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Did you check out some of the links off of that article? There is some more interesting stuff there, including tournaments and demonstrations that he performed, and that he was going to perform in front of the Prince of Wales, but had a bike accident.

That is a very interesting article. It shows kind of a halfway point between the martial arts of 14th through the 16th centuries and the martial arts of today. What he did may have been revolutionary at the time, but before him various masters-at-arms were training troops in hands, feet, wrestling, and weapons. As far as how things would be different, I don't know. People worked a lot more hours then, and may not have had time to do it. It would have been more for the upper class to attend, and most of them probably spent time boxing or fencing.

I have studied in the ICHF curriculum for a while. Haven't done much lately, but I have some friends and classmates that I can practice with. If you want to bounce some ideas around, shoot. I'll do my best. However, you do outrank me.

In the book, the sliding up and down the weapon was used to facilitate thrusting. And the main reason it was assumed to be a weapon to counter the sword was because the sword was the most poplular weapon amongst the warrior class at the time. It would be interesting to train jo against bo.

Here are some great web sites on medieval martial arts: https://www.thearma.org https://www.aemma.org I think you will be impresses with the intricacies involved in learning these systems. I wish I had a place near by to really hit some classes.

Wow!! Kata without bunkai is just dance. One steps are important, but they are not everything. The heart of Karate exists in the Kata. Is it that you haven't trained for a long time? Or does the bunkai just not get covered in class. Perhaps you could get with your instructor to arrange learning the bunkai. I know, it makes me mad that I am missing out. Maybe TKD guys just don't do bunkai. Sometimes I think our instructor is so dialed in to keeping our basics down, and being prepared for testing, that we miss out on other stuff. Don't get me wrong, he is a great instructor, and is very technical, but he just doesn't vary much from the basic class. I have been training for 13 years, so it isn't that. I guess the nice thing is that if I ever start my own school, I know what I would like to incorporate into it, and how I would set up my classes.

I was interested to learn that the only fight Musashi lost was to Muso Gonnosuke Katsuyoshi, who did so with the jo. He lost his first duel with Musashi, in which fight he used a bo.

Martial arts as a whole, including su bak and taek yon, vanished from the Korean penninsula as a whole during the Yi dynasty and subsequently from the Japanese occupation. Their influence in TKD, and probably TSD, is irrevelant. The Chung do kwan do-jang opened in Seoul in 1944. Between '44 and '46 five more kwans were opened. According to the Dragon Times article, these six original Korean instructors had attended Japanese universities and some were soldiers in the Japanese Imperial army. They learned Karate in Japan, and returned with dan ranking, and began to teach, adding and modifying as they saw fit. Korea was incorporated into the Chinese Empire in 108 BC, and the advent of the Chinese culture accelerated Korean cultural development (again, according to Dragon Times). The "ancient" Korean styles are most likely considered early forms of Chinese boxing.

We do everything from underneath the armpit, by the ribs. We don't do a lot of varying, because I think our instructor doesn't want us to have bad habits for testing purposes. Personally, I would like to practice our one-steps from an on-guard, hands up position from time to time, shortening things up and using no stances.

wat weapons are taught in Medieval Martial arts i been woundering that for awhile During the medieval times, a master-at-arms would often drill troops to use sword and shield, pole weapons like the halberd, and they would also include hand-to-hand fighting. Other weapons include axes, long pole axes, the quarterstaff, the mace, and the dagger. Archery was also an aspect of medieval military training. Later on, in the 16th and 17th century, with the advent of firearms, what most of the unknowing public recognizes as fencing became popular with more slender swords, adopting the use of the thrust more than the cut.

Thanks for the explanation. I thought that the object in judo was to get the opponent to the ground, and then work a pin move on an arm or leg. Is this correct? Personally, I have always wanted to learn judo, for the throws. It looks like a good time to me.

I just finished reading a book about the jo staff, the Japanese short staff, measuring about 4 feet long. Why don't we see this weapon very much? Who here trains or has trained with it? It seems very simple, but has a lot of great applications. I think that it would be a geat weapon to learn.

Me and some friends get together every so often and spar with wooden swords, wear armour, and stuff like that. We have a bang-up time!! They are not quite traditional weapons, unless you were in medieval Europe. Eventually, we are going to start quarterstaff fighting.

Good article. Finding even 20 free minutes is enough to get a little sweat going. Does anyone else do kicks during commercials?

If you are having trouble finding a partner, try at the local high school wrestling team. See if some of them would work with you a few nights a week. They will have some idea of what you are doing. Also, if they don't wrestle after high school, maybe they would be interested in continuing their training.

I don't study either, but I have several books on BJJ, one on small circle jiu-jitsu, and one on Kodokan Judo. What are the major differences in judo and jiu-jutsu? Is it throwing, locking, philosophies? I don't notice a lot of choking in judo, and I know it is more often than not trained as an Olympic sport. If you could please help me through my dilema, that would be great. Thanks in advance.

My style of TKD is traditional. We don't do a lot of throws or locks in our traditional practice. We have one one-step with a takedown, and 5 or 6 that have some arm twisting in them. Not much else. We have some ho sin sool techniques, but we don't get to them often.

I have to agree with all so far on jujutsu. Standing up fighting and groundfighting are always a great combination. As a side note, I have always thought that learning caporiea would be so COOL. It may not look like it would have as many practical applications, but it looks like a load of fun, and the kicks are very strong. And I may be wrong about the applications. It may be more practical than I realize.

I firmly believe that the arts of TSD and TKD do not have any foundations in any ancient Korean fighting styles. There just isn't enough evidence out there to substantiate it. A few years ago I remember reading a section in Dragon Times about how the history of TKD was embelished, and that it is indeed one of the newest forms of martial arts created. When I read this information, it kind of upset me that some of my previous instructors had filled me up with that stuff. Oh, well, I guess. It really is OK that TKD and TSD don't have ancient roots. That fact does not demean their effectiveness as martial styles.

Here is a simple equation that correspondes to learning the MA in general: Learning a style - no instructor = no chance at success.

With your dance background, you might look into caporiea, or maybe another kicking art, like Taekwondo. However, any art will benefit you, if you can find a good instructor.

Some of the differences in the stances comes from the people who took the art, and then modified it to suit their needs. Shorter peoples tended to shorten their stances and use less knee bend, in order to look taller, or to fight taller. The way the TSD and TKD forms look now, compared to the older Okinawan styles is a wonderful display of the evolution of these martial styles. One could learn a lot of why and how different peoples from different regions did things the way they did them. The climate, and terrain, and other factors such as these all contribute to why things end up being done the way they are done. There is always a deeper meaning than "because that's the way my instructor did it."

I think this is a good idea. I would love to buy shirts from my school, and it is kind of a nice promotional tool.

In my classes, we don't really get to do any "bunkai" applications of forms. We do our onesteps, but I question their capabilities at times. I like the sound of the bunkai training that you guys do, and I would like to try it myself.

This is an excellent video. It proves some points of a lot of things that we go around about on the forums... 1. High kicks can be effective 2. Punching is always effective 3. Everyone should learn some grappling This is great. We can learn how to be effective with high kicks, and what not to do with them. We can learn to mix kicking with takedowns. We also see the effectiveness of low kicking, and striking is always at the forefront of effectiveness.