Any practitioner of Wing Chun will, sooner or later, run into the wooden dummy. The original dummies were larger and set into the ground, but most martial artists these days are more familiar with the smaller variety. This came about thanks to Ip Man, who needed to keep in practice but didn’t have the room,…
Si ves películas marciales no hay duda de que has visto en alguna ocasión a Donnie Yen en acción. Aquí te contamos tres curiosidades sobre el actor de Ip Man. Su madre enseñaba artes marciales Bow-sim Mark es una sifu que se especializa en tai chi chuan y estilo Fu Wudangquan. Cuando la familia emigró…
Las artes marciales tienen un amplio rango de estilos que pueden ser categorizados de diferentes maneras, como puede ser la religión (como Taoísta, budista o islámica) o por su principales aplicaciones (patear, golpear, luchar o agarrar). Pero una de las mayores líneas divisorias es la geografía; como es un país con uno de los climas…
Muchos de nosotros nos hemos inspirado en grandes películas de artes marciales. Aquí os presentamos 10 de las mejores películas de Kung Fu de todos los tiempos: Furia Oriental (1972) En una de las películas más magistrales de artes marciales de la década, Bruce Lee, como Chen Zhen, desafía a una escuela japonesa de kung…
Japón ha dotado al mundo con muchas cosas relacionadas con las artes marciales y una de ellas es el predominio del ninja en la cultura popular. Pero hay más que la misteriosa y letal figura del ninja que las películas y televisión muestran. 5 cosas que no sabrás del ninja REAL: Ninja mujeres La mayoría…
What have you seen or heard about Filipino martial arts? Maybe you’re familiar with arnis, also known as eskrima, kali, or sometimes just ‘that thing with the sticks?’ – Both the US and Indian militaries have incorporated elements of Filipino martial arts into their own unarmed combat training regimens. Okay, so what is Filipino…
National Muay Thai Day is celebrated on the 17th of March, and in the ancient capital of Ayutthaya, the Wai Kru Festival is a true spectacle! Its origins lie in both recorded history and the myth surrounding the story of Nai Khanom Tom, the father of Muay Thai. In 1767, the Burmese destroyed Ayutthaya and…
With only a few days left until the biggest fight of the year, the excitement surrounding the meeting of Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather has reached a white-hot fever pitch! It’s a convergence of the best in the world in two different schools: Conor, current UFC Lightweight Champion and former Featherweight Champion, representing some…
When it comes to crises around the world, it falls to the US Marine Corps and their cousins in the Navy SEALs to be the first to respond, and they must do so in any environment, especially the sea. To this end, they train in schools to prepare both themselves and their sister service branches…
Last time, we looked at 5 things you may not have known about the mysterious world of ninja! What is clear from your comments, and from the many representations of ninja in popular culture, is that the secretive world of these stealthy spies and assassins is still fascinating audiences to this day. So, let’s…