The first rule of  fight club is you do not talk about fight club… the legendary dialogue from the movie Fight Club. Hollywood has made some  really cool and awesome movies on Mixed Martial Arts… Fight Club, Never Back Down, Red Belt, each of these leave one awe struck!

All the awesome workout sessions, your head automatically has the Rocky Balboa, “Eye of the Tiger,” playing…  Shootfighters have all of these amazing training sessions, that would transport you to any one of these flicks… strengthening exercises, conditioning, free- running… all of that you can ask for!

But there is a catch! When it comes to Shootfighters, there is more than what meets the eye… there is always something new and exciting to be offered by Shootfighters… While speaking of MMA, we have, taken this term very seriously and to the point!

Ashwin has been practising martial arts for over 2 decades now… and these arts range from Karate, Kickboxing, Brazilian Jujutsu, a bit of Sambo, Taekwondo, Aikido, Jujutsu, Kalaripayattu, Tamil Kalaripayattu, Wing-Tsun, Kenjutsu, Garadi, Vajramushti, Judo, Tai Chi, Baghuazhang, Various types of Kung Fu- Eagle Claw, Tiger, Snake and a bit of Manthis… and each of these forms have been blended in Shootfighters…

This unique blend makes the classes, complete fun and totally exciting. Martial Arts has a huge history, and there are wide array of arts… each place has adapted and taken an art form to suit their own needs and requirements. Thus, the existence of this melting pot of so to say, martial arts under one roof… makes it a complete martial treat!

“One needs to enjoy what they teach… and I would personally find only striking pretty boring… after sometime plain old kickboxing without grappling, take-downs… gets very boring. It is not even practical in a real fight, where you are grabbed, pushed, clawed, slapped. Also, in most cases, you are up against more than one opponent… where one person does the hitting, while the others do the holding.” Says Ashwin.

Hmmm, only strikes and kicks seem like so much of a constriction here… one needs to know different techniques and ways to get out of any attack situation. Shootfighters Inc, takes in all the useful martial arts and makes it a part of their course curriculum.

Sounds fun right! Different martial arts, being blended and taught with some really cool moves… but behind all of this is a serious effort made, with tremendous hard work, and passion for Martial arts.

Ashwin has been in constant touch with different people in the world of Martial art, making friends, getting to know their art forms. Many masters do not teach you some art forms that easily… they need to know whether one can handle it. Ashwin had to go through years of patient waiting before he was introduced into numerous arts.

“It is a complete course you need to go through, most teachers do not teach you what part you want and leave the rest… you need to wait it out patiently and get the useful information out. Every martial art has some very useful and amazing techniques, and some may not work.”

With real-time experience of numerous fights, Ashwin knows that one needs to have a multitude of techniques that work.

“My instructors like Siddarth are very good fighters, because they have only learnt techniques that work and nothing else.” Adds Ashwin.

The most tough to capture have been the Indian Martial Arts… these seem to be very well hidden and shrouded, many have been lost and left only to a chosen few., as they need to make sure whether one can wield the power given by the arts.

The organization is doing a lot to preserve and document lesser known Indian martial arts such as Garadi, Vajramushti, Varmakalai, Silammbam so that they don’t die out entirely.

“I had this curiosity to understand and know, why an agriculture based civilization would need Martial Arts. Hunters and gatherers, it is understandable, but Indus Valley Civilization, the first civilization to develop a deep cultural setup of Martial arts was something I wanted to learn about.” Says Ashwin.

The great sages of India like Agastyar, Thirumular, Boghanathar… all of them have made huge contributions to Martial Arts, also incidentally the word ‘Chi‘ is derived from Chivaya (a tamil way of saying Shiva). The insights provided by them in Martial arts is very profound and deep. It set a base for the growth of martial arts all over the world.

“Martial arts, is about being strong, self-defence and all of that… but then there is more to Martial arts… it has a deeper ethereal meaning. When many students had signed up for self-defence or fitness, they continued classes even after achieving fitness and self-defence. Out of sheer curiosity I enquired, and found out that they felt a sense of achievement and strong confidence while be a part of our classes.” Says Ashwin.

