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Going beyond general fitness, athletics focuses on building elite level strength, mobility and range of movement. Athletic martial arts build physical strength and stamina through rigorous cardio that often incorporates HIIT and resistance training. In addition to the skills learned, this martial art may improve overall fitness, endurance and general wellbeing.
Considered one of the most important perceptual-motor abilities, balance allows you to have more body control while doing sports. With balancing, you will gain coordination, stability, and improve ease of movement.
One of the acts of deflecting or stopping an attack on the opponent to prevent injurious contact with the body. Usually, blocking consists of keeping a limb across the attack line.
Developing positive skills, and resilience which often spill over into other spheres of life.
A hybrid of police tactics, military, and martial arts. Originally, it was developed especially for the military to fight enemy soldiers in small, enclosed spaces.
The main component of concentration is the ability to focus attention on the task at hand and not be distracted by irrelevant internal or external stimuli.
Self-confidence is the conviction that an athlete has to obtain a certain result or meet an objective. Practitioners who show high levels of self-confidence tend to set more ambitious goals and respond to complex and demanding situations with greater efficacy.
Coordination is one of the physical abilities of the human being and a basic quality for anyone who practices sports. It complements other abilities such as strength, endurance, flexibility, and speed, helping the body act together, move more efficiently, and improve our body position and balance in movement.
A core tenant of most martial arts; discipline is taught in a way that allows a practitioner to stay focused on improvement despite distractions.
The teaching of a code of ethics is based on the consideration that ethical behaviour is essential both in martial arts and in life. Learning right from wrong and understanding there are often more than two sides to a story.
Flexibility exercises also called range-of-motion exercises or simply stretching, keep your muscles supple and your joints free to move. Flexibility exercises should give a feeling of “comfort tension”.
General fitness is the development of physical qualities through exercise, with the aim of improving the general psycho-physical state, cardiovascular exercises, toning, balance, coordination, stretching, relaxation, etc. are performed. It is a complete training of the body based on exercises that combine muscular and aerobic work.
Grappling is a hybrid sport that combines different styles, some modern and some more traditional, of wrestling and martial arts. This fighting method is based on grappling, strangulation, and dislocation techniques of the adversary’s extremities. Used in various martial arts (judo, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, etc.), it is also used very frequently in submission sports, where combat can be terminated without the need for blows.
Usually, the Ground Work term is used in mixed martial arts and some other combat sports as well. Besides, it can also be used in several forms of martial arts to define the grappling technique sets employed by an opponent who is on the ground. As far as self-defense is concerned, ground work is a great idea to learn how to defend against a standing attacker from the ground.
Joint locking is a grappling technique that involves manipulating an opponent’s joints in such a way that the joints reach their full range Joint locks generally involve isolating a particular joint, using leverage in an attempt to force the joint to move beyond its normal range of motion. Joint blocks cause varying degrees of joint pain and, if applied forcefully and/or suddenly, can cause injury, including damage to muscles, tendons, and ligaments, and even bone dislocation or fracture.
There are many martial arts that use knives. Although they can be dangerous, they also teach you how to defend yourself with a knife, as well as against knife attacks.
Focusing on the improvement of range-of-movement; this type of martial art works on joint flexibility and general improvement of motion.
Encompassing critical thinking, ethics and a rage of other intellectual disciplines; a philosophical focus attempts to improve the mind of a practitioner, not just the body.
The merging of physical training and philosophical ideology, teaching that martial arts should not be used in unprovoked aggression. Instead, physical confrontation should only be used as a last resort.
The practice of using both traditional wood-based weapons, and often improvised, nature-based weapons (small tree branches, reeds, etc).
Improving physical strength and building muscle through bodyweight exercise and resistance training. Often works to improve overall discipline and resilience, too.
A general catch-all for punching, kicking and using elbows / knees to deliver a blow to an opponent.
The use of longer, metal, bladed weapons, including (but not limited to) swords, machete, pikes, etc.
A specific type of grappling that aims to give the skills needed to toss an opponent, or otherwise “put them on the ground”.
Typically a combination of grappling and joint locking that aims to immobilise an opponent without necessarily doing any long-term damage.
Learning to effectively use every-day, innocuous objects, as weapons; and to identify things that might be to hand, that can be used when in a bind. Including (but not limited to) things like car keys, chop sticks, a fork, an ATM card, etc.
