Filipino boxing, or Panantukan, is a beautiful, creative art with a lot of exciting exercises and manipulations. So it is really fun to do! Nowadays this art is having a renaissance; you can find a lot of videos about it. My goal with this workshop is to go back to the source and see where…
In earlier times warriors were trained in the use of weapons first, and then unarmed skills followed after that. (Fighting without a weapon meant being in a very weak position. If someone found himself in that situation, he had made a big mistake.) We can call the sword the king of weapons. Not because it…
BoxingMind Workshop on 4th of April 2020 This workshop is in a way the natural progression from the last workshop (Inside Fighting and Dirty Boxing), but you can see it as an independent chapter too. It’s about situations every fighter has to deal with. It is also very much about the psychology of a fight….
Dirty Boxing and Inside Fighting Time: 18.01.2020, 10.00 – 13.00 Place: Tristyle Studio, Türkenstraße 13. , 1090, Vienna Price: 20 Euro Although boxing is a sport with strict rules, in the long and exciting history of this art many different styles have been crystallized by the many great fighters who chose to enter the ring….
The footsteps of Wing Chun come from the Shaolin Temple at the time of the Qing Dynasty – that’s where the legend begins… But where this hidden style really started to grow and get a new boost was in Foshan, and Hong Kong’s narrow alleys and on its roof tops, where the Wing Chun fighters had many duels and fights with other…
Maybe the reader would prefer “Movement As Therapy” as the title. After all, how can therapy be something which includes violence of the kind found in boxing? Maybe “Tai Chi As Therapy” has a better ring to it. Tai Chi contains beautiful, smooth, silky movements, although it is considered and accepted as a martial art…we…
The importance of a good stance cannot be overestimated. It is your stance that lets you move, while at the same time giving stability to your movements. Actually it is the root of all your actions, because you generate force from your stance. It may seem boring to practice your stance. But if you see…
Maybe you’ve been training for a while, or maybe you’re just starting to train, when this question “How best to train?” comes up. It’s good to be conscious about what you do. After all, training isn’t limited to one individual session, or even just when you’re at the gym. It is a lifelong process and…
There are various terms for the most widespread Filipino Martial Arts: Kali, Arnis, or Escrima – just to mention the most common ones. These are weapon-based arts. The Filipinos believe if you have any tool which can be used as a weapon, you should use it. They usually carry at least one knife, and they’re also very…
In that huge area we call China a very highly advanced culture has existed since many centuries BCE. This rich culture was a popular target of nomads and barbarian tribes. As we know that was the reason for construction of the Great Wall. A developed economy plus an advanced culture, and the need to protect…
