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    city and at the monastery. The Shaolin Monastery is a combination of supernatural powers of Buddhism and the wisdom of Chan Buddhism. The Buddhism belief and Chan wisdom is the cultural connection that one gets from meditating at this monastery. Martial arts are ways of defense amongst the Asian culture, and the Shaolin Kung Fu was developed to help train the monks’ bodies because the Chinese people believed that too much meditation will develop a weak body (Shaolin Temple). That being said, Benny

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    Kung Fu vs Aikido Essay

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    Fight If one had to choose between Kung Fu skills and Aikido skills, the better choice would be Kung Fu. If asked, a lot of people would not know the difference between Kung Fu and Aikido. They may know that both Aikido and Kung Fu are types of martial arts, but that wouldn’t tell us much about Kung Fu or Aikido. Kung Fu is juxtaposed with Aikido because of the different cultures they came from, which determines how one approaches one’s enemy, whether it is more defensively or offensively. Kung

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    Introduction In this research proposal, we aim to discuss the role social media has on the growth of Mixed Martial Arts. This study was chosen because there is no getting around the fact that social media has changed the way we communicate and interact. The biggest change is the sheer number of people using social media websites and the interaction with each other. The genre of MMA was chosen because it is a relatively new sport, but despite that, it has been gaining grave amounts of publicity

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    Ufc History

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    The Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC, was founded back in 1993 and is the world’s leading professional mixed martial arts, or MMA, organization. The UFC has evolved into an organization where athletes have to learn different disciplines of MMA in order to reach and stay in the UFC. The different forms include karate, jiu-jitsu, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and other methods of MMA. Early on the UFC used a tournament style event and it wasn’t until UFC 18 when they abandoned that format for

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    why martial arts fail to prepare people for self defense. I will elaborate on the topic in this chapter. Bruce Lee said it and now i’m going to repeat it - styles limit minds! Think about it. You pay for a class in Wing Chun, Wushu, Krav Maga, Judo, or any style and what do you learn? Forms, drills, techniques, moves, and rules. You spend countless hours practicing forms, never knowing what they are for. You spend almost no time applying them completely in combat. You are enslaved by the art. You

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    KNEE STRIKES This indispensable technique in MMA is usable in from clinch fight to counterattack. We can say the knee strike is the most important of all kicking techniques in MMA. You can find out a chance to use this technique in a wide variety of situations, such as in a counterattack against takedown, in grappling phase, even in ground fight. In Zendokai training system, the knee strike is practiced as an essential one to cope with each situation where you can use this versatile weapon. Tips

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    Jiu Jitsu is an ancient samurai unarmed fighting. Japanese Jiu Jitsu mostly focuses on grappling. The idea of Jiu Jitsu is to manipulate your opponents force against him. Japanese Jiu Jitsu is meant for close combat in order to defeat an armed and armored opponent in which one uses no weapon or only a short weapon. Because striking against an armored opponent proved in effective , practitioners of Jiu Jitsu learned that the most efficient method for neutralizing an enemy is forms of pins, joint locks

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    “Extenuating circumstances, better known as the modern day escape hatch. Yeah, that’s a pretty fuckin’ harsh prononcment but I’m not the kinda’ guy who is gonna’ waste time waxing poetic. I’ve gone on the record as sayin’ that I hate the extracurricular fireworks that go on in this business. To me our job as fighters is simple: we show up, beat the hell of each other and get paid. It’d be great if that was what it was like but nope there always has to be a catch with the modern day fighter. There

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    How does Petey get all the strength he has to do all the stuff he did? In “The Other Pin” by Chris Crutcher, Petey has to be strong to overcome struggles. The Strength of personality can get you where you never thought you will be in with the crowed. Petey has the strength to stick with fighting Chris and not letting down his team. He was nervous to fight her but he had to do it for his team and to get him on the varsity team. He didn’t want to volunteer at first, but “Jonny pinches the inside of

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    Karate kid Exam By Ji Maciejewski Jayden Smith plays the character, Dre Parker, a 12 year old boy in the film Karate Kid (2010), directed by Harold zwartz. I chose to analysis Dre Parker for several reasons. Instead of taking the easy way out he choose to take steps to resolve the situation, his actions were very powerful. His relationships with people show us what type of boy Dre is like. I also like the style of Dre, a stereotypical teenager, how he dresses, and the way he acts. I will also be

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