Posts Tagged ‘martial arts’


Do You Really Want To Be A Black Belt - Or Just Faking It?

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Let’s say that you’re a BJJ Instructor and you have two students that show up to join your school on the same day. You talk to both of these prospective students to find out their backgrounds and this is what you learned about both of them:

After talking with Grappler #1 (G1), you learn that this grappler
was:

- very confident, showing little or no self-doubt about wanting to achieve the BJJ BB

- very athletic and had been involved with martial arts since he was a child

- a black belt in a traditional martial art


The Origin Of The Earliest Extant Manual On Shaolin Kung Fu

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Chinese martial arts were first mentioned in literature dating back to the Chou Dynasty from 1122-255BC and but the Shaolin Kung Fu history begins with the building of the Shaolin Monastery in 495AD. This monastery which was built on the Sung Mountain in the Honen Province housed up to 2000 monks at one time and is noted as China’s most famous monastery. Due to the fact that Shaolin Kung Fu was taught and passed down orally much of the story of its beginnings are a mixture of historical fact intermingled with legend.