Mindset Matters In Taekwondo training
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The Purpose of Ki-Hap and How to Ki-Hap Correctly

What is a Ki-Hap Ki-hap or ‘to shout with spirit’, is a vital part of martial arts training, that’s because it has a positive impact on the person training and on their training results. You’ve probably seen a practitioner preparing for a flying side kick or a board break, they get into stance, give a…

Taekwondo Stafford men sparring
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Tricking and Martial Arts

Tricking is a new discipline or an art form that largely incorporates gymnastics, martial arts and dancing. The practitioners are known as trickers while the moves that they execute are known as tricks. Tricks combine acrobatics, twists, turns, flips, kicks, in a smooth dancing-like movement. Tricking is evolving constantly and thus, arriving at a definition…

Master Taekwondo
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Martial Arts and Misdirection

Martial arts and misdirection are connected in various ways. Misdirection is also widely employed in other fields of human enterprise. Let us start with a brief overview of misdirection and then dive in how it is utilized in martial arts. What is misdirection? Interactive Languages – Language.Foundation video “Misdirection — what is MISDIRECTION definition”: Misdirection…

Martial Arts Ministry
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Martial Arts Ministry

Introduction A martial arts ministry integrates martial arts training with Christian principles. Few Christian martial arts ministries 1. Gospel Martial Arts Union (GMAU) “Since our founding in 1986, by two pastors (Dr. Ron Tottingham and Dr. Kent Haralson) the GMAU has grown to include membership in 48 states and 19 foreign countries and is one…

How Taewkondo teaches us patience
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Push-Pull in Martial Arts

Forces cannot be seen, but the effects that they have on objects can be seen. For example, the earth’s gravitational force cannot be seen, but its effect that causes everything to fall down on the ground, can be seen. There are many types of forces like gravitational force, centrifugal force, magnetic force, electric force, electromagnetic…

Martial lessons learnt from the animal kingdom
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Martial lessons learnt from the animal kingdom

Martial lessons learnt from the animal kingdom are innumerable. Since early times, when humans hunted animals to obtain food, they keenly observed animals and adopted many of their attacking and defensive movements. As time passed, with the advent of the agricultural, and subsequently the industrial and knowledge economies, although hunting animals was no longer a…

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Business lessons learnt from martial arts

Martial arts and business are almost similar. Surviving in a cut-throat competitive business environment is alike to surviving a combat in martial arts. The contexts in both keep on continuously changing and hence, strategies adopted in martial arts have also found their applications in the business world. Therefore, it is no wonder that the ancient…