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A major pivoting point in my ninjutsu martial arts learning process happened when I realized that there was something more going on than just the punching, kicking, and what-not, that makes up conventional martial arts and self-defense training. In fact, once I saw it happening, my mind shifted away from the typical orientation toward this "style" or that, and started looking beyond the techniques themselves to......what was being "done" by each move in a technique string.The question I began to ask was, "what's the logic behind the moves?" And, "why are the moves where they are in this particular string?"And THAT is what the book, "Controlling the Fight: The 5 Keys of Effective Self-Defense...

The importance of a confident mindset, determination, focus, skill, practice, effort and a refusal to be intimidated emerged once again at Wimbledon as deciding factors in nearly every match. It is worth taking a close look at the power of these factors in some of these matches.Justine Henine-Hardenne had won the championship at Eastbourne in the week before Wimbledon. She was asked what would be her most important match at Wimbledon. She answered 'whichever match comes next'. Her success plan is to focus on the next match without worrying about who she would be playing later in the competition.Most self-help experts teach us that we need to concentrate on the first or next step and not allow...

It is no secret that Asian martial arts are incredibly popular in the United States. Any given town may have two or three Korean Tae Kwon Do schools, a few Okinawan karate schools, a Chinese kung fu school or two, and a handful of Judo, Aikido, Jiu Jitsu, and other schools scattered about. The prospective martial arts student can pick and choose which style appeals to him or her most and is even free to combine elements from multiple styles. Such was not the case in the founding days of the martial arts, when arts were passed on from student to teacher in a direct lineage. It was not always easy to find a teacher, and the student had to spend a lifetime mastering the art. There was no "picking...

The novel To Kill A Mockingbird revolves around a young girl named Jean Louise Finch who goes by the nicknamed “Scout”. Scout experiences different events in her life that dramatically change her life. Scout and her brother Jem are being raised by their father, a lawyer named Atticus and a housekeeper named Calpumia in a small town in the south. At this point in time in the South racism and discriminations towards black was a big issue . The story begins when Scout is 6 years old, and her brother is about to enter the 5th grade. That summer Scout and her brother meet a young boy named Dill who comes from Mississippi to spend the summers there. They become fascinated with a man named...

Jiu-Jitsu in BrazilEventually, in Japan many different variations of the art (Jiu-Jitsu) took shape, including Karate, Aikido, and Judo. But these arts were missing essential pieces of what the complete art of Jiu-Jitsu originally held. Soon the day of the Samurai came to an end, the gun replaced the sword, and new sportive ways to practice martial arts were developed. This lack of reality created years of confusion in the martial arts community, a confusion that legendary Bruce Lee would later refer to as the 'classical mess'. The 'sport arts', such as Judo and Kendo were wonderful in the way of offering their practitioners a safe way to realistically train the techniques of their system, but often...

I have been called, e-mailed and stopped on the street, questioned in my office, at a couple of places where I shop, and at the post office. I do radio ads for Steele's Gun Shop and I'm known to be familiar with firearms to some degree. I have been asked about what kind of gun or ammo to purchase for home defense and about concealed carry of guns and knives. Some of these questions were from people who have never owned guns before and some from those who "hate" guns and even hate gun owners as well to some degree.One of my friends has interest in a business near the World Trade Center site. One close friend was the one who first reported the plane that hit the Pentagon, about three windows from his...

The benefits of Martial Arts has always appealed its practitioners. The disciplined training of the mind and body give a sense of well being but some aspects of Martial Arts training do present a problem.Most forms of martial art will eventually lead to contact training at some level, whether is is light contact, semi-contact or full contact. Whilst training it is important to wear the right equipment. But what is the right equipment and what protection will it afford you?During this article I hope to point you in the right direction towards choosing the protective sparring gear that is right for you.Head gearThis is probably the most important piece of protective equipment you can purchase. Head...

Jiu-Jitsu in BrazilEventually, in Japan many different variations of the art (Jiu-Jitsu) took shape, including Karate, Aikido, and Judo. But these arts were missing essential pieces of what the complete art of Jiu-Jitsu originally held. Soon the day of the Samurai came to an end, the gun replaced the sword, and new sportive ways to practice martial arts were developed. This lack of reality created years of confusion in the martial arts community, a confusion that legendary Bruce Lee would later refer to as the 'classical mess'. The 'sport arts', such as Judo and Kendo were wonderful in the way of offering their practitioners a safe way to realistically train the techniques of their system, but often...

