Posts under ‘Martial Arts’

There are two things that seem to draw the “oohs” from the crowds at a fight: good punches and big throws. There were a couple of good throws Saturday night at Throwdown IV, and I managed to catch one of them on camera. In this case, one fighter lifted the other off the mat, got [...]

Saturday night’s fights opened with an unusual Muay Thai match:
We thought it was a joke at first, but when the bell rang, these little dudes went to town on one another. They punched, they kicked, they threw knees to the ribs.
And the crowd went nuts.
I felt almost guilty encouraging two little kids to beat the [...]

This week’s Photo Friday pic comes from the Throwdown IV MMA event in East Peoria Saturday night. We were treated to almost 30 great fights, and my friends and I had a great time.
This is the third Throwdown event I’ve attended at the East Peoria Event Center, and the event gets a little better every [...]

There are a lot of garbage techniques in the martial arts, often so obvious that someone with little or no training can recognize them as such. Yet some schools latch on to them, even attach some mysticism to them, and continue to teach these techniques as if they’d really work.
In the following video, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu [...]

I was supposed to participate in a black belt promotion ceremony called a kamiza at the Academy of Okinawan Karate tonight, but the combination of winter weather and a sick child conspired against me. Not only did I miss out on what would have been a great event but I missed out on a great [...]

I’m posting a day late, but this pic was actually taken last night at the Academy of Okinawan Karate’s graduation.
Judo is something I hope to work on myself, soon. There is just enough Judo in the Shuri-ryu curriculum to give karateka a taste, but the AOK offers a dedicated Judo class as well. Once I [...]

Wrath James White put on a Muay Thai demonstration Saturday morning at the con, and as I mentioned previously, he recruited me to hold the pads for him. In a nutshell, my job was to get beaten on a little.
Ass-whoopin’ jokes aside, it was a great demo. Wrath spent a lot of time discussing the [...]

Word on the Internets is two of my friends have never heard of W.A.S.P., much less heard their infamous track “Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)”. While I wouldn’t count the band amongst my favorites, you have to have heard this song at least once, especially if you’re a fan at all of hard rock or [...]

The UFC made this video called Randy Couture Divorce Attorney for one of their award shows, and it’s worth a laugh:

Of course, this was intentionally funny. Another MMA artifact I can’t help but laugh at is this Bas Rutten commercial the Cartoon Network has been running to remind kids to wash their hands to knock [...]

For once I can show you an exact kata I’ve learned.
At the last Academy of Okinawan Karate graduation, one of the guys I worked out with on a black belt attack team, Tim Mangan, was promoted to Ikkyu, or first-degree brown belt. As a Nikyu (second-degree brown belt), we learn the kata Bassai Dai, also [...]