Martial arts history

[NewLevel]

Sometimes, I read comments on here or see YouTube videos on training and I realize my history and language terms are terrible in martial arts.

I get so discouraged. Are there good places around the net to learn the "real" history besides wikipedia and to learn the language?

Mostly, interested in:

Shorin-Ryu

Shotokan

Taekwondo

Wing Chun

Hapkido

[sensei8]

I can give you one for each one, but the net is jam packed full of info, some accurate and some not; ambiguity runs the gambit on the net. The value of what you find will be up to the reader.

Shorin-Ryu

http://www.shorinryu.com/

Shotokan

http://www.jka.or.jp/english/e_index.html

Taekwondo

http://www.wtf.org/wtf_eng/site/about_taekwondo/taekwondo.html

Wing Chun

http://www.cheungswingchun.com/

Hapkido

http://worldhapkidofederation.com/

Hopefully this will head you in the direction in finding just what you're looking for.

Good luck!!

[Dobbersky]

I can give you one for each one, but the net is jam packed full of info, some accurate and some not; ambiguity runs the gambit on the net. The value of what you find will be up to the reader.

Shorin-Ryu

http://www.shorinryu.com/

Shotokan

http://www.jka.or.jp/english/e_index.html

Taekwondo

http://www.wtf.org/wtf_eng/site/about_taekwondo/taekwondo.html

Wing Chun

http://www.cheungswingchun.com/

Hapkido

http://worldhapkidofederation.com/

Hopefully this will head you in the direction in finding just what you're looking for.

Good luck!!

Solid post!!!! These are good links and I agree there's a vast amount of info via Google and Wikipedia out there

[ps1]

My best recommendation is to read as many different versions of History as possible. Find the commonalities, and that's usually where the truth lies.

For the Hx section of my website (for Gracie Jiu-Jitsu) it took me a long time just to get accurate biographies of when each person started training and the changes made to the art in comparison to Judo. But I ended up with a very accurate representation of what happend and how it came about.

[kensei]

For as many sources out their that are legit and offer a true perspective of martial history their are dozens that are full of horrible untrue history used to market the whole thing as some kind of Little guy takes on big samuari and wins stuff.

Read as much as you can, use your brain as well....if it seems really "Fantastic" then its probably a marketing story made up after ww2 to push Karate as being peasent vs samuari or some crazy stuff that was made up by an unhinged guy teaching Red Dragon Kung fu that is 10,000 years old...think about that one a second and see if you can see the flaw.

History is important and fun, but training is the single most important part of your practice.

[ps1]

Read as much as you can, use your brain as well....if it seems really "Fantastic" then its probably a marketing story made up after ww2 to push Karate as being peasent vs samuari or some crazy stuff that was made up by an unhinged guy teaching Red Dragon Kung fu that is 10,000 years old...think about that one a second and see if you can see the flaw.

History is important and fun, but training is the single most important part of your practice.

Um... I'm pretty sure I remember my Hx books saying that Red Dragon Kung Fu was the predominant form of combat during the mesolithic period. It was so effective that it was used as the basis of developing agriculture and hunting reindeer.

[kensei]

Um... I'm pretty sure I remember my Hx books saying that Red Dragon Kung Fu was the predominant form of combat during the mesolithic period. It was so effective that it was used as the basis of developing agriculture and hunting reindeer.