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Welcome to the Sports section on City Connect
Welcome to the Sports section of City Connect. Here you can find great articles related to sports and also sports-related advice. We’re developing this section every month and will be covering such sports events this year such as Six Nations Rugby, Euro 2012 Football, the Tennis at Wimbledon and of course the 2012 London Olympics.
For a list of all Sports articles, click here. Alternatively, for a list of the latest articles in this section, please see below.
- The Martial Artist of the 21st Century Martial arts were developed to help people fight, being it for attacking people in battle or for defensive purposes. If we look at China and Japan, two countries that gave birth to some of the most famous martial arts in the world, they have profound differences in the way martial arts developed over time. In ...
- Martial Arts and the Subconscious Have you ever heard expressions like: Practicing martial arts without thinking? Going with the instinct? Thinking is too slow in a fighting situation? The main purpose of learning complicated moves and combinations during most martial arts practice brings two main advantages: improving the muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints involved in that move building connections in our mind to assimilate the move, ...
- How Realistic is Your Training? Considering that martial arts are, in essence, methodologies for fighting I always consider paramount to perform a reality check of each application. This is to assess if and when a technique or combination can be useful in a self defence or real fight situation. Please notice that some styles, like kick boxing, tae kwon do and ...
- An Encounter That Made Me Think The other day I bumped into MT, a former student of mine. He joined my club years ago and trained with us for at least a couple of years. MT is a guy in his late thirties, over 6 foot tall and well over 200 pounds of weight. When he arrived he had a reasonable ...
- Contact Training for Self Defence This post is discussing the importance of contact training in martial arts, particularly in view of their effectiveness in self defence situations. Once I welcomed a new student in my club: he stated to be nearly at Dan level in his club back home. He practiced a style of Korean martial art, derived from Tae Know ...
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