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Goju ryu karate and health
Posted On 01/02/2009 08:37:55 by dandjurdjevic


Is goju karate bad for your health?

I was recently asked about whether goju ryu is potentially bad for your health. The correspondent was particularly concerned with knuckle push ups and makiwara punching causing arthritis, and sanchin kata having other adverse effects (eg. raising blood pressure).

Knuckle push-ups

Knuckle push ups will not cause arthritis. There are 2 kinds of arthritis; the rheumatoid type (ie. caused by an immunological disease be it rheumatoid a... Read More



Writings
Posted On 12/26/2008 23:33:19 by Hi2ufreak

Well, for all of you who dont know, which is all of you, I love to write, infact I love writing so much that I've started my own blogspot account to share my writings with everyone. A few examples would bo:

Watching

Watching the wind blow the leaves from side to side is like a dream,
A dream untouched by the impurities in life,
A dream where any thing can happen,
Some thing that most people don’t understand,
Though we’ve tried,
They’ll never see what they have... Read More



Sparring from day one?
Posted On 11/09/2008 21:10:06 by dandjurdjevic


Free sparring in karate is a fairly modern innovation, developed post World War II as part of the drive to popularise karate and turn it into a sport. From there sport-based "distance" sparring ("shiai kumite" or "ippon shobu") spread rapidly throughout the karate world. However as I have discussed previously this type of sparring bears little resemblance to actual fighting and, very importantly, bears little resemblance to how karate was designed to be used. This is especially so when yo... Read More



Warrior Wisdom: An Introduction
Posted On 11/08/2008 15:09:25 by Bohdi_Sanders

Warrior Wisdom

 

     What is the warrior lifestyle?  The true warrior is a rare person in today's world.  He lives life with a different set of values compared with the rest of society.  Even those who do share the same values, rarely live a lifestyle which adheres to those values to the extent that the warrior does. ... Read More



Disney's Wide World of Sports Grand Champion winner!
Posted On 10/26/2008 13:27:29 by Grace

As many of you know, my passion has been Martial Arts. I have been training in Okinawan Style Karate since February of 1996! Ha Ha Ha I just realized that my first day of training after signing up was February 14th! Valentine's Day (talk about passion). I remember this because when I went to train for noon class with Master Ric Martin, he told me that they had canceled the noon class for that day. I was disappointed but excited and so came back the next day to start my training.

The... Read More



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