Thus, martial arts works directly on the mind of the person, which in turn reflects in the body. “Martial arts is like Kundalini Yoga, where the aim is to achieve enlightenment, thus sages like Agastyar practised the arts. In order to see a mental change, physical vigour need to be done, once there is a mental change it is seen in the spirit… all of them are interconnected. “ Adds Ashwin.

The best part about these arts are, they are very nicely blended and gelled in to make a perfect school for martial arts- Independent Shootfighters Inc.

TaeKwonDo stammt aus Korea und exisitiert in seiner Struktur als Kampfkunst bereits seit über 2000 Jahren und stellt in etwa das koreanische Äquivalent zum japanischen Karate dar, wobei es wesentlich schneller und dynamischer sowie mit einer stärkeren Betonung auf Fußtechniken arbeitet. Frei übersetzt bedeutet es etwa der geistige Weg (Do) von der Anwendung von Faust (Kwon) und Fuß (Tae) und stellt für Anfänger eine enorme physische sowie psychische Anstrengung dar, da es über sehr harte Trainingsstrukturen bzw. Drill begleitet von einem sehr starken zeremoniellen Anteil verfügt. Zudem werden sämtliche Trainingskommandos von dem Meister bzw. Großmeister, dem es absoluten Respekt zu erweisen gilt, nur auf koreanisch gegeben. Vor 3 Jahren zu seligen Oberstufenzeiten begann ich in der mitlerweile geschlossenen Bad Driburger Kampfsportakademie Lee mit dem Taekwondo-Training und habe mich bis zum zweiten Schülergrad, dem 8. Kup vorgearbeitet (“gelber Gürtel”) um es dann zu Zivildienstzeiten wieder aufzugeben, morgen werde ich in Paderborn eine Probestunde in einer ausschließlichen Taekwondo-Schule bei einem Großmeister mit dem 6. Dan beginnen, da es mich wieder reizt einer herausfordernden Sportart mit Wettbewerbscharakter nachzugehen.

The President displays his skills in the Korean martial art of taekwondo at the presidential office in Seoul. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak gave him a taekwondo uniform and black belt as a gift during his visit to the office for summit talks.

Jak co roku, jesienią w Warszawie, ponownie na AWF, dzieje się Międzynarodowy turniej Taekwondo Olimpijskiego WTF. Kilka obrazków z otwarcia – finały i niektóre walki – w wielkim skrócie. W turnieju brali udział zawodnicy ze Szwecji, Estonii, Białorusi, Łotwy, Litwy, Węgier i oczywiście z Polski.

Please visit our special Video Page for Grace Martial Arts Videos. We just added it this weekend. You’ll find links to videos produced for students of Grace Martial Arts Florida and other Christian groups. We pray these videos will be a blessing to you as you train mind, body and spirit.

Blessings!

Mark McGee

Grace Martial Arts

El Taekwondo tiene sus raíces en el Taekkyeon, un arte marcial tradicional, que se originó en los tiempos tribales de Corea. El Taekkyeon se ha conocido bajo diferentes nombres durante siglos, pero comenzó a desarrollarse rápidamente durante el período de los Tres Reinos (que duró desde el siglo IV al VII, cuando los reinos de Goguryeo, Silla y Baekje estaban en continua lucha para dominar la península coreana). Luego, el Taekkyeon se difundió y evolucionó, durante el período de Goryeo (d.C 918-1392), la época en que los que practicaban artes marciales eran muy respetados. En aquellos tiempos, las técnicas del Taekkyeon que poseían los cuerpos militares, eran motivo de ascenso de rango. Pero con la llegada de la época de Joseon (d.C 1392 – 1910), la situación cambió completamente con la introducción de las espadas, y ésto hizo que, lentament,e disminuyera la popularidad del Taekkyeon. Hoy en día, el Taekwondo, como una variante del Taekkyeon, es amado como un deporte a nivel mundial, como resultado del esmerado esfuerzo de muchos.La razón por la cual el Taekwondo pudo llegar al éxito, en los tiempos modernos, como un deporte de competición (comparado con otros artes marciales), puede atribuirse al hecho de que, tradicionalmente, ha habido un acentuado aspecto competitivo en la cultura de las artes marciales coreanas.

