History of Martial Arts & the 2009 International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition
July 19, 2011 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
Peterborough Martial Arts Videos
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DVDs are a great way to have training on tap to back up your normal weekly training and a chance to see how other instructors do forms or interpret movements. You should also try to expand your knowledge and experience in your art and also get to know about other people’s art so you understand what is out there.
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YiQuan – Chinese martial art – Trailer by Imagin’ Arts Tv
June 9, 2011 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
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3 shorts clips of tour new documentary Discover a rarely seen and misunderstood chinese martial art – Yi Quan : the art of the intention. Featuring the legendary master Cui Rui Bin Hosted by the martial artist and director Lionel Froidure To order the full length documentary go to www.IMAGINARTS.tv Available now – Worldwide
DVDs are a great way to have training on tap to back up your normal weekly training and a chance to see how other instructors do forms or interpret movements. You should also try to expand your knowledge and experience in your art and also get to know about other people’s art so you understand what is out there.
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New Qi Kwan Do Club In Stanground
March 20, 2011 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
Qi Kwan Do Black Belt Schools have now opened a club for all ages at Stanground College Sports Centre on Monday Evening 6pm to 7pm. All Programs, All Ages. See contact details below:
From their website:
What Is Qi Kwan Do?
A martial art and practical self-defence system
It’s perhaps the most practical and true self-defence system ever devised. Most street attacks are sudden and violent in their nature and there is little time for conscious thought or margin for error. Students learn to react automatically with conditioned responses that are rapid, accurate and executed without hesitation.
Every Technique in Qi Kwan Do is based on realistic self defence, in a real fight situation and to knock an opponent down in one strike. Some of the Qi Kwan Do techniques may not look as flashy as seen in the movies but they are all carefully designed and structured to be practical for people at any age and are realistic self defence techniques.
Master Parisi has devised Qi Kwan Do based on three concepts:
- Movements must be natural, easy to learn and easy to remember;
- Movements must flow, with a circular motion in every punch and kick that uses the body’s movement to focus energy;
- Movements must be practiced repeatedly under gradually more realistic conditions.
Qi Kwan Do movements differ from those of other martial arts as it uses:
- Defensive stances , which are better for mobility and the ability to put body weight into a movement for optimum power
- Economy of motion , which is achieved by keeping the hands up in a defensive position, not on the hip or crossed;
- Flowing movements , so that all Qi Kwan Do movements flow into one another naturally without wasted motion.
Qi Kwan Do is all about the Martial Art and Self Defence Programme
- NO Politics
- NO Greed
- NO Ego’s
- NO Lies
CONTACT:
Instructor Mr Gary Coles
Tel: 07748 683827
mr.coles@qikwando.com
Website: http://www.qikwando.com/
Stanground College Sports Centre
Peterborough Road
Peterborough
PE7 3BY
England
Monday Evening 6pm to 7pm.
All Programs, All Ages
Martial Arts Myths 10 of 12
January 21, 2011 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
The Hits and Myths of Martial Arts – Myth 10
by
Chris Hepler and Jennifer Brandes
A Role Playing Games Perspective
Myth 10: You can mash someone’s nose bones into their brain and kill them with a single mighty palm strike.
This would require some serious “mighty” or supernatural help. It’s theoretically possible to pull this off, but it’s quite a trick. The palm-heel is a powerful strike that can really knock someone off their feet. The palm can take a lot of impact and conforms nicely to the face, even if the opponent is very tall.
But the nose is mostly cartilage, not bone. Cartilage is reasonably squishy, so if you were to get it moving as a solid piece, you’d have to hit faster than the cartilage could compress (pretty darn fast). At that point, you’d have to break off bits of the bony septum just above it, and knock them through two little holes in the skull (veins and nasal passages) and into their frontal lobes. The frontal lobes, of course, control mostly higher thought processes. You can blow off the front of your face and frontal lobes with a shotgun under your chin, and still not die for a few minutes. If you want the fun stuff that shuts off heart functioning, you’d do a lot better to take out the back of the head, around the base of the skull.
