjected to a lot of force and pain. Striking air does not get your skin and bones ready for a real fight. Hitting the Mook Jung allows ...

Aikido - General Background

If we are attacked by a force and we apply force ourselves, a collision of energies ensues which results in disharmony. Thus, accordingly the stronger force wins. If, however, we meet the force with an absorbing movement and then exhaust it to the point of imbalance before applying a force of our own (the Aikido way), we are in fact restoring harmony or redressing an imbalance. This is the basic logic and underlying philosophy of Aikido.

UFC Heavyweight Division - From Awful To Awesome

A Year ago the UFC's Heavyweight division was not in good shape. There was a lack of exciting fighters, but what a difference a year makes. UFC now has the best heavyweights in Mixed Martial Arts.

Learn To Unleash The Explosive Power Of Wing Chun

This amazing force which when applied correctly can create a completely devastating force like shooting with fingers instead of a gun, it can damage organs, rupture blood vessels and cause havoc with the nervous system. It can be a deadly weapon.

Martial Arts Book Review - Judo Seio-Nage by Hidetoshi Nakanishi

Although the primary focus of this book is on the sporting aspect of Judo, the techniques in it can easily be modified for use in combat or self-defense situations. Although most modern schools of Judo focus on the sporting aspects, you must remember that Judo was originally derived from Jujitsu by Dr. Jigoro Kano. Therefore, with the proper knowledge and a little modification, you can easily adapt the sporting techniques of Judo back to the more self-defense oriented techniques of Jujitsu.

Martial Arts Book Review - Deadly Karate Blows by Brian Adams

Now depending upon your own personal knowledge on the subject, and your own personal perspective, you will either love this book or revile it. While I myself readily question some of the material presented in this book, I do find a lot of it to be very informative in both a positive and a negative way. Rather than dwelling on the negative aspects, I will instead focus on the positive aspects of this book.

Martial Arts DVD Review - Joint Locking Essentials, Vol. 2 Arm Bars & Elbow Locks by Alain Burrese

Alain takes a very realistic approach to the use of arm bars and elbow locks and attempts to cover several influencing factors that may or may not come into play while attempting to apply them in a real life situation. I myself watched this DVD on three separate occasions and found something that I had previously missed each time. I have no doubt that were I to watch this DVD again after writing this review that I would find something else that I had previously missed.

Brazilian Jujitsu

Brazilian Jujitsu originated from the Japanese martial art that utilizes a system of strikes, blocks, throws, locks and sweeps to be able overcome and ward off an attacker. Brazilian Jujitsu is both defensive and practical form of martial art. Brazilian Jujitsu assists the defender in making use of his attacker's size, momentum and strength to his advantage as an effective means of overcoming his attacker. Once a defender gets to be adept at this technique, he can really become very good at the Brazilian Jujitsu martial art.

Tai Chi Chuan - General Background

As a martial art, Tai chi chuan works on a number of levels, but the principal aim is to teach practitioners to relax and become fluid in their movements. This allows for smoother actions and quicker response times. The objective is for self-defense to become a reflexive action rather than a repetition of technique. There is a variety of sensitivity exercises which allow the practitioner to adapt instantly to an opponent and to react in the most appropriate manner. Incoming force will, typically, be diverted, however slightly, and the corresponding opening in the opponent's defense exploited.

Iaido - General Background

Iaido is the art of drawing the sword and striking an armed opponent at lightning speed. It is the art of strategy, achieving precision in all aspects of mental and physical ability, including accurate footwork, balanced posture and critical timing. Live blades are razor-sharp and experienced practitioners are the only ones permitted to use them. The risk involved is thought to be worthwhile because this is the only way achieve the ultimate in awareness and concentration, and to unify the mind and the body together in total harmony.

Free-form Sparring and Exercises to Develop Internal Energy

Take a sneak peak into the world of Hapkido. The history, traditions and technique of this ancient form of martial arts.