- Iranian taekwondo team gets practice for the Olympics.
The manager of the Iranian team Gholam-Hassan Zolqadr told IRNA that the international tournament is a good opportunity for Iran’s taekwondo team to test their own and their rivals’ skills for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
- Judo burns 600 calories an hour along with many other benefits.
“It’s one of the few sports that covers all the facets of fitness,” says Neil Maclean-Martin, the lead physiotherapist for the British judo team, and is a great calorie burner – at about 600 an hour.
- Hotel clerk uses karate skills to beat up unruly customer!
A Filipino front office receptionist in a private hospital in Madinah got fed up with an irate woman. A fight ensued and the receptionist pulled out her karate skills, beating the woman up.
- Windsor teen travels to Scotland for karate tournament.
Armour has been involved in karate for 10…Only eight when he first tried karate, Armour had goals from day one. “I knew I wanted to be in shape. From there it turned into a whole other world- discipline, respect- all the things an athlete should be involved in.”
- A Cuban judoka defects.
Laborde, the favorite to win a gold medal in Beijing this summer, relinquished that chance when she left the 18-person Cuban judo delegation on May 11, the last day of competition at the Pan American Championships at the James L. Knight Center in Miami.
- Iranian takwondoists win three gold medals.
On the first day of the International Taekwondo Tournament underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Iranian taekwondo players won three gold medals and one silver.
- Martial arts expert gets Ph.D. in martial arts.
“It just means I’m old and people will have to call me doctor now, that’s all,” McElroy joked.
- The Way of Least Resistance talