When you do a straight punch, jab or cross (or whatever it's called in the martial art you train in), do you use a vertical or horizontal fist? Or...
Hi, I don't practise BJJ and I don't have ground fighting skills either, but I have a question, about the armbar. When you use an armbar,...
I have some minor questions / things to dicuss, so I did not want to open multiple threads for it. So here I go: -mindset. What should my...
Hi everyone, I have done 5 years of aikido and in these 5 years I have become more and more interested in martial arts, so now I want to...
greetings fellow aikidokas, half may I'll have my 4th kyu test. This means that I'm going to prepare myself for it. 6th kyu and 5th kyu was...
YouTube - Ueshiba the Archmage ? Any comments? I'm not going to say anything about this right now, I'm going to wait till I've read a few...
Lately I am having a small, very small problem when I am training aikido, but a problem that keeps coming back and kinda ruins my training a bit....
Some aikido lessons ago, we spent an entire lesson doing kokyo ho and afterwards other rechniques like irimi nage etc. with the emphasis on the...
I read on the Dutch wikipedia page something about aikido that bothers me now... The use of weapons is often used to teach the practitioner...
Okay, is there any smart person who can explain this? I had a hard time figuring it out, but now I know how this is possible! How about you?
I was just curious about this...but does anyone knows a martial art that teaches you how to headbut? I read that headbuts in muay thai were used a...
YouTube - Morihiro Saito Sensei 20 Jo Suburi YouTube - Morihiro Saito Sensei 7 Ken Suburi These 2 videos seriously helps me to do the jo and...
Nowadays, I run a few times a week. If I rune 1 time a week, I don't have any problems. but if I run 2 or 3 times a week I always have painful...
Yesterday, a friend of mine showed me a kung fu instruction dvd. I asked if I could borrow it and I could. I only watched 5 minutes yet, but I was...
Hi MAP, As you can guess i'm a new member... and I study aikido. In september I started my fifth year of aikido, so I'm not too experienced yet...
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