Work stress plays a very major role in hurting married life. Most of the men and women bring their stress home and play havoc with their married life. The stress spills over at home and creates further stress. Home should be used to dissolve the work stress. Home should be the place to relax and get comfort. Home should be the place where we get rid of the stress that we bring from outside. But opposite happens. Let us discuss how to avoid this and keep our home protected from any such stresses. Let us also discuss how home can help us fight these stresses.The very first question should be - What is more important? Married life or work life? New work /job can be found, but getting another person to...

It would be impossible to fully track every aspect of the beginnings of mma. The Greeks, Romans, Cavemen? I will try to bring to you a history of mma that impacted the United States as I believe it occurred, and what is now the growing popularity in this reality fighting. When I use the term reality fighting, it refers to actual full contact striking and joint wrenching submissions. It is not meant to disrespect the traditional martial arts.In Brazil there was a competition called vale tudo (Portuguese for anything goes) In the early nineties an elder son of a very respected Brazilian jiu-jitsu (bjj) master came to the United States. This elder son and his younger brother were giving Bjj lessons out...

There are many myths through out the world that martial arts are still valid in today's crime filled society as an efficient means of fighting in real life situations. The fact remains, most martial arts are targetted for fitness, fun and sometimes tournament fighting. However, how applicable are these skills really? Lots of people think that using the moves in martial arts, and even what they see on TV, on UFC, PRIDE & K1 can win street fights. The fact remains that these are "sports based" fight systems. I recently put together 13 techniques, banned in the mixed martial arts in a free eBook you can get by visiting: My free eBook reveals street based, reality self defense techniques that...

The Gracies face oppositionThe Gracie's were not the only ones doing Jiu-Jitsu in the world during the 1900's, and certainly not the only one's doing Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil, they were just the most popular. Early members of the Gracie family in Brazil were political figures and very involved in the community where they lived. Among Helio's first students were Governor of Rio, Carlos Lacerda, and President, Joao Figueiredo. There were many Japanese immigrants practicing Judo and Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil and a new form of "free fighting" was also developing in Brazil at this time. The Brazilians developed a system of fighting called Luta Livre (Free Fight), and if you ask a Gracie, they might tell you that...

Have you ever been in a situation that required you to act against an attacker? Have you ever thought that learning martial arts is the need of the hour? If these questions hold good for you, then learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is the answer!Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is from the Japanese martial art that uses a system of throws, strikes, blocks, sweeps and locks to overcome an attacker. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is both practical and defensive. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu helps the defender to make use of the attacker's strength, size and momentum for his/her advantage to overcome the attacker. One can become very good at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu because of this reason. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training is a gradual process and...

We come across ghetto street fights not only in our neighborhood, but in fact it's available in underground DVD's and freely in the internet and it's quite in demand too. And yes, you must have heard of G-Unit, Black Rob, Funkmaster Flex and Lil Jon who really loves ghetto street brawls and uses them in remixed music videos. These videos fetch for about t $15 in stores, some amounting to $19.99 and it one great business. The fans are many, thus producers of ghetto street fights can make $300,000-$500,000 off that DVD! Swell! People can sit comfortably in their couches at home and have a great time watching real ghetto street fights, all with the bloody scenes and foul languages.For some watching the...

(An original rom-com action movie plot by Creative Copywriter Ugur Akinci.)Rock and Cindy are two bounty hunters, the best in their profession. Once they were married but they divorced after a terrible fight which both regretted later on.The two have made a lot of money together in the years past by catching bail jumpers all over the USA, Canada and Mexico, and both still carry the scars to prove it.Now Rock is pushing sixty and he wants to retire after this one very big job -- nabbing Scorpion, a nasty drug pin out there on a $100 mil bond and he just disappeared into the void.Rock needs people he can rely on to pull off this big job. And just then Cindy (still ravishing and strong in her 40s...

What is a martial art? A martial art can be defined as any skill that can be applied in warfare. The word martial means "military." So traditionally, a martial art is a military art. The first things that usually come to mind when discussing modern martial arts are leaping, kicking, punching, blocking, inverting elbows, twisting necks, throwing, and weapon fighting. But also horsemanship, javelin throwing, archery, spear fighting, halberd fighting, wrestling, knife fighting, rifle, shotgun and pistol shooting, demolitions, logistics, and battle strategy can all be described as the field of martial arts. Anything that a soldier might do in battle is a martial art. By martial art usually it is meant...

Fight clubs in Japan are no mere rowdy affair, once seen and forgotten fights. Here the fighters bow and congratulate one another after the fight, thereby you can see as well as feel the sense of honor and audiences respond to this display of genuine sportsmanship. Could it be one of the reasons that Japanese fight clubs are always packed solid with female fans?Its widely known that Japan has a unique, real fight culture. Its not simply a roughneck, criminal adventure. Rather it's an honorable thing, about pride and respect, and the fans especially females plays a vital role. The hard won, clean cut image of the fight industry matters a great deal in Japan. Indeed its classified to be quite hip and...

