Have you ever watched Japanese or Chinese martial arts movies? Are you familiar with Jackie Chan or Jet Lee? Have you heard of monkey style, drunken style, eagle’s claw, tiger style and the like? All these things are commonly seen in martial arts movies that has quite a big following. To those who do not [...]
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The combination of Aikido, Judo and Karate is what is now called the Hapkido, a Korean martial art that is said to be both eclectic and dynamic. Characteristic to this form of self defense are the joint and wrist locks, the kicks, strikes, pressure points and the throws that are spectacular looking. Hapkido also make [...]
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Karate has many styles. Goju Ryu is one of them. It is an Okinawan style of karate that features the combination of both the hard and soft techniques, thus the name. “Go” meaning hard, pertains to the closed hand techniques as well as straight linear attacks. On the other hand, “Ju” which means soft, pertains [...]
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The Goju Kai Karate Do is a martial art that puts major emphasis on the sport side of this training more than the exercises and body conditioning methods found in Goju Ryu. However, the similarities of the techniques employed in both the Goju Kai and Goju Ryu are very distinct. This may be due to [...]
This fight was never close. GSP dominated the entire fight and BJ Penn looked light a BJJ white belt. Penn must have really been hurt early because he is one of the best out there and GSP made him look bad.
For GSP this continues a trend that he rededicates himself after a loss to come [...]
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