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Taekwondo Martial Arts Testing: What to Know
Testing: What to Know
Every school has a different way of testing In some schools, being invited to the test means you've already earned the next belt and the test is just a formality...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Central-Asian Martial Arts - Inbuan Wrestling, Aki Kiti, Silambam
Inbuan Wrestling
This wrestling style, native to Mizoram, thought to have originated in the village of Dungtland around 1750...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Introduction to the Martial Arts in Southeast Asia and Oceania
The sheer diversity of cultures in Southeast Asia and Oceania has played a large part in the evolution of martial arts in the region...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Chinese Martial Arts - Taijiquan
A martial art and health regime with an underlying Daoist philosophy, taiji (often written as tai chi) is practiced by millions of people in China and around the world...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Korean Martial Arts - Hapkido, Taekyon, Kwan Moo, Yongmudo, Gwon Gyokdo, Hwa Rang Do
Sun Kwan Moo
A little-known, Buddhist-based martial art, sun kwan moo includes meditation and physical training with the aim of advancing students toward enlightenment...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Southeast Asian Martial Arts - Muay Thai (Thai Boxing)
Muay Thai is a hard fighting martial art that resembles pradel serey, tomoi, and muay Lao from Laos It is probably derived from muay boran and krabi krabong...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Southeast Asian Martial Arts - Bando Thaing, Liu Seong Kuntao, Sindo
Bando Thaing
Also known simply as "bando," this martial art is inspired by the bull, eagle, cobra, panther, and monkey, with the characteristics of each animal reflected in its forms or set movements...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Southeast Asian Martial Arts - Pencak Silat
Pencak silat refers to more than 800 individual schools of martial arts across the 13,000 islands of Indonesia...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Arts and Crafts
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Southeast Asian Martial Arts - Eskrima
A Filipino martial art that focuses on armed combat with a stick, a sword, or a machete, eskrima is characterized by its battle-proven techniques...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Chest and Shoulder and Arms Training For MMA
Not only do huge shoulder and chest muscles make a warrior look more imposing, but these muscles, when properly trained, can also make him more dangerous...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Mixed Martial Arts Today
Some of the most successful fighters today have a ground game, wrestling skills, and superior striking...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Food Nutrition Labels and the MMA Athletes Diet
An important skill that MMA athletes have to have besides punching, wrestling, and submissions is how to read a food label...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
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Learning Toys Under $50
Parents don’t have to break their bank account to provide their children with top quality toys While parents want the best for their children many toys can be very expensive, but that doesn’t necessarily make them better for their children...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Parenting
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Tips for the Best Toddler Toys
Now that your precious baby can do more then eat, sleep, and cry its time to purchase some toys to entertain as well as educate your toddler...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Parenting
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Karate Systems, Part 2 of 3
Wide appeal
In addition to being popular in Japan, shotokan has a large practitioner base in the West and is widely taught in a number of martial-arts schools in both the US and the UK...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Karate Systems, Part 3 of 3
Okinawan Kobudo
Sometimes known just as "kobudo," this art is thought to be a forerunner of karate The techniques of the two arts are closely related in some ways, and kobudo's "kata" (set forms) do include certain empty-hand movements, although they all tend to be based around traditional weapons, such as the bo staff, the tonfa, the sai, the sickle, and the nunchaku, along with improvised farming tools...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Karate Systems, Part 4 of 3 (Bonus Addition!)
This has been such a popular subject that we have added a bonus article covering a few extras about Karate Systems...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Karate Systems, Part 1 of 3
Karate Systems, Part 1 of 3
Okinawan Karate
The development of karate as a form of unarmed combat is, in large part, due to the ban on carrying weapons imposed during the reign of Okinawa's King Shoshin (1477-1526), and following the Satsuma clan's invasion of Okinawa in 1609...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Judo Training Methods
There is a considerable variety of practice methods and training drills in judo for skills development and considerable flexibility in the ways in which they are used by different instructors...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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The Martial Arts Dojo - Tatami and Sensei
The dojo or training hall is the place where judo is practiced and where the judo player is introduced to the sport and taught mat etiquette and safety procedures...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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The Essence of Ninjutsu
The ninja were a group of assassins and spies who fought and hunted in the mountainous regions of Japan...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Judo Training: Overtraining and Stress
Any additional training done for judo ought to be integrated into the judoka's total training program and indeed his life...
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Japanese Styles
Kyudo, Kyokushin Karate, Shootfighting, Puroresu
Kyudo
This archery system is based on the ancient bowmanship techniques of hunters and warriors, but today is practiced primarily for physical and spiritual development...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Judo Techniques - Advancing Foot Sweep
This technique is performed on the move and relies on good timing and a smooth, rhythmical sweeping action...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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The 3 Facets of Martial Arts You May Not Know
Introduction to Martial Arts, Part 1
The term martial arts can be defined as an art of combat that combines codified fighting techniques with philosophy, strategy, and cultural traditions...
Author: Troy Macraft - Category: Sports
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Chinese Martial Arts
China, the world's largest country by population, is widely regarded as the home of martial arts and is the birthplace of numerous diverse styles...
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The Nunchaku Use by the Ninja
Ninja were highly trained warriors of feudal Japan Ninjas executed covert and dangerous missions, such as assassinations and espionage...
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