http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdd31Q9PqA Sorry that I haven’t updated this blog for a while… well, more like forever! But don’t worry, I’ve been training balls out as usual and thanks to a new full time MMA/BJJ/No-Gi gym opening up near me I’ve been getting my ass to beatings on a regular!
Archive for the ‘Martial Arts’ Category
Training
Posted: November 1, 2008 in Martial Arts, ThoughtsTags: Martial Arts, motivation, training
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Ong Bak is possibly the finest example (after a few fight scenes in the Bourne films [ie. the park bench scene with the two Police men]) of realistic applied martial arts put to film. Most of the time Jaa is fighting as if his only goal is to disable the attacker and finish the attack [...]
Looking through the ‘tags’ section of WordPress today I came across this. How To Manipulate Chi – A Secret To Martial Arts (martialartsecrets.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/how-to-manipulate-chi-a-secret-to-martial-arts) Learning to manipulate Chi and have it do what you want, when you want, how you want it, is not something that happens overnight. Many people when they learn that Chi is [...]
I noticed a good post today about someone just starting out in Aikido, Firstly, there’s frustration. Aikido is very frustrating for me. I’m not particularly good at picking up even what is going on in a technique, much less how to do it. Sure I’m just beginning. Sure this is a skill that requires development, [...]
munting around on the Interwebs at work today, I felt the need to respond to a post I saw here This is a portion of the original post: I think I finally mastered the knife disarm! Self defense seems so imprecise to me…the attacker will never be in the same exact position that you’ve practiced, [...]
Nice one Monabooks!!
Posted: April 11, 2008 in Books, Books you should read, chi kung, Martial Arts, qigong, TCMTags: Books, chi kung, Martial Arts, meditation, qigong
Apparently the Essence of Internal Martial arts books I and II are sold out. I really shouldn’t have to repeat what I said in an earlier post about the necessity of reading these, but I really think that you need them in your life! If you can brave the awful [sorry guys, but it's my [...]
This morning I got pretty aggravated by some tool that made the statement ‘We can safely say that martial arts started when Bodhidharma travelledfrom India to China and taught some emaciated Chinese Buddhist monkssome exercises to stay healthy’ This kind of thing really riles me. In my opinion the Shaolin story is full of shit, [...]
Advice: Beginning BJJ / MMA / Martial arts in general
Posted: February 15, 2008 in Martial Arts, ThoughtsLately it seems like I’ve been seeing threads pop up left and right from new grapplers who get upset at how quickly they get tapped, or who wonder how they can get better faster, or who simply think they suck. With respect, frankly its starting to get tiresome. From the Colonel over at Sherdog
Another Meditation Article
Posted: February 4, 2008 in chi kung, Martial Arts, qigong, TCM, Thoughts, ZenIn 1985, the meditation team made a video of monks drying cold, wet sheets with body heat. They also documented monks spending a winter night on a rocky ledge 15,000 feet high in the Himalayas. The sleep-out took place in February on the night of the winter full moon when temperatures reached zero degrees F. [...]