figuras el antiguo reino de Sila (57 a.C.- 935 d.C)

El Taekwondo es un arte marcial – deporte de ataque y defensa sin armas. El principio dell Taekwondo es el entrenamiento del cuerpo y la mente, para aquellos que les interese aprender este arte marcial, el Taekwondo tiene cuatro características diferentes: Primero, Taekwondo como ejercicio físico. El Taekwondo es un excelente ejercicio físico tanto para los niños en crecimiento como para los adultos que desean mejorar su resistencia física. Los movimientos de Taekwondo requieren movimientos de las articulaciones del cuerpo para mantener un cuerpo más ágil. Las patadas, los golpes y los gritos del Taekwondo serán una gran ayuda para el estrés. Segundo, el Taekwondo como arte marcial sin armas. En el Taekwondo no se usan ningún tipo de armas de ataque, lo que difiere de otras artes marciales ya que utiliza diferentes movimientos de las piernas, la elasticidad y sincronzación son fundamentales para esta ejecución, lo que permitió convertirse en un arte marcial muy popular mundialmente. Los ataques en el Taekwondo son ágiles, agresivos, muy rapidos y sucesivos, pero al mismo tiempo, se concentra más en el aspecto de la defensa. Este es uno de los muchos aspectos positivos que ha encontrado la gente actual que desea aprender el Taekwondo como técnica de defensa personal y de esta forma sentirse seguro ante una sociedad tan competitiva. Tercero, el Taekwondo como deporte. El Taekwondo se ubica en la categoría de competencia oficial de los principales eventos deportivos internacionales como en los Juegos Olímpicos, Juegos Panam, Juegos Asiáticos, Juegos All Americans y Juegos Sudamericanos. En las competencias de Taekwondo se utilizan equipos de seguridad y reglas de ataques y defensas para disminuir al máximo los posibles daños. De esta forma, los competidores de este arte marcial puede disfrutrar el encanto de las competencias con menos riesgos.

cuarto, el Taekwondo como método de educación

El Taekwondo ejercita el cuerpo, pero también es muy eficaz para el desarrollo de la mente. El objetivo del aprendizaje del Taekwondo es para fomentar el desarrollo físico y espiritual para la formación de un ser humano más maduro. Las disciplinas del Taekwondo incluyen lecciones de ética junto con técnicas de ataque y defensa para formar una personalidad digna

Gonzalo Villar

monitorpersonal@hotmail.es

On his visit to South Korea, President Obama was presented with an honorary taekwondo belt.

News

• The Senate will take a first vote on health care on Saturday.
• Oprah’s ending her talk show in 2011.

Politics

• Mike Huckabee shows his civility and class–I like Mike, even if I don’t always agree with him.

Sports

• Thierry Henry says that a replay would be fair.

As previously mentioned for Taegeuk Yuk Jang, it has retreating movements. I am enjoying learning these. The art of stepping back.

There is also a great series of movements translated as repulsing monkeys which I started to learn in Scotland. They are part of the Tai Chi Beijing Short Form (24 movements). Its nice to visualize problems as monkeys to be repulsed. As well as stepping back, there is a firm but gentle pushing movement whilst you retreat.

Beautiful !

Interessanter Bericht unter:

http://www.tcc-friedrichshafen.de/de/news/beitraege/2009/rsz-kaderathlet-steht-im-finale-der-croatian-open.php

Practicing taekwondo for over 15 years now. wondering what’s next. don’t believe it anymore. teaching something I don’t believe no more is… what?

