Tips For Chosing A Martial Arts Style

With hundreds of different styles available, it's difficult to make a decision on what to learn. The simple answer is to stay close to home and find an instructor you like. A close location and a good instructor will keep you interested and inspired more than the style will. With that said, here are some tips to help you out.

Punch Bag Workouts

Hitting a heavy bag can be a great way to improve muscluar enduarance and tone the upper body. Working out on a heavy bag with the help of a partner also lets you focus on delivering your blows and honing your technique.

Martial Arts Safety

Staying safe while learning and practicing martial arts is essential. Avoiding injuries while training is important if you wish to have a long and happy martial arts career.

Kung-fu Spotlight: Chow Gar

Chow Gar is a close in fighting system from the Southern Shaolin, and is a form of Southern Praying Mantis. It is an aggressive style with emphasis on close in fighting. These skills are developed by utilizing a range of training techniques, which have been developed over several centuries.

Japanese Martial Art: Aikido - 合氣道:あいきどう

Aikido is a gendai budō, a modern Japanese martial art, developed by Morihei Ueshiba. The art consists primarily of body throw and joint-locking techniques.

Boxing Workout - Plyometric Circuits for Speed, Power and Strength

Plyometric Circuits are the corner stone of a good boxing workout. A boxer must maintain his strength and explosive power through a two or three minute round. Plyometric circuit training is designed to mimic the demands of an actual fight. It takes exactly two minutes, or the duration of a round in amateur boxing, to complete the following eight circuits.

Bruce Lee Pages

Here we have a selection of articles on Bruce Lee, including his diet, strength training and Jeet Kune Do, plus Bruce Lee books and other Bruce Lee related information!

Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do (JKD) is the name Bruce Lee gave to his combat philosophy in 1967. Originally, when Lee first began research into fighting styles, he gave his martial art his own name of Jun Fan Gung Fu.

Bruce Lee did not stress the memorization of solo training forms or "Kata", as most traditional styles do in their beginning-level training. Lee often compared doing forms without an opponent to attempting to learn to swim on dry land.

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