Jiu-Jitsu in BrazilEventually, in Japan many different variations of the art (Jiu-Jitsu) took shape, including Karate, Aikido, and Judo. But these arts were missing essential pieces of what the complete art of Jiu-Jitsu originally held. Soon the day of the Samurai came to an end, the gun replaced the sword, and new sportive ways to practice martial arts were developed. This lack of reality created years of confusion in the martial arts community, a confusion that legendary Bruce Lee would later refer to as the 'classical mess'. The 'sport arts', such as Judo and Kendo were wonderful in the way of offering their practitioners a safe way to realistically train the techniques of their system, but often...

Part 1The Beginning "Where did it all begin?"I don't think anyone can answer this question with certainty, but there are plenty of good hypotheses. Every culture has some form of hand to hand combat in its history. Combat without weapons usually appears in the form of wrestling and sometimes boxing. Looking at the history timeline, one good hypothesis is that the wrestling techniques of Jiu-Jitsu could very well have come from Ancient Greece. Olympic games were one of the Greek's strongest traditions. It is most likely that along with Greek ideas, came one of its most popular sports, Pankration. Pankration was a sport that involved both boxing and wrestling techniques and became more popular to the...

I recently had a couple of students in my Wing Chun class ask for training in swordsmanship. Now, Kung Fu has a lot of weapons forms, but they tend to be stylized, rather than sparring formats. I originally thought of teaching them Kendo, on the Japanese forms, but having just taken some Tae Kwon Do classes of my own, I decided to look a little further afield. I found the Korean cognate of Kendo, called kumdo. While there are a lot of practitioners of kumdo who claim that their techniques are passed down over the centuries in secret rituals, a little bit of digging showed that it's incredibly unlikely that this is the case. When the Imperial Army of Japan occupied Chosun (now Korea) in the early...

Pain is defined as a manifestation of a tissue damage that is brought about by a stimulus. Most multi-cellular organisms, especially animals are found to possess the ability to feel pain or irritation. Some plants are also known to have the ability to retract from certain stimulus. Pain is quite debilitating and only the person suffering realizes the agony involved.Pain can either be acute or chronic in nature and is classified according to the extent to which it is felt. Short duration, severe spasms are the common characteristics of acute pains, whereas those that are long drawn are usually symptoms of chronic pain. Pain is region specific, depending on the location of the trauma.Medical experts...

Do you remember the High School Cafeteria? The noise, the food fights, the detention and just being in the wrong place at the wrong time for some certain edible organic flying matter that day? Of all the noisiest places I have ever been that is certainly ranking pretty high; next to rock concerts, airport ramp areas with jests and indoor Hockey Games. Why I bet that is enough vibrational energy to power up all the lights in the school including the cafeteria? How so you ask?Well what if we take all that noise and vibrational energy and collect it and turn it into light...

Many of us believe in the importance of personal self defense. But we may not have skills or training in karate, boxing, or other systems we normally associate with personal self defense, and rely instead upon the advantage of weaponry.Weapons are intended to give us extra power and leverage, but they are not always where we need them when we need them in an emergency personal self defense situation. Many who own firearms, for example, leave them locked up at home. Others buy personal self defense products like pepper spray, but don’t have those weapons with them 24/7. So it is an important part of any personal self defense mindset to learn to recognize and use improvised weapons.For example...

Mace is a registered brand name of a non-lethal self-defense spray, manufactured by Mace Security International. Mace, Inc. makes three different formulas of self-defense spray: Triple Action, PepperGard or Pepper Mace, and Pepper Foam. All sprays are meant to be directed into the face of an assailant. The word "mace" is often used interchangeably with "pepper spray." Mace Inc.'s Triple Action product combines pepper spray, tear gas and ultraviolet dye for an all-out assault on any would-be attacker. The pepper spray is made from hot cayenne peppers, the active ingredient being oleoresin capsicum. Pepper spray is an inflammatory agent that causes temporary blindness and difficulty breathing, which...

When it comes to life in general, 90% of us feel the need to lose weight or change the way we look in some way.Once we've undertaken our fitness quest for weight loss or hypertrophy, usually after the first week or two we find that the energy required to do so is becoming harder and harder to conjure. Usually, these physiological changes leave our bodies craving for the fuel needed to perform these transformations. In this article i'll show you exactly how to get the energy your body requires and how to kick your body into 2nd gear.What do I need to keep the pace up?When it comes to gearing our bodies to perform at higher than average energy levels, firstly it takes time. Time requires patience...