El pasado curso tuvimos la experiencia de conocernos, en el cuál tuve la oportunidad de evaluar vuestras facultades físicas y he de manifestar mi gran satisfacción. En este nuevo curso mi único deseo es enseñaros y motivaros para que asimiléis una rápida progresión en un ambiente sano y deportivo, donde el respeto hacia el profesor y a vuestros compañeros sea la base para conseguir buenos resultados.Así pues os espero de nuevo a partir del próximo mes de octubre.

sugerencias:

g.villar@cdesclavas.com

Liga mondiala de taekwondo WTF este numele structurii care organizeaza intalniri profesioniste intre sportivi de top din aceasta ramura a artelor martiale. Primul eveniment de acest gen tocmai s-a incheiat in Mexic. La eveniment au participat 16 sportivi castigatori de medalii mondiale si continentale, in patru categorii de greutate. Toti participantii au primit bani in functie de locul ocupat la sfarsitul competitiei, locul I fiind recompensat cu 20.000 de dolari. Competitia a inregistrat si o surpriza, favoritul Steven Lopez, care tocmai castigase pentru a cincea oara titlul mondial, a fost facut KO in finala categoriei -80 kg de tanarul Aaron Cooke (18 ani).

Save the date: Sunday December 13, 1 pm to 5 pm. Redwood Dojo will be hosting a party, student demo, and book signing at the Redwood Heights Community Center. All students (all ages and levels) should plan to take part, and everyone is invited– friends, family and members of the community. In addition to the martial arts demonstration, there will be refreshments, door prizes, and other fun & games. Mark your calendar; plan to be there, and bring your friends!

The demo: We’ll be working out the details of the martial arts student demonstration over the next couple of weeks. A schedule of events will be published here closer to the date. The demo will include brief performances by students of all ages and levels, from “pre-Karate” up through black belt adults. Members of the teen and adult classes will show board breaking, mat work, and a black belt self-defense demonstration, among other things.

The book signing: This party is in part a “book launch party” for The Kids’ Karate Workbook: A Take-Home Training Guide for Young Martial Artists. Many of you are familiar with The Cuong Nhu Training Manual for Kids and Their Parents, by Didi Goodman and Linda Nikaya; this is the “national edition” that grew out of that project. It was released in October by North Atlantic/Blue Snake (distributed by Random House) and is available worldwide. Copies of both books will be available at the party for a special price (and there will be books as door prizes, too!). Author, illustrator, and many of the kids who posed for the illustrations will be present to sign your copy.

The new book is suitable not just for Cuong Nhu kids, but for any young person studying a karate style or Taekwondo– so it makes a great gift for cousins, nieces and nephews, and friends who aren’t lucky enough to be enrolled at Redwood Dojo. Read more about the book here.

Congratulations to New Brown Belts

Cris Woroch and Morgan Gillis were promoted to brown belt on Tuesday, October 27, after a rigorous test given by a panel of five instructors at Redwood Dojo. To any photographers present at the test: Please send me the link to your photos.

Phillip Davis was promoted to Brown Belt on Friday, November 13, alongside five other teen candidates from Rohai Dojo. He traveled to Berkeley to take the 3-hour test. Click here to see Linda Nikaya’s photos from the test. (…And in case you’re wondering, Phillip broke three boards with a downward hammerfist, right after the camera took that shot.)

Take this poll: Should all student rank promotions be listed and recognized on this site, from peewee through black belt?

O atleta de Blumenau (SC), Heriberto Ratti de 22 anos, disputou a final do campeonato brasileiro de Taekwondo do estilo Songahm, e ganhou em 1° lugar na modalidade Sparring (luta) e 3° lugar em Fórmula (apresentação de movimentos) que ocorreu esse sábado em Balneário Camboriú dia 14/10.
No domingo, disputou o Sul Americano e também tirou em 1° lugar em Sparring e 2° lugar em Fórmula.

No mês passado, ele foi destaque em Orlando (EUA), esteve na Disney’s Wide World of Sports onde participou do torneio nacional de Taekwondo, obtendo 3ª colocação em Sparring.

