China - Martial Arts Clubs
Fresh Articles Added Since January 09, 2009
Aikido
Techniques - Physical Application-Spiritual Focus
The various martial arts teach defensive techniques in their own special way.
Aikido combines the physicality of self-defense techniques with an additional
level of mental and spiritual development...
Street
Fighting Moves - The 5 Most Deadly Mistakes of Street Self Defense
You Don't Have Situational Awareness - Situational awareness means you see the
"orange alert" signals of suspicious and dangerous-looking behavior on the part
of suspicious and dangerous-looking individuals...
Body Building
Routines For the Advanced
Advanced body builders are an elite group of individuals who have successfully
overcome the odds and remained consistent in their training. At this level,
almost everyone has already gained quality muscle mass, as well as lost significant
amounts of body fat. Their physiques may already be close to their ultimate
goals. With a little polish, time and patience, you will be a symbol of symmetry
and sexuality...
Body
Building Routines For the Intermediate
At this time, you should already have mastered the basic exercises and strict
and proper form for a consistent period of 16 to 24 weeks. There are several
definitions for the intermediate body builder, but the most important thing
is that you should already be prepared to take on bigger challenges and levels
of stress that starters cannot tolerate. Routines will incorporate new movements
that reveal more muscles...
Body Building
Routines For the Beginner
Every individual will respond differently to exercises and body building routines.
Some of the major aspects that will affect muscle growth and condition are current
strength level, activity tolerance, capacity to heal or recover, body type and
genetics. Beginners should keep in mind that their workouts should never be
the same as an advanced body builder's. If they do they may risk overtraining
and quitting entirely...
Getting
Past Your Opponent's Guard - When Your Opponent's Arm is in the Way
You are facing an opponent. Desperately, you try to get past his (or her) guard.
Unfortunately, that strong lead hand is in the way. It's obstructing your line
to the target...
Judo - Techniques
Tips and Tricks
Just as Sir Isaac Newton's laws of mechanics state that for every action there
is an equal and opposite reaction, so for every judo movement there is a counter-technique.
Naturally a badly timed or mechanically incorrect attempt at a throw is much
easier to counter than a razor-sharp, finely tuned tokui-waza...
Drop Set Workouts
For Body Builders
Drop setting in body building entails the practice of doing a set of exercises
targeting one muscle or muscle group with a heavy weight until complete exhaustion
and then immediately taking up another set with a slightly lighter weight until
complete exhaustion. Drop setting can be executed as a double-drop set where
a body builder reduces the training weight only once, a triple-drop set where
weights are reduced twice or a down-the-rack drop set where a body builder uses
all consecutive dumbbells weights in a rack...
Punching
Harder - Punch Through Like a Hot Knife Into Butter
Are you a heavier martial artist? Other martial artists may think of us as "slower,"
but we have several advantages. One of the advantages has to do with our punch
possibilities. How would you like your punching to be so hard, that the punch
melts through any resistance like a hot knife going into butter...
Judo - The
Mechanics of the Judo Throw
There are a number of different actions involved when a judo throw is performed.
Some throws involve lifting an opponent clear of the ground from a two-footed
base and throwing him backwards (uranage), others lift and throw him forwards
(kata-guruma). In some throws tori has to turn his back on uke and, contacting
with his side chest against uke's chest and balancing on one leg, sweep away
uke's legs (uchimata, harai-goshi) and throw him forwards...
Adding Mass in the
Off-Season
For a natural bodybuilder, the pre-contest is the roughest phase of all of the
year's bodybuilding. Your main goal is to lose body fat. But the secondary goal
- and perhaps the more important goal - is to maintain most of your muscle mass
while dieting down. We've all heard horror stories of the bodybuilders who cruise
through the off-season at a fairly solid...
In
A Self-Defense Situation Control The Distance And You Control The Fight
One thing that becomes painfully evident to anyone who has been studying the
Ninja's warrior arts for any length of time is...the shear impossibility of
being able to practice all that you've learned. After even a short time in training,
the number of skills, technique models known as "kata," and weapons hits a point
where, even if you wanted to, you could not consistantly practice...
Womens
Self Defense - I Still Get Chills Thinking About It
First, I want you to imagine a self-defense class filled with eager participants.
This particular class is filled with women learning how to protect themselves
against larger, stronger assailants...
The Squat
The squat is the most demanding movement the human body can perform and should
feature at the forefront of every routine. If you aren't already performing
squats either due to lack of knowledge or due to your hiding behind preconceived
void excuses, now is the time to review and take action...
Martial
Arts Attacks - Defending Your Long Range
Sometimes, real fights start with your attacker at a distance. Not all fights
start with your enemy right on top of you. Fortunately, some of the time, you
get a little advanced warning...
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