The Eight Principles of Martial Arts by Wayne Roberts On the wall of our dojo in Basingstoke is a list of 8 words that face students every day when we train. I have to admit that even though I have previously looked at these words many times, I don’t...
REPORT 5 – SOFT AND HARD MARTIAL ARTS Baguazhang and Boxing And so to the final part of this part of my project – looking at 5 hard and 5 soft Martial Arts. I deliberately saved boxing until last as it is quite controversial in its inclusion and also Baguazhang as...
REPORT 2 – SOFT AND HARD MARTIAL ARTS Judo and Taekwondo This is part 2 of my 2nd dan research project – comparing and contrasting 5 hard and 5 soft Martial Arts. This report contains research on judo and taekwondo – hopefully there should be some familiar...
REPORT 1 – SOFT AND HARD MARTIAL ARTS by Katherine White Hapkido and Bajiquan WHAT IS A MARTIAL ART? Before any Martial Art, hard or soft, can be looked at, it needs to be understood what is meant by these terms. There is no one, definite, definition of what is...
The main element to my research project, as part of my 2nd dan grading, is to compare and contrast 5 “hard” and 5 “soft” styles of martial arts – looking at their key underlying principles and methods of power generation and also looking at how these different styles...
