Medicine Balls drills and punching
Here are some beginner level drills: twist, over head, cross, jab, throw and squat, push pass, punching.
View ArticleStrength circuit, solo medicine ball, Kettlebell for martial arts
Circuit Warm up: 1.Burpies 2. Clap Push ups 3. Mountain climbers 4. Thai Squats 5. V-ups 6. T-pushups 7. Horse stance squats 8. Lunge jumps 9. scissors, bicycles, elbow-knee 10. bouncy push ups 11....
View ArticleA Fighters cirriculum
Comprehensive training for martial artist who wish to be proficient in fighting- street, sport, self defense, life-death situations. -warm-ups and stretching to prevent injury -strength training: 1....
View ArticleAbout Tai Chi Combat training for beginners
sparring and noobs- 1. build confidence in them- re-enforce it with confidence building drills like parrying, catching (things in tai chi form) 2. after teaching solo forms and applications, bring...
View Article12 round circuit training 3min. rounds 1 min. rest/water
circuit- alternate partner glove work, heavy bag, strength rounds. warm up- a. running, high knees, butt kicks, side ways, alternate feet, skip jumps, 5 hops, ect. b. stretching set. Round 1- glove...
View ArticleDeveloping a ‘Tai Chi’ fighter to hang with Boxers, Kickboxers, BJJ and, and...
Lets examine some BASIC features that some Tai Chi fighters might try to employ to “Hang” with fighters from other styles: Characteristics of Tai chi fighter, Tai Chi is a ‘Chuan’ which means fist and...
View ArticleDiscussion on da shou 打手 in Taijiquan combat skills training
Recent discussion on Taijiquan combat skills for fighting. From Louis Swaim: The term for striking hands would be da shou 打手, which is in fact the older term for two-person drills. The term push hands,...
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“Jin Lu” and “Jing Luo” Demystified for Taijiquan, Tui shou, Da Shou, and San...
Two very different Chinese terms: “Jin Lu” is path of Power for “fa jin” “emitting force” and “Jing Luo” is the qi paths used in acupuncture. 勁 Jin/Chin is intrinsic strength The chin [intrinsic...
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T’ai Chi Classical Literature for Fighting with T’ai Chi Ch’uan
Last update: 7/6/2015 Tai Chi classics Extracted are parts (cutting out the fat) of the Tai Chi Classics that relate to fighting, opponents, and how to respond using the Tai Chi principles and theory....
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Tai Chi chuan’s Ti-Fang with Stephen J. Goodson of www.fairtradetaichi.org
Ti-fang (Lift and Place) is a critical component in Tai Chi Chuan. The video and text below is an interview with Stephen and he and I discuss and give some samples of ti-Fang usage in Form, Push hands,...
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