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FIrst time practising kicks from a DVD seeries I bought. Did not at all do any punches or other arm strike. Yetsterday I did a series of 10s from the most common leg strikes. Afterwards not only were my arms so tired but I been getting pinched nerves from last night all the way to today...

Since someone else asked last year why despite the British often seeing kicking as ungentlemanly and bashing Savate for being a kick based style (esp before boxing was added in in predecessor styles like Chausson)........ French wrestling was primarily Greco-Roman arm-based with no leg moves...

This is nonesense for one reason..... Dd you know Amateur Muay Thai actually use padded elbows and knees, and some at loer levels of skill esp among minors even forbid knees and elbows? So it has nothing to do with Thaii pried or keepnig tradition considering even some regional tournaments...

I am extremely curious about this. Before MMA (and perhaps local Brazillian Vale Tudo and other close equivalents to UFC in Japan), MT was renown for being the most "complete" martial sports. Boxing banned kicks and every other handstrikes (and even the types of punches you can use is limited)...

One of the cliches is that to defeat a boxer, you simply attack his legs since they are quite weak. Especially with kicks (which boxers are often seen as being terrible at taking). Indeed I seen enough kickboxing vs boxer and MMA vs boxer at the professional level , and old school hardcore...

Guess what? None of the stuff I say s heresy at all...... Because you are assuming am a typical Atheist Anglo Saxon. I'm actually Polish and believe me hen my people before me who lived in Europe before my American generation VISITED ITALY frequently as part of Polish traditiion often by...

Started going into kickboxing and the mall strip school I go to while focusing on K1 Rules, there are lots of instructors from different styles because the primary intent is for gradual adaptation for MMA and Self-Defense (as the school has had a few local champions in MMA across the state and...

Except Quatrocchi's stuff are not ramblings he mad up but basic stuff so common in non-American Catholicism (esp back in conservative parts of the Church such as Italy and Latin America). Have you seen how much Michael the Archangel is invoked upon by Hispanic police in crime filled ghettos and...

I read that old bare knuckle boxers rarely suffered hand fractures because they punched vertically instead of the horizontal punches today. In addition many existing martial arts such as Wing Chun punch vertically exactly for the reason to prevent injuries to the hand. However I tried hitting a...

I just got a book by mail The Sicilian Blade by Vito Quattrochi. Quattorchi's main specialization isn't martial arts but occultism. Specifically Catholic devotions. His most famous book is Benedicaria: Magical Catholicism which is basically about local Italian magick all revolving around the...

Saving Private Ryan's infamous knife fight scene has a German soldier win the clinch fight simply because he overpowers the Ranger guy and with terrifying bloodthirsty patience he simply waits for the knife to slowly push through until it enters through the Ranger's chest. And I must add the...

As a someone who just started exploring Savate, a common meme I notice across internet articles and historical texts is not only just how ingrained was the Boxing vs Savate is in nationalistic rivalries esp France VS Britain.......... But it becomes a reflection of kicks vs punches and later on...

Notice this true be it the Samurai Kanabo, Indian Club exercise tools, and pretty any club/bat weapon. Why is this? Can someone explain from a physical mechanism terms what makes the standard baseball grip more effective?

I was watching dramatization of Brazillian Soccer legend Pele's life and when he was growing up and playing in the amateur leagues, sometime during his ten years he gt exposed tot he Brazillian martial art Capoeira. He was told by one of his friends the team that some professional soccer players...

A post on Quora claims the non-fighting specific way to practise one-handed sword techniques is to play Tennis since so much of the basic swings are very similar to cutting techniques in swordsmanship with one-hand swords. Is the in anyway accurate? I just started practising tennis and never...

I just finished reading Marc MacYoung's Writing Violence ebooks from Amazon Kindle and in his knife volume he points out most knives lack the necessary elements to puncture a rib directly or pierce most areas of the skull. Instead what you'd want to do when attacking the rib cage is to turn your...

There's two extremes I notice when it comes to armour. There is the one extreme where armour is portrayed as being bulky and hard to move in such as the knights armour. And there is the other extreme where since armour was made to fit person for persona and to be distributed evenly so that even...

Saw this post. Can you practise sword tecniques using Indian Clubs/Clubbells/Weighted Exercise Bats/Macebells/heavy sticks/steel pipes and other such similar objects? : wma So now I'm considering buying Indian Clubs and a macebell. Can they be used for sword, staff, and a bunch of other...

Post I saw. How come duel blade combinations don't have the longer weapon with the front arm and the shorter blade with the dominant arm? In particular with rapier and dagger? The OP's statement about using the longer hand with offhand as a jabbing weapon and rear hand using a shorter weapon...

First of all you aren't taking inflation into account. Secondly you also miss the fact that poor people can afford martial arts training. Which is why the Chinese proverb is nonsense. Because not all poor people are dirt poor enough they couldn't afford to eat 3 healthy meals a day and have lots...

Nonsense. Esp since a lot of the best martial artists historically were street fighters and a lot of styles were created on the fly from street experience. In addition you also forget some masters offered lessons for free and some cultures like Sengoku period of Japan's specific clans were so...

Wrong, it was a response to this link. Karate Myth Busting: The Secret Truth About Peasants and Karate Whatchat think?

Here is the specific article the OP quotes in the reddit link. Karate Myth Busting: The Secret Truth About Peasants and Karate

I found this post. Why is there now a narrative that it was only aristocrats who could practise Karate? : karate Indeed I wonder why are so many so-called experts and historians on the martial arts now changing the narrative? I mean as I said it one can simply go on fighting at the bar to...

Saving Private Ryan's infamous knife fight scene has a German soldier win the clinch fight simply because he overpowers the Ranger guy and with terrifying bloodthirsty patience he simply waits for the knife to slowly push through until it enters through the Ranger's chest. And I must add the...

For years the internet has taken John Clements belief that edge to edge parrying and blocking is BS because it damages the sword and its better to block with the flat of the sword because the sword gets damaged. Frequently pointed out is how Japanese styles use flat blocks rather than edge to...

The art of Kanabojutsu (which uses far heavier than your typical MLB League Baseball Bat) disproves your whole claim.

I'm watching High School of the Dead and I just watched Train to Busan. In both zombie apocalypse work, the more preferred weapon by the heroes is the baseball bat and most bystanders are using broomsticks, wrenches, crowbars, and one handed heavy clubs and sticks and other boring weapons. The...

I meant he was teaching the self defense version of TKD. Not RBSD specifically. Even military TKD doesn't have high jump kicks and rely far more on punching and kneeing than kicking.

I already posted this once but since the last time did not generate much discussion and it was ignored, and since I really find this topic intriguing, I will post it again. As seen all the time on reddit's martial arts section and other various fighting forums, people are always arguing style...