Best Martial Arts Articles

If you do any kind of martial arts sparring, you know that protective gear is of the utmost importance. Any man who has the stones to go into a sparring match without a cup on, won?t have them for very long. There?s protective gear like the heavily padded ?foot gloves? that I wear when I?m teaching, so I don?t accidentally do a spin kick and take someone?s head off when they miss a block. But the protective gear I want to sing the praises of today are the martial arts sparrin...

I got my first lesson in jujitsu a couple of months ago. I had been taking kickboxing for about a month and had lost over 5 pounds and my cardio had improved immensely. A buddy of mine invited a few guys from the gym over to his place to watch the Ultimate Fighting Championships. If you've ever watched a UFC pay-per-view you remember how many commercials and long lags there are between matches. The conversation turned towards Brazillian Jujitsu. For those unfamiliar wit...

Many types of Martial Arts have a colored belt system. Judo was the first type of Martial Arts to adopt this practice. The color of the belt indicates the level of skill the student has. Students have to pass skill tests to move on to learning techniques and moves of the next color. Beginners start with a white belt. In the old days, the white belt was dyed the new color as a rite of passage and honor in Martial Arts. Today the belt is simply replaced with the new color of th...

Martial arts are a sport that combines a variety of different methods of combat. In some cases, martial arts are used only for use, in other cases; martial arts are used in head-to-head combat, in generally controlled situations, such as matches or shows. Because martial arts includes a variety of different styles, it is normal when a person thinks of martial arts, that they think of one specific types, for example, karate. However, there is more to martial arts than just ...

This article centers on the explosion in the mixed martial arts in California, particularly in Southern Orange County.

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 Tae Kwon Do classes of my own, I decided to look a little further afield. I found the Korean cognate of Kendo, called kumdo. While there are a lot of practitioners of kumdo who claim th...

Discover the real truth behind ninja's and the different types of swords they used to assassinate their enemies

Years ago, when I got my first computer with an internet access, I searched the net, typing in all the key words used for striking points in all of the martial arts. Words like, Dim Mak, Pressure Point, Vital Point, Poison Hand and so on. At that time there were few web sites with very little if any information. Some of these web sites contained mostly partial lists of pressure points, with out pictures or drawings and very little if any commentary.

How Kids can enjoy martial arts.

I've got something pretty miraculous to tell you about. I found out about this awesome way of balancing your mind and body. It is like nothing I have ever seen before. It?s called Tai Chi and finding out about it changed my life. And for the better I can tell you. Practicing this specialized form of martial arts has given me a sense of well-being and calmness I never thought possible. This is considered an internal martial arts, so if you think it is nothing but silly figh...