Other Myths…
1. Taking a martial art is the same as knowing how to fight.
2. Self-defense is the same thing as fighting.
3. My martial art can make you unbeatable.
4. There’s no difference between “fighting” or “kicking butt” and killing or maiming people.
5. Fights last ten minutes or more, at which time the hero can make an impressive comeback.
6. A fight only concerns the combatants.
7. Martial artists don’t need or use weapons.
8. Fighting with two weapons is difficult or confusing.
9. Weapons are heavy.
10. You can mash someone’s nose bones into their brain and kill them with a single mighty palm strike.
11. All martial arts look like Tae Kwon Do.
12. A style is a style.
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Is Your Martial Art Really Fit For Self Defence?
August 16, 2009 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
I look around the ‘sport’ martial arts in the area and see many advertise perhaps contradictory concepts – ‘fun for all the family’ and ‘great for self defence’. I have my own personal opinions on what does and doesn’t stand a chance of working (most of it starts long before any physical encounter..), but I throw this out to provoke thought!
Are you happy with one-on-one linear attack and defence to a common beat in the safety of the rules and regs of a training night – perhaps you create the scenarios to suit and fit in your particular favourite martial art techniques?
Or, do you pressure test the physical component of your art in padded up, full contact, multiple attacker, heart stopping, adrenalin driven, fear stricken mode out on the grass, concrete or a narrow alley where escape is the paramount action? Are you testing for real world scenarios – such as being mugged getting in or out of your car in dark car parks?
Take a look at what is being reported in the Evening Telegraph recently and also some CCTV that was tracking the street outside Liquid Nightclub one evening. Think how you would , or could, deal with it or avoid it.
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Published Date:
14 August 2009
By ET Staff
City leaders have united to call for an end to street violence in Peterborough after three mindless attacks in a week coincided with the release of CCTV images showing the reality of a brutal assault.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2999987001?bctid=33654800001
Violence in Peterborough
Video
The teenage victim of the CCTV attack says more young people are staying away from Peterborough city centre at night because it is “not safe anymore”.
The 19-year-old had been on an evening out in the city to celebrate Christmas with friends when he was attacked and brutally beaten by a gang of youths after leaving a nightclub.
The Dogsthorpe teenager, who has asked not to be named, confided that seeing the images of the attack in The ET would bring back painful memories he hoped never to have to relive.
But he said it was important for people to view the footage for themselves.
“People should see what goes on and the levels of violence some people will resort to just because you’ve bumped into them or something ridiculous like that,” he said.
“It was Christmas time, and I was just out having a good time with my friends, but the night ended like it did, and it’s something I’d rather forget about.
“No one’s safe any more when they go out, because more people are turning into cowards and kicking people on the floor because they can’t handle their drink.
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The couple had been on their way home from a family day trip to Skegness with their eight-year-old boy, a family friend and five other youngsters aged between one and 12, when the sickening assault was launched in Paston Ridings at about 7.30pm.
Two teenagers began shouting abuse at the family and were joined by two older men in their 20s, who set upon the main victim after he confronted them about their behaviour.
His girlfriend (35) said: “The two older men were behind him and the four of them got stuck into him at the same time. He ended up on the ground. They kicked and kicked at his head, his back and his arms, and one of them stamped on his hand so hard he left a footprint.
“They snatched a golf umbrella off my eight-year-old son and whipped him with it many times on his back. It’s covered in large, red blisters and bruises, and his ribs are also badly bruised.
“There was nothing I could do. I was screaming at one of them to leave him alone. He told me to shut up and punched me in the face. I was holding my friend’s one-year-old baby at the time.”
Her boyfriend received hospital treatment for a number of injuries, including a broken hand. He welcomed The ET’s campaign to stop the violence in Peterborough.
He said: “These people are mindless cowards. They attack in numbers, and they will do it again and again until they are caught and locked away. They need to be caught and punished.”
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Case study 2: An ordinary family were again the victims when gang violence reared its head in the city only hours after the first attack.
This time, a 43-year-old father was viciously attacked after taking a group of youths to task over lewd comments made to his two teenage daughters in Bretton Park, Peterborough.
One of the drunken attackers threw a full beer can in his face from barely six feet away, while another smashed a glass bottle over his head, leaving him stumbling around in a daze.
The 20-year-old boyfriend of one of the girls then became the focus of the gang’s fury, after stepping in to help the victim. He was knocked to the ground and subjected to a barrage of kicks and stamps to the head so severe that he was feared dead.