Ratti é faixa preta 3° Dan, treina desde 2000, é penta campeão brasileiro e campeão mundial na categoria Sparring e Fórmula, hoje conta com o apoio da Fundação Municipal de Esportes de Balneário Camboriú, da BZM Impulsores de Partida e da FESPORTE.

Agora ele está classificado para o torneio Sul Americano na Argentina em 2010.

Segue abaixo sua entrevista na BAND a respeito do mundial que ocorreu em Junho deste ano:

Tratto da Cubia n° 95 – Ottobre 2009

Da sabato 25 a domenica 27 Settembre, grazie a Davide Berti, presidente del comitato Emilia Romagna della federazione italiana taekwondo, e con l’aiuto di tutte le società della regione, Cattolica ha ospitato al parco delle Navi il corso di aggiornamento insegnanti tecnici del nord Italia.

Oltre 140 maestri hanno seguito le lezioni di: traumatologia, aggiornamento regolamenti sportivi, aggiornamenti tecniche, preparazione atletica, attività giovanile, alimentazione psicologica sportiva ecc.

Erano presenti tutti i migliori docenti della federazione: tra gli altri, il campione mondiale di forme Andrea Notaro, il maestro Park Young Ghil – referente word taekwondo federation e fratello del vice presidente federazione mondiale -,il maestro Yoon – direttore tecnico nazionale italiana – e gli olimpionici Carlo Molfetta e Leonardo Basile.

Nella giornata di domenica, presso il palazzetto dello sport, si sono svolti gli esami per i passaggio di grado dal 4° al 7° dan e per le qualifiche di allenatore, istruttore e maestro.

Per le società cattolichina hanno partecipato all’aggiornamento Livi Luigi, Merli Mauro, Berti Davide, Baldassarre Vitiello, mentre sono stati promossi, sostenendo l’esame di qualifica pratico e teorico, Martelli Luciano, Semproli Matteo e Bertuccioli Michele.

Sempre domenica 27 la società cattolichina ha partecipato alla festa dello sport, esibendosi in una dimostrazione che ha evidenziato le varie attività: allenamento bambini, difesa personale, combattimento sportivo, rotture di tavolette e altre prove di abilità atletica e tecnica.

Have found a series of  posts about “body sense”, partly following a conversation on Tom Haskins post, I am not really familiar with the psychology yet and trying to get my head around the interaction of sensations, emotions. Both Tom and minh were extremely helpful in their descriptions of how we learn.

Body sense appears to be about reconnecting to your body, increasing your awareness of what is happening.

Body sense is the ability to pay attention to ourselves, to feel our sensations, emotions, and movements on-line, in the present moment, without the mediating influence of judgmental thoughts…

The body sense is more technically called embodied self-awareness. It is composed of sensations like warm, tingly, soft, nauseated, dizzy; emotions such as happy, sad, threatened; and other body senses like feeling the coordination (or lack of coordination) between the arms and legs while swimming, or sensing our shape and size (fat or thin), and sensing our location relative to objects and other people. Thoughts about the self are called conceptual self-awareness. The table below gives a summary of the differences.

Conceptual Self-Awareness

• Based in language
• Rational, explanatory
• Abstract

Embodied Self-Awareness

• Based in sensing, feeling, and acting
• Spontaneous, open to change
• Concrete, in the moment

The series also looks at eating, exercise both with and without mirrors, body image etc. I find this interesting in relation to taekwondo. Out of the three dojang sessions I do weekly, one is with mirrors. This can be very helpful, because when someone is explaining that you are doing something wrong and they demonstrate it and you get it wrong again, if you can see what you are doing in the mirror, you have a better understanding – possibly ..it is easy to get distracted by your image in the mirror although in a dobok – less so.