Going beyond general fitness, athletics focuses on building elite level strength, mobility and range of movement. Athletic martial arts build physical strength and stamina through rigorous cardio that often incorporates HIIT and resistance training. In addition to the skills learned, this martial art may improve overall fitness, endurance and general wellbeing.
Considered one of the most important perceptual-motor abilities, balance allows you to have more body control while doing sports. With balancing, you will gain coordination, stability, and improve ease of movement.
One of the acts of deflecting or stopping an attack on the opponent to prevent injurious contact with the body. Usually, blocking consists of keeping a limb across the attack line.
Developing positive skills, and resilience which often spill over into other spheres of life.
A hybrid of police tactics, military, and martial arts. Originally, it was developed especially for the military to fight enemy soldiers in small, enclosed spaces.
The main component of concentration is the ability to focus attention on the task at hand and not be distracted by irrelevant internal or external stimuli.
Self-confidence is the conviction that an athlete has to obtain a certain result or meet an objective. Practitioners who show high levels of self-confidence tend to set more ambitious goals and respond to complex and demanding situations with greater efficacy.
Coordination is one of the physical abilities of the human being and a basic quality for anyone who practices sports. It complements other abilities such as strength, endurance, flexibility, and speed, helping the body act together, move more efficiently, and improve our body position and balance in movement.
A core tenant of most martial arts; discipline is taught in a way that allows a practitioner to stay focused on improvement despite distractions.
The teaching of a code of ethics is based on the consideration that ethical behaviour is essential both in martial arts and in life. Learning right from wrong and understanding there are often more than two sides to a story.
Flexibility exercises also called range-of-motion exercises or simply stretching, keep your muscles supple and your joints free to move. Flexibility exercises should give a feeling of “comfort tension”.
General fitness is the development of physical qualities through exercise, with the aim of improving the general psycho-physical state, cardiovascular exercises, toning, balance, coordination, stretching, relaxation, etc. are performed. It is a complete training of the body based on exercises that combine muscular and aerobic work.
Grappling is a hybrid sport that combines different styles, some modern and some more traditional, of wrestling and martial arts. This fighting method is based on grappling, strangulation, and dislocation techniques of the adversary’s extremities. Used in various martial arts (judo, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, etc.), it is also used very frequently in submission sports, where combat can be terminated without the need for blows.
Usually, the Ground Work term is used in mixed martial arts and some other combat sports as well. Besides, it can also be used in several forms of martial arts to define the grappling technique sets employed by an opponent who is on the ground. As far as self-defense is concerned, ground work is a great idea to learn how to defend against a standing attacker from the ground.
Joint locking is a grappling technique that involves manipulating an opponent’s joints in such a way that the joints reach their full range Joint locks generally involve isolating a particular joint, using leverage in an attempt to force the joint to move beyond its normal range of motion. Joint blocks cause varying degrees of joint pain and, if applied forcefully and/or suddenly, can cause injury, including damage to muscles, tendons, and ligaments, and even bone dislocation or fracture.
There are many martial arts that use knives. Although they can be dangerous, they also teach you how to defend yourself with a knife, as well as against knife attacks.
Focusing on the improvement of range-of-movement; this type of martial art works on joint flexibility and general improvement of motion.
Encompassing critical thinking, ethics and a rage of other intellectual disciplines; a philosophical focus attempts to improve the mind of a practitioner, not just the body.
The merging of physical training and philosophical ideology, teaching that martial arts should not be used in unprovoked aggression. Instead, physical confrontation should only be used as a last resort.
The practice of using both traditional wood-based weapons, and often improvised, nature-based weapons (small tree branches, reeds, etc).
Improving physical strength and building muscle through bodyweight exercise and resistance training. Often works to improve overall discipline and resilience, too.
A general catch-all for punching, kicking and using elbows / knees to deliver a blow to an opponent.
The use of longer, metal, bladed weapons, including (but not limited to) swords, machete, pikes, etc.
A specific type of grappling that aims to give the skills needed to toss an opponent, or otherwise “put them on the ground”.
Typically a combination of grappling and joint locking that aims to immobilise an opponent without necessarily doing any long-term damage.
Learning to effectively use every-day, innocuous objects, as weapons; and to identify things that might be to hand, that can be used when in a bind. Including (but not limited to) things like car keys, chop sticks, a fork, an ATM card, etc.