Official IWS Traditional Martial Arts Thread

[SPX]

I think the moral of the story here is that practice makes perfect and that the more a motion is performed, the more small subtle tweaks are made and these tweaks are committed to muscle memory. Over time you get better and better at automatically incorporating all these things your mind/body have learned into a single action (on this case a punch).

The issue at hand is karate punches, but the same principle no doubt applies to any other kind of punch or even something like swinging a tennis racket.

But I do agree that it would be an interesting study to test veterans against guys with just a few years in the game.

[SPX]

Interesting response on another forum regarding this article:

Similar to how they explained small people lifting heavy objects...your brain determines how much of your muscle fibers are activated.

Same thing goes here. It's the adaptive process the body goes through. The more you punch, the stronger those neuro-pathways will be that are used for punching. You'll also gain bone density in striking contacts.

This is just affirming what most already knew.

[SPX]

Mildly humorous:

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Hey Ludo . . . trailer for a new Wing Chun documentary . . .

[Ludo]

I'll definitely have to check that out if I can find it.

[SPX]

You can find it here:

http://emptymindfilms.com/

If you click Watch Now at the top you can stream it for $3.99. I actually watched The Empty Mind on there last night. I also want to watch A Boy in China, Art of the Japanese Sword and Chen Village.

I have talked to the filmmaker and he is legit.

[SPX]

Hmm . . . well all right. . .

http://middleeasy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8908:anderson-silva-wants-to-compete-in-tae-kwon-do-at-the-2016-olympics-in-rio&catid=34:organizations

[SPX]

Nice Article on the Re-emergence of TMAs in MMA:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1119563-the-east-resurgent-why-karate-taekwondo-and-judo-are-making-a-comeback-in-mma

[SPX]

Daido Juku / Kudo guy testing for 2nd Dan.

Cool vid. Brutal exchange starting at about 5:20.

[SPX]

I'll just assume no one will be interested in this, but in case I'm wrong the WKF World Karate Championships will be streaming live from the 21st to the 25th on the following channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/WKFKarateWorldChamps

In case anyone IS interested, but uninformed, you can find the rules here:

http://www.wkf.net/images/downloads/KATA%20and%20KUMITE%20COMPETITION%20RULES%207_1.pdf

[SPX]

Campaign to get Karate into the Olympics. . .

http://www.thekisontheway.com/

[rodulph]

Most arts were, though. Also, if you do some research, I bet you'll find that MT a couple of hundred years ago only somewhat resembled the MT of today's modern ring sport. If you watch one of the Tony Jaa movies--can't remember which one--he does what looks like a kata with really low stances. That's old school, but that's the way it was done until recently.

[SPX]

I'm making a little short documentary for my film class about an instructor at a Shotokan school I've been checking out. I'll post it in a couple of days if anyone's interested.

I also went up there tonight for a sparring class that they do. It was actually pretty cool. I'm a really shitty fighter. But it was fun. I think I might join up.