How to Select the Right Kind of Shoes For Martial Arts
Posted March 27th, 2009D Southard asked: Every sport has its own demand from a human body. Whether it is the hands that are involved or the feet, it is a requirement that one should use the right kind of accessories while practicing their favorite sport. Thus shoes to play soccer or basketball are different from shoes for martial [...]
Martial Arts Don’t Turn Kids Into Bullys
Posted March 27th, 2009Scott Taylor asked: I began to learn Karate when I was just eight years old. I am stressing on the word “Karate”, so please don’t mix it up with Tae Kwon Doe, or Aikido, or Chung Moo Doe, etc. It was the 60’s and in America we only knew Judo and a few styles of [...]
Which Martial Art Is The Best?
Posted March 26th, 2009Paul A. Walker asked: I’m often asked the question “Which is better, Karate or Taekwondo?”; “Which is stronger, Judo or Kung Fu?”; or more direct questions such as “Could you beat a Mixed Martial artist in a fight?”Thanks to the current popularity of the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) we are seeing a showcase of different [...]
Win Before Competing With Hypnosis
Posted March 26th, 2009Todd Stofka asked: One thing that affects your sports performance on field is the fear of bad performance, or to put it simply, the fear of losing. Failure psychosis actually dogs one’s personality at every walk of life but it takes a winner to overcome it better than all others in the fray. In order [...]
A Brief Background On Diego Sanchez
Posted March 26th, 2009Phoenix Delray asked: Diego The Nightmare Sanchez was born on December 31, 1981 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is a mixed martial artist with a background wrestling and Gaidojutsu, a system of wrestling developed for him by his long time personal trainer, Greg Jackson. Sanchez, in addition to pioneering the combat method that has made [...]
Developing a Dangerous Guard
Posted March 25th, 2009Kosta Megas asked: Have you ever noticed that there are two common approaches beginners take when getting their opponent in their Guard?Either they go completely on the defensive and try to defend the position against their opponents offense or, they try to directly go to a submission like an armbar from there and most likely [...]
The Flowing Movement of the Snake Lends Itself Well to the Art of Kung Fu
Posted March 25th, 2009Dora Theodore asked: The Fluid Movement of the Snake Lends Itself Well to the Art of Kung Fu———-If youve been reading my articles, you know I have two loves: Mastering various Kung Fu styles and seeing them done in films.Ive been doing snake style Kung Fu for nearly eight years now. Once I transitioned into [...]
Kumdo, The Martial Art Of Swordsmanship.
Posted March 24th, 2009Yoshi Kundagawa asked: I recently had a couple of students in my Wing Chun class ask for training in swordsmanship. Now, Kung Fu has a lot of weapons forms, but they tend to be stylized, rather than sparring formats. I originally thought of teaching them Kendo, on the Japanese forms, but having just taken some [...]
Fedor Emelianenko is One Amazingly Tough Dude
Posted March 24th, 2009Phoenix Delray asked: When it comes to mixed martial arts, you would be hard pressed to find a family more into the sport than Fedor Emelianenkos. Born and raised in Rubizhne, Luhansk (at the time, in the 1970s, it was part of Russia. Now, the area belongs to Ukraine), Fedor Emelianenko is the oldest of [...]
Bob Sapp
Posted March 22nd, 2009Peter Vermeeren asked: Bob Sapp, an athlete born September 22, 1972 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is an accomplished kick boxer and martial arts fighter. He is known as “The Beast” and is most famous in Japan and Korea where he has appeared in television commercials and has even released a music CD called “Its Sapp [...]