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From Roman Soldiers to the Wing Chun Wooden Dummy: The Value of Solo Training

Why did ancient Roman legionaries—men whose survival depended on combat—spend countless hours training against a fixed wooden post?

Modern martial arts culture often places most of its emphasis on sparring, competition, and partner drills. Solo training is frequently ...

Oh I love these discussions and the information is great! Thank you to all the "old" timers posting. I refer to the term "old" timer as a very respectfull salute

Ok the original curriculum that was being taught in the kajukenbo system that was brought over to the mainland by Sonny Gascon before the falling out. Actually before the group broke up?

Is that sim...

JSA Dojo Finder

http://www.rain.org/~galvan/ikfdir.htm
(International Kendo Federation, covers some Iaido as well, best for non-US kendo contacts)

http://www.kendo-usa.org or
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I think it's somewhat common in BJJ to identify the types of techniques that tend to lead to injuries and slowly whittle those out of the competition rules, either by belt or entirely. For example, most leg attacks are only allowed at brown/black belt, kids can't pull the head on a triangle choke, you need to wait until blue belt to jump guard, etc.

Additionally, in som...

So what is happening today with Jeet Keen Do? still around? If it is not a style and adopts anything that seems to work how does one dojo teach the same as another dojo? For example I under stand that Tae Kwon Do is taught pretty much the same at all dojang's because it is a style?