I guess if men or women are in a gym with mirrors and wearing tighter fitting clothing you naturally become more self conscious. I’m not sure how much difference it makes – I haven’t trained in a gym for a few years and from what I remember, if I was in a good mood to try and exercise which made me concentrate or a really bad mood and concentrated in order to snap out of it, then I didn’t notice the mirror so much. Some of it, like a treadmill where you can be staring into a mirror can work both ways, either your mind drifts to other things because of the monotony – you stare through it, or it can be distracting.

It also depends, if a work or personal situation is on your mind, then it is more difficult to focus anyway, so seeing yourself in the mirror exercising hard may be less than helpful, unless you are an olympic athlete or similar ! Maybe if conceptual self-awareness does exist, then you are more likely to drift back to conceptual in those circumstances.

One of the benefits of martial arts training in the dojang is that there are others around, very fast paced and variety of activities and you are training to develop balance, focus, co-ordination. In terms of general fitness, I dislike running in gyms, you cannot replicate the wind, rain, unexpected changes in the environment as you run around either streets or fields, I feel so much better when I have run outdoors.

Time and budget permitting, I’m thinking about starting video series soon – taking some fitness gadgets for a spin, in both running and martial arts training. Heart rate monitors have been around for a long time, then Nike and others looked at tracking in trainers,  now in 2009 there are gadgets like Fitbit*, Apple and Nokia both releasing or partnering with others, GymTechnik etc

Does any of this make any positive difference to how we perceive the benefits to our body / exercise or are they a physical distraction in themselves?

I’m not convinced right now, I am very happy with how I currently train for martial arts without wearing any digital technology. I don’t record anything formally other than documenting the 33 days on this blog earlier in the year and I don’t have plans to do anything more detailed. This will also be alongside continuing a deeper exploration into chi, internal martial arts and eastern philosophy.

In the meantime:

This has been an interesting week. I’ve had a sore throat the whole time, and with the exception of yesterday, it seemed to be just that: a sore throat. I’m wondering now if I’m actually sick or not, but that’s just one of the many things that have been going wrong this week.

During Monday’s TKD practice, my left hip and gluteus muscle started to bother me. I’d bruised it the previous week when I fell off my bike because I couldn’t unclip my foot fast enough. It made kicking at full speed difficult, so I sat out most of practice and helped a beginner white belt instead. It was only his second class, so that was probably pretty useful for him to get the personal attention. Still, I need to get healthy and training hard. Roughly 180 days to my second degree test.

Wednesday I went camping with Josh and Stacey, which ended up being a lot of fun, though cold. The hike was actually easier than I thought it would be, and we kept a pretty good pace the whole way. 5 miles up 3,000 feet of elevation, which I thought would take roughly 4-5 hours, but we did it in under 3. The view from the top of Mt. Garfield was beautiful, as always, and we had the Garfield Ridge Campsite to ourselves. It got dark early, and we were in the tent by 7 pm. The cold kept us in there for probably 14 hours, since there was no rush to get back the next day. The hike down was pleasant, and in general, the weather during the day was a really good temperature for hiking (low 40s). I look forward to the next time I can get up to the Whites again.

Thursday, after I got back, I had another TKD practice. I debated about going, as I was very tired, but decided I should go. Cartney lead class and I helped teach a bit too. We covered a lot of spinning kicks, in particular the jump turning roundhouse. My left leg in particular needs a lot of work on this, and I also need to be careful about that left hip now, like on Monday. I’ve decided to start working on flexibility more actively, so last night I spent about 45 minutes stretching and building strength to do high kicks again. No plans to exercise today, as I still don’t feel great. Master Park will be teaching class tomorrow, so hopefully I’ll be up for that. Tea and food helped me feel better yesterday, so hopefully this will gradually get better.

Once this semester of teaching winds down, I am looking to rejoin my martial arts school as well as wrap up my Headline Games (http://www.headlinegames.com) project.  I am hoping to use my blog to show you the process I took to implement my game project as well as my journey to finally get my black belt (have have been training in various martial arts since I was 10 as well as competed and won first place in weapons but have never took my black belt test)

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