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  • How To Jam Power Down Your Legs In Karate Kata Heian Three
    By: Al Case | - It's odd, a lot of people think that Karate is nothing but fighting. The fact is, it has the same subtle properties as other arts, and the same core concepts. Here's a for instance of that with the Power developed by a move from Karate Kata Heian Three (sometimes called Pinan Three).

    The first movement of this karate pattern is a an outward block, which is an easily understood move. Then you move into a feet together standing up, leaning slightly forward at the waist with the legs s ...

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  • Save Time With An Internet Dojo And Learn Karate Online Free!
    By: Al Case | - Karate is one of the most intriguing martial arts on the planet. It is one of the most efficient, invigorating methods of self defense, and it'll make you strong and fast and able to kick like a donkey. In this bit of writing I will give you a great method to learn Karate online free, and I mean totally free.

    First, you are going to need a place to work out. Usually this is a garage or patio, or just someplace where you can push the furniture, hang a punching bag, and move around fr ...

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  • Four Ways Regarding Lethal Martial Art Tactics
    By: John Keene | - Everybody wants their training to result in the deadliest Martial Art Moves, but most schools don't really follow through. Teaching children, training for trophies, these concepts weaken from the combative arts. Interestingly, one need only understand the three stages of applications, or bunkai, and it doesn't matter whether you do karate or Taekwondo or Aikido or whatever, and your art is going to get pretty darned deadly.

    The basic idea and principle of what you are doing must be ...

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  • Three Steps To Making Deadly Martial Art Techniques
    By: Al Case | - Everybody buys into the concept of Deadly Martial Arts Techniques, but most schools don't deliver. Teaching Little Johnny, training for tournaments, these concepts take from the fighting arts. Interestingly, one need only understand the three stages of technique, or bunkai, and it doesn't matter whether you do karate or kenpo or taekwondo or whatever, and your art is going to become deadly.

    You must come to grips with the basic idea and principle of what you are doing. Often there a ...

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  • Creating An Energy Flux In Kata Pinan Five
    By: Al Case | - Many students generally assume that the Karate Shotokan Kata, we are referring to forms pinan shodan through pinan five, contain the true karate. Interestingly, while one can find much art in the shotokan forms, there have also been some variations from the true art. Let me go over a couple of points, and offer a specific technique to backup my theory.

    The pinans, or heians, as they are called in the Japanese, are commonly thought to be create by Ankoh Itosu. There may be some othe ...

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  • Three Things To Be Learned From Kata Unsu
    By: Al Case | - Kata Unsu, from Shotokan, Isshin Ryu, and other schools, is one of the most advanced karate katas you will ever learn. Unfortunately, there is good side and a bad side with this pattern. There are things you would never do in the moves, and there are things that are so incredible it is amazing.

    Unsu literally translates as Cloud Hands, and it was supposedly introduced to Shotokan Karate by Kenwa Mabuni. He taught the form to either Funakoshi's son, or Nakayama. Originally, the form ...

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  • The Truth Behind The Discipline Of Zen Karate!
    By: Al Case | - What do you get out of doing the Martial Arts? What strange abilities can you really discover and awaken? Is there a reality that could be called Zen Karate...or zen aikido, or zen whatever other martial art you might study?

    There is a thing called zen, and the best book for describing it is Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. Past that, zen is the experience of yourself, as discovered through specific discipline. My specific discipline and experience was through karate.

    The discipli ...

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  • The Greatest Martial Art Style
    By: Calasanz Martinez | - What do you think...is it Tae Kwon Do, Kenpo, Wing Chun, Tang Soo Do, Krav Maga, Jiu Jitsu, or Thai Boxing? I say none of them. As a matter of fact, no martial art that has existed since the beginning of time can claim the title of the "greatest martial art." The reality is that it's not the style that makes the martial artist, but rather the martial artist that makes the style. Please also understand that when I say "great martial artist," I don't necessarily mean great fighter. I am looking ...
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  • Understanding The Application Of Kata
    By: Calasanz Martinez | - Training in a traditional martial arts school means that you regularly practice something called kata. Kata (or forms) is a series of martial arts techniques arranged in a manner that simulates a fight against one or many imaginary opponents. While performing a kata, you move, block, strike and counterattack to ward off opponents coming at you from different directions. There are katas at every belt level, starting with very basic techniques and advancing to the more complicated black-belt for ...
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