martial-arts Tag Posts Index

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Hola comunidad, quiero compartir con ustedes un logro, parece algo pequeño en comparación con las proezas deportivas que por acá veo publicadas pero para mi es un

Challenge #04452-L068: Way of the Dragon

This is a strange place where students are taught to fight. Not the ways of the shadow, but how to fight like the dragon-born. The teachers do not care that most

Challenge #04232-K214: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes

The village had begun to rot from the inside, with the Watch being cruel the downtrodden, especially those who were not human. Certain ears DID hear. Shadows move,

Challenge #04074-K056: Zen and the Art of Learning

Several students of Twii have opened their own dojos to help teach that which they'd learned from their sensei. Twii decides to visit to inspect the dojos, and see

Did he win?

I didn't make one sound. I was so nervous that any little unexpected moment might throw him. I had been texting him throughout the day, and he was giving me updates

First match... ever!

My dad has his black belt in both Tang Soo Do and Jiu Jitsu. At times in our family, we had a gym in our home where he taught martial arts. He was my sensei and

Martialism, Movement, Meditation, Metaphysics

A punch is a punch. A stance is a stance. A pill is a pill. None of them meet. This is the mindset that gives rise to ordinary cultivation fiction. Each idea is

Why Pursue the Way of the Fist?

Everybody knows why cultivators in fiction cultivate: to become more powerful, so they can defeat more powerful cultivators. That’s lame. There’s only so much of

The Difference Between Gongfu and Cultivation

Your average wuxia\xianxia\cultivation\progression fantasy author makes a simple distinction between gongfu and cultivation: gongfu is for fighting, cultivation

What You Do, You Become

Saga of the Swordbreaker is a story of martial cultivation. Naturally, martial arts is the heart of the series. But what is a martial art? From the layman’s perspective,

Arnis, a national martial art of the Philippines.

Hi! This is Miss Bei, and another day, another blog that I would like to share. Have you ever heard about the national martial art of the Philippines? If none, this

Just Another Realistic Fight!

Vlad Dediu If you’ve watched action movies a lot, then you’re most likely familiar with the trope of the good guy being good enough to beat everyone, even in single

Babylon Black: The Doctrine of the Sword

Katanas are cool. Small wonder, then, that katanas show up often in cyberpunk media. The genre came of age in an era of Japanese ascendency. In Western cyberpunk

Sporting memories: That time where my martial arts training came in handy

This wasn't really a sporting event, it was a fight that I didn't know I was going to get into in the real world. When i was in my late teens and early 20's, I took

UFC 283: Let's talk about how Glover Teixeira can take a punch or 200

I wasn't really expecting much from this light heavyweight title bout and really felt like UFC were making it something that they really thought Glover could easily

Gamebred FC 3 | Monica Medina vs. Jessica Link

I've watched Jessica Link before in bare-knuckle boxing, but I didnt know there was bare-knuckle MA. Almost like karate with grappling. When I look it up, it's not

No. Wing Chun is NOT illegal in MMA

I saw something the other day that was a major news publication about MMA. I'm not going to shame them or anything but this article kind of made me lose a lot of

Shihonage-Water-Colored Pencil on Paper

Hello, Hive. I just want to share with you this drawing I made. I drew this a few years ago on my, literally, sketchbook. Shihonage or four-corner throw is a throwing

Bigfoot Silva KO'd again

How many times can someone get knocked out before the various commissions step in and recognize that by allowing him to continue they are potentially killing the

(JaiChai) "Differences" - Filipino Martial Arts

Here's me as the legendary Dan Inosanto, Bruce Lee's training partner and sifu to many acclaimed martial artists. "FIL MA" 3D.gif *A rare, signed, higher