By Jillian Bullock World famous martial artist Brue Lee created Jeet Kune Do, which means “Way of the Intercepting Fist,” and he believed that only what worked for you should be used in martial arts and the rest discarded. Mixed martial arts can actually be compared to Jeet Kwon Do, which is a hybrid fighting [...]

Which Martial Arts Style Is Best To Become An MMA Fighter? is a post from: MMA News

Which Martial Arts Style Is Best To Become An MMA Fighter?
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The martial arts known as Silat is not very well known in the U.S. but it is very popular internationally!  This arts has now spread from Java, Singapore, and Thailand and Silat is said to have influenced the most popular martial arts in the US which is Okinawan karate.  Although you may never have heard [...]

Achieve Your Ultimate Fitness level, Silat Style! is a post from: MMA News

Achieve Your Ultimate Fitness level, Silat Style!
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Kyokushin Karate is one of the toughest martial arts on the planet. Definitely not one for those of you who don’t like to be hit. If you do not like violence, you probably shouldn’t even peek through the windows. Masutatsu Oyama founded Kyokushin in 1964 and since then an amazing 12 million students have trained [...]

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Kyokushin Kaikan, Karate
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Also known as the ‘El Juego Del Garrote’, Garotte Larense is a unique martial art from Venezuela, South America. While Venezuela may be considered a small country, it’s capital Caracas is known to have the highest per-capita murder rate in the world, even rivaling the death tolls of war time Iraq and Afghanistan. So clearly [...]

Garrote Larense: Martial Arts Styles is a post from: MMA News

Garrote Larense: Martial Arts Styles
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For being such a tiny country Korea has a seriously impressive list of martial arts, far more than most other large countries. It is true that they have been at war for almost their entire history and still today which must be one of the main reasons they have developed so many fighting styles. During [...]

How many Korean Martial Arts are there? is a post from: MMA News

How many Korean Martial Arts are there?
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While Vietnamese martial arts may not be to most well known in the world they have certainly be honed for use against overwhelming force of invading enemies with better weapons and massive forces and resources. Among it’s invasions Vietnam has been attacked by it’s giant neighbor China as well as being ruled for a time [...]

Vietnamese Martials Arts & Cobra Blood Wine is a post from: MMA News

Vietnamese Martials Arts & Cobra Blood Wine
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While Vietnamese martial arts may not be to most well known in the world they have certainly be honed for use against overwhelming force of invading enemies with better weapons and massive forces and resources. Among it’s invasions Vietnam has been attacked by it’s giant neighbor China as well as being ruled for a time [...]

Vietnamese Martials Arts & Cobra Blood Wine is a post from: MMA News

Vietnamese Martials Arts & Cobra Blood Wine
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‘Semper Fu’, ‘McSlap’ and ‘McNinja’ are all nicknames for MCMAP the US Marine Corp Martial Arts Program. Started in 2001 this program teaches unarmed hand-to-hand and close quarters combat combined with rifle and bayonet techniques. According to the Marine Corps Times as of a year ago 98% of US Marines were trained in the MCMAP [...]

Semper Fu! The Marines Martial Arts is a post from: MMA News

Semper Fu! The Marines Martial Arts
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Capoiera is an Afro-Brazilian art form with elements of dance and martial arts. It is a sometimes heated debate whether Capoeira is just a dance art form that incorporates martial arts type fight moves or whether it is a battle ready fighting style. One thing is for sure – and that is that the Brazilian [...]

What is Capoeira? is a post from: MMA News

What is Capoeira?
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The unique Japanese martial art of Aikido was developed by by Morihei Ueshiba almost a century ago. Aikido is often translated as ‘The way of unifying life energy’. This style is often mistakenly confused with Judo or Kendo Bogu. It’s unique form uses the force and motion of the attacker and re-directs it instead of [...]

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What is Aikido?
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Savate, what is that? Savate aka French Kickboxing or French Foot Fighting is a martial art from France that combines boxing and kicks. In Savate only foot kicks are used as opposed to some arts allowing shins and knees to be used. Hence Savate is on of the few martial arts where it’s practitioners train [...]

Savate Martial Arts Style – French Kicking Style is a post from: MMA News

Savate Martial Arts Style – French Kicking Style
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Gracie Jiu-jitsu is known world wide as one of the most effective forms of hand-to-hand combat. The Gracie family took the teachings of a Japanese man and adapted them to make them more effective, especially when dealing with a fight on the ground. Helio Gracie was probably the most instrumental in making this form of [...]

The Rise to the Top of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu is a post from: MMA News

The Rise to the Top of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
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Taido Similar to Okinawan karate, this codified fighting art introduced a number of innovative techniques, such as spinning and twisting movements and complex footwork moves. There are five types of body movement: “ten” involves rolling and tumbling; “nen” is a horizontal spinning movement; “hen” is falling while changing the body’s axis; “un” is an ascending [...]

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Taido and Kenpo Kai
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Jogo Do Pau Jogo Do Pau is a Portuguese staff-fighting martial art and, although its origins are unclear, it is believed the art was originally used to settle matters of honor between families and village members in the northern states of Portugal. Although there are suggestions Jogo Do Pau’s origins may lie in Indian martial [...]

Jogo Do Pau, Zipota, Lutta Corsa, & Jousting is a post from: MMA News

Jogo Do Pau, Zipota, Lutta Corsa, & Jousting
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Savate is a full-contact boxing and kicking art, indigenous to France and some other parts of southwest Europe. It is believed to have evolved from a collection of fighting techniques used by sailors, criminals, and soldiers. The art form also includes a number of grappling maneuvers and involves weapons training, most notably with staffs such [...]

Savate: Full On Boxing With Kicks! is a post from: MMA News

Savate: Full On Boxing With Kicks!
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