Zen in the Martial Arts
“A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.”–Samurai Maximum.

Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyams reveals to you how the daily application of Zen principles not only developed his physical expertise but gave him the mental discipline to control his personal problems-self-image, work pressure, competition. Indeed, mastering the spiritual goals in martial arts can dramatically alter the quality of your life-enriching your relationships with people, as well as helping you make use of all your abilities.

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Introducing Wing Chun – Chinese Self-Defense, Developed By A Woman, Even Practiced by Martial Arts Legend Bruce Lee

I consider myself fortunate to have also studied the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun Kung Fu (or in Cantonese also known as Gung Fu).  Coming from a Shotokan karate training background I will admit that studying Wing Chun was a real change of pace, if you know what I mean.

But after having read about some other famous practitioners such as Ip Man, Bruce Lee, Ip Chun, Leung Ting, Emin Boztepe, I just had to give it my best shot.  I studied under Sifu Francis Fong, one of the finest kung fu instructors in the U.S.

Wing Chun, translated into English, means ‘Eternal Spring or Beautiful Springtime’ and refers to the name of Yim Wing Chun, who received Chinese boxing training from a Buddhist nun. At the time the style was nameless.

Yim later married and taught her husband this style of fighting. He then simply went ahead and gave the syle her name, Wing Chun.

There are a number of theories and versions about how this style originated. I like the one I just gave you.

The typical stance is supposed to be like a piece of bamboo, firm but flexible, rooted but yielding.

Wing Chun favors a high, narrow stance with your elbows kept close to your body and your arms are positioned across the vitals of the centerline.

Attack and defense follow along an imaginary horizontal line drawn from the center of your chest to the center your opponent’s chest. The prime striking targets are on or near this line, including eyes, nose, throat, solar plexus and groin.

With the emphasis on the center line, your vertical fist straight punch will be your most common strike.

Your kicks are to be kept below the waist. This is typical of southern Chinese martial arts, in contrast to northern systems which apply many high kicks.

Chained vertical punches are used a lot.

You develop your reflexes by searching unsecured defenses through use of sensitivity.
Training through Chi Sao (‘sticking hands”) with a training partner, one practices the trapping of hands. When an opponent is “trapped”, he or she becomes immobile.

Wing Chun also offers forms that are meditative, solitary exercises to develop self-awareness, balance, relaxation and sensitivity. They also help you in the fundamental movement and in generating the correct amount of force.

This style generally consists of three empty hand, one “wooden dummy” and two weapons forms.

There you have it: Wing Chun in a nutshell.

Enjoy this exciting martial art and always protect your centerline!

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The Benefits of Tai Chi and Internal Martial Arts for Self-defense: Part 1 of 2

The Benefits of Tai Chi and Internal Martial Arts for Self-defense: Part 1 of 2

Internal Martial arts such as Tai Chi, or Ba Gua can be extremely effective for self defense if trained correctly. There are a few strategic principles in Chinese internal Martial Arts that can provide a tactical advantage in melee combat. I will outline them in the following sections: Body Alignment and Changing, Friction and Sensitivity, Timing, Initiative (these last two I will explain in part two of this article). You will notice there is no magic to any of this – it is all science. For more information on tai chi, self-defence and kung fu please visit Martial Arts London Ontario (MALO).

Body Alignment / Posture and Body Changing

The first thing about internal chinese martial arts like Tai Chi and Ba Gua is that they are based off of the chinese system of medicine. This system has been well aware of things that chiropractors and sports physiotherapists are just starting to learn about the human nervous system and spinal cord, meditative benefits, and muscle/tendon functional excellence. Like gymnasts and dancers, internal arts practitioners do difficult and challenging exercises, drills, and forms in order to literally change their body’s metabolism, balance, structure, tendon strength, speed and flexibility. The more serious one is with their body changing training, the more results they will see. Doing Tai Chi once per week without the requisite secrets is not good enough. At first this training is extremely difficult, just as jogging is extremely difficult for the beginner. But after years of practice, the internal martial artist’s body starts to change, and they start to see the health and martial benefits as they begin to move as a functional unit and cease using “awkward force”. They also get damaged less often in hard martial arts sparring. This body changing also includes tendon conditioning, thus making an internal artist “seem” stronger as they move as a more functional unit. Tendons are as strong as steel. If you can learn to use them, and to strengthen them, then you will move as a more functional and solid (yet fluid) unit.

Friction and Sensitivity

Another key aspect in internal arts like Tai Chi, or Ba Gua (Cheng Sher and Magui), is friction, or what is sometimes called sticky hands. With this body changing, and two person “push”, “search”, or “sticky” hands practice, practitioners become more sensitive to the movements of others, and by using this sensitivity, internal martial artists can use a foe’s force against them by placing them off balance. And by using friction, the practitioner can deliver more kinetic energy per second than a straight punch. All boxers know that more friction means more damage, so too does this apply to throws and arm drags. The more friction when throwing an opponent, the more kinetic energy you deliver into them, the faster they hit the ground. Also, using friction properly

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It was back in 1993 the very first competition MMA competition commenced with only a few rules to ensure the players safe, although additional rules have been added in modern contests. The aim of the various competitions is to find the one fighter who can perform in unarmed melee combat and similar to popular sports like wresting and boxing mixed martial arts too has grown to be a very popular sport, even on‘pay per view’.

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To get a grasp on mixed martial arts, and embrace it, you should learn pertaining to it’s history.

A very old melee combat that bears resemblance to MMA is known as the Pankration that aside, the MMA standards and rules are not dissimilar to the ones used in Egyption Freefightin, as well as Shardana. You can trace this sport all the way back to the Olympic games in 648 BC. Pankrations practiced in Were not nearly as violent as compared to the Roman pancratium and Etruscan. Mixed martial arts is not new, in fact you can see statues paying tribute to Roman fighters.

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Events were also held in the 1800′s and those who participated employed various wrestling and fighting forms in events that were organized all through the continent. In the United States, a wrestler called John Sullivan and a boxer, William Muldoon, met face to face in the year 1887 and in only two minutes Muldoon defeated Sullivan.

Then, in the 19th century Giovanni Raicevich (Italian) managed to fight off Akitaro Ono (Japanese) following that, in 1935 Ray Steele won his fight in thirty five seconds, defeating Kingfish Levinsky. Bartitsu was founded in London in 1899 and this was the very first MMA known in history, being a combination from both Asian, and European fighting styles though all through European countries Jujitsu and Boxing were well known forms of entertainment. In Japan, there were also such contests and these were dubbed ‘merikan’ which was the slang word for American fighting.

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In conclusion mixed martial arts are traceable all over Japan, Pacific Rim, and Europe and has tournaments all over the world. The referee has final word and can end a fight if he feel that one of the combatants can no longer fight. A player can be defeated by knockout or if the corner man throws the towel into the ring.

That is an elementary look at the chronicle of Mixed Martial Arts but at least you now have a concept how MMA commenced.

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