I was watching Discovery Times Channel, and they had this documentry on martial arts. But anyway, They showed this segment on a marine how study japanese martial arts in japan, after the Koren war. Th...
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Some recommended books:
64 Leg Attack Methods Of Shaolin Kung fu by Wang Xinde
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance...
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Interesting article:
http://s94386375.onlinehome.us/3Greatest.pdf
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http://www.metal-tiger.com/YinYanText.htm
http://www.geocities.com/ottawakungfu/250Bagau002A.htm
http://users2.ev1.net/~stma/dialogue.htm
http://cstang.www3.50megs.com/gao.htm
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Gladiators weren't like Russell Crowe, they were like David Beckham
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=70132 005
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HEROIC fights to the death between enslave...
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Pretty much a cut-paste of something I put on another forum. It is nowhere near complete and generally tackles ancient and Western MA. Tackles a few misconceptions common in the MA world about China b...
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hi, i just found the ARMA website: http://www.thearma.org/
Loads of historical stuff on Westernm martial arts.
it is mostly about weapons stuff but includes lots of ancient texts. one that fa...
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I've been looking around on the internet for some kind of history of the dogi article, but have yet to find one. I'm curious as to where it comes from, why it looks the way it does, why someone starte...
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For y'all who have been trying to sort facts from fiction when considering the early days of Hawai'i line American kenpo/kempo, there are finally a number of resources available to you--free, or moder...
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I have heard this code several times in a couple ways in various martial art schools.
Avoid rather than check.
Check rather than hurt.
Hurt rather than maim.
Maim rather than kill.
Fo...
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1980
Kazuyoshi Ishii establishes the Seidokan Karate school in Osaka, with dojos and university-based karate clubs in the Kansai area.
1982
The first All Japan Karate-Do Tournament is he...
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Where does your WC family tree begin. I guess for most of you WC practitionners it with Wing chun->...-> Yip Man.
But i'm more interrested in other lineages, the ones that doesn't involve Yip...
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This online journal is a good source of historical papers. It also has a search engine.
and it lead me to http://ejmas.com/ejmasreviews.htm. which has book reviews.
JOURNAL OF COMBATIVE SPOR...
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As I understand it, the Viking’s axe was able to do all the wood crafting chores that a regular axe could but with some design features that made it better for a weapon than a regular axe. I thi...
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One of my new favorite discussions is the existance of the Korean Samurang. Supposedly they were the origin of the Japanese samurai. Has anyone heard of them, and if so, what have you been told or h...
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I once read that cultures where people are quick to anger developed cured knife blades in order to minimize the damage caused by fights. Cultures where people are slow to anger but once angered develo...
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http://www.aboutshaolin.com /news_...%20Of%20Shaolin
There's the original article....
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YEAR 2001
In June, 2001 Shihan Yasuhiro Shichinohe and Shigeru Tabaka resign from the IKO 2 (JUne, 2001), and join forces with others Kyokushin Branch Chiefs to create a new Kyokushin organization...
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this is a paste, and if it's not kosher or legal, please straighten me/it out.
From American Heritage Fighting Arts Association
A Discussion of Boxing Stances Through History
By Ken Pfreng...
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Anyone studied this art? From the little I have seen its more akin to some sort of silat or kali art. Some martial art history researchers has lumped KunTaw together with Kuntao, Kun tau related arts....
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Many seperate arts are related, I think this is a fact. Shaolin, eagle claw, and baji appear to contain many of the same techniques and strategies. Taiji even contains some of the same techniques. I f...
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Any visitor to Bullshido will soon notice that Reality Based Self Defense training does not get much respect on this site. This is probably because of the questionable abilities of some of its advoca...
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So, I know lots of movies were made about this guy. He practiced Hung Gar Kuen. He was a persona non grata before the chinese government for some reason during the 1800s, and he died in the beginning ...
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Has anybody heard of a Martial Art called Haidong Gumdo?
I'm trying to ferret out it's accurate history. The one they provide on the eng.HDGD.org website is fictional.
So far I've been able t...
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I'm nowhere near a history buff at all, but I wanted to share the link with y'all because I love ya.
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Discovering the Origins of Martial Arts: The Dunhuang Caves
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