Fortunately, he regained consciousness and suffered no serious injuries, despite needing hospital treatment.The attack happened as the family were taking a short cut to their North Bretton home through the park shortly after midnight last Sunday, having attended a wedding nearby.
The 43-year-old, who is still recovering from his ordeal at home, said: “This violence has got to stop. They don’t seem to care about the consequences of their actions, and it won’t be long before someone is dead.”
- Police today arrested two men aged 19 and 20 in relation to this incident.
Case study 3: Exactly one week on from the second attack, another sickening incident of violence happened in frighteningly similar circumstances in the same park – this time leaving a young father in intensive care.
The 31-year-old from North Bretton, Peterborough, was taking a short cut through Bretton Park with a friend following a night out in the city centre when they were attacked by four thugs at about 3am on Sunday.
While his friend escaped with relatively minor injuries, the father-of-two was not so fortunate – as The ET revealed on Tuesday.
After apparently receiving repeated kicks and stamps to the head as he lay helpless on the ground, he suffered severe head and facial injuries, and was admitted to hospital in a critical condition.
While he remains seriously ill, the unfortunate victim mercifully appears to be making a recovery. He has been moved from intensive care at Peterborough District Hospital to the high-dependency unit, and is said to be stable. He is expected to undergo surgery this week.
A close friend said: “It’s just unbelievable to think that almost exactly the same thing has happened in the same park only a week earlier. You would think something could have been done to stop it happening again.”
Two 17-year-olds from Peterborough were arrested in connection with the attack and have since been released on police bail pending further inquiries.
Link to page: peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ItHasGotToStop.
Martial Art Grades are a Modern Phenomenon!
June 18, 2008 by goshinman · Leave a Comment
Martial Art Grades, Ranks and Coloured Belts
Many martial arts have a ranking system and those within it are familiar with beginner to most experienced master.10th kyu, 9th kyu, …, 2nd kyu, 1st kyu, 1st dan, 2nd dan, …, 10th dan. Where “kyu” and “dan” are Japanese words; Korean systems use the word “gup” instead of “kyu”. 1st dan and above normally wear black belts.
However, nowadays I do not put too much stock only in rankings and belt colour as they are VERY dependent on the art, the school, and the instructor. Some martial and related arts don’t have any belts. Some have only white and black. Some have white, brown, and black. Some have a rainbow! Some instructors hand out rank/belts like candy, others make the students work extremely hard to gain their grade. Also, a colour may represent a different kyu grade or rank across the martial arts.
Look beyond the rank or belt colour and see how long and how intensely an individual has studied, the quality of instruction they have received, and how they demonstrate their abilities.
Strangely enough, this system of kyu/dan ranking systems and belts is not steeped in history or tradition through the centuries – it is a relatively modern!
Before Jigoro Kano invented Judo, there was NO kyu/dan ranking system.
Kano invented it when he awarded “shodan” to two of his senior students (Saito and Tomita) in 1883. Even then, there was no external differentiation between yudansha (dan ranks) and mudansha (those who hadn’t yet attained dan ranking). Kano apparently began the custom of having his yudansha wear black obis in 1886. These obis weren’t the belts karateka and judoka wear today – Kano hadn’t invented the judogi (uniform) yet, and his students were still practicing in kimono. They were the wide obi still worn with formal kimono.
In 1907, Kano introduced the modern gi and its modern obi, but he still only used white and black.
Karateka in Okinawa didn’t use any sort of special uniform at all in the old days. The kyu/dan ranking system, and the modern karategi (modified judogi) were first adopted by Funakoshi in an effort to encourage karate’s acceptance by the Japanese. He awarded the first “shodan” ranks given in karate to Tokuda, Otsuka, Akiba, Shimizu, Hirose, Gima, and Kasuya on April 10, 1924.
The adoption of the kyu/dan system and the adoption of a standard uniform based on the judogi were 2 of the 4 conditions which the Dai-Nippon Butokukai required before recognizing karate as a “real” martial art. If you can find and look at old photographs of Okinawan karateka training in the early part of the 20th century, you’ll see that they were training in their everyday clothes, or even what appears to be their underwear!
Most other arts that have ranking/belt color systems adopted them from the Japanese. So inside only 100 years from conception – the world has already become awash with 8th, 9th and 10th Dans!
Malcolm
Yoshiki Goshin Jutsu