In the early winter of 2004, we found our beagle, Biscuit, with her one remaining puppy near a creek outside of our property line. Biscuit had managed to keep her tiny black puppy alive for four weeks in spite of bitter cold temperatures.Biscuit had a habit of having her puppies where no one could find them until the puppies were about a month old. With this particular litter, Biscuit would run home for a meal and then disappear again. Efforts to find her were in vain until that day.We fostered this puppy until she was about eight weeks old at which time we gave her to the family next door. They have a young daughter, so we thought we were doing a good thing.We were wrong- dead wrong.They named the...

Street fighting clips are plastered adequately over many websites, attracting the viewers with eye-catching titles and pictures. Many are not worth looking, quite hilarious and at times very offending too and yes, sometimes there are complaints about the free display of ugly street fights which are graphic and misleading. Anyhow not every viewer thinks so and they enjoy watching fighters and laymen slugging out in the streets and it's a great entertainment for them. Most of the street fighting clips are real ones, showing real emotions of pain, anger, competition as well and portray the way some people manage their anger. Anyways, those in favor of street fighting clips opine that it gives them the...

When people believe that they must solve their problems with the direct use of force and violence, it will show as a great sign of the failure of civilization. Do sophisticated men solve their quarrels with the use of violence? When scientists are presenting a new theory or hypothesis, would they ever feel the need to use physical force, or would they bring evidence? A good theory will not be in need of violence, just as much as good men will do as much as they can to solve their problems peacefully. I believe in Pacifism, and by this, I believe that whenever violence arrises, the beautify in humanity decreases, the flower of reverence wilts, and a storm just begins to foment on the horizon of...

We come across ghetto street fights not only in our neighborhood, but in fact it's available in underground DVD's and freely in the internet and it's quite in demand too. And yes, you must have heard of G-Unit, Black Rob, Funkmaster Flex and Lil Jon who really loves ghetto street brawls and uses them in remixed music videos. These videos fetch for about t $15 in stores, some amounting to $19.99 and it one great business. The fans are many, thus producers of ghetto street fights can make $300,000-$500,000 off that DVD! Swell! People can sit comfortably in their couches at home and have a great time watching real ghetto street fights, all with the bloody scenes and foul languages.For some watching the...

Karate is a science and philosophy of fighting which has developed over the centuries in the Orient and now popular in Japan. During the past few years, it has spread from Japan to the United States and Europe, where it is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the world's most effective means of self-defense. Karate is a way of life, the purpose of which is to enable men and women to realize their full potential, both physical and spiritual. If the spiritual side of karate is ignored, its physical aspect is meaningless. The ultimate purpose of karate is to develop human character rather than merely strengthen human beings against physical enemies. Karate does promote confidence, courage, and other...

When people believe that they must solve their problems with the direct use of force and violence, it will show as a great sign of the failure of civilization. Do sophisticated men solve their quarrels with the use of violence? When scientists are presenting a new theory or hypothesis, would they ever feel the need to use physical force, or would they bring evidence? A good theory will not be in need of violence, just as much as good men will do as much as they can to solve their problems peacefully. I believe in Pacifism, and by this, I believe that whenever violence arrises, the beautify in humanity decreases, the flower of reverence wilts, and a storm just begins to foment on the horizon of...

When Street Fighter 2 was in the arcades, people would put quarters or tokens in the machine to fight each other and show their skills. You had to be good to challenge someone in the arcade because if you were not, your opponent would win each round in a matter of minutes. To get better in the arcades, you had to use a lot of quarters or tokens to keep playing and learning your favorite characters' moves. There were also some strategy guides to teach you how to pull the moves off, but without actually trying it out in the arcades, it really didn't help much. The Street Fighter 2 game stayed packed with people playing it and everyone would stand around the machine watching the matches.Once the...

When people believe that they must solve their problems with the direct use of force and violence, it will show as a great sign of the failure of civilization. Do sophisticated men solve their quarrels with the use of violence? When scientists are presenting a new theory or hypothesis, would they ever feel the need to use physical force, or would they bring evidence? A good theory will not be in need of violence, just as much as good men will do as much as they can to solve their problems peacefully. I believe in Pacifism, and by this, I believe that whenever violence arrises, the beautify in humanity decreases, the flower of reverence wilts, and a storm just begins to foment on the horizon of...

When people believe that they must solve their problems with the direct use of force and violence, it will show as a great sign of the failure of civilization. Do sophisticated men solve their quarrels with the use of violence? When scientists are presenting a new theory or hypothesis, would they ever feel the need to use physical force, or would they bring evidence? A good theory will not be in need of violence, just as much as good men will do as much as they can to solve their problems peacefully. I believe in Pacifism, and by this, I believe that whenever violence arrises, the beautify in humanity decreases, the flower of reverence wilts, and a storm just begins to foment on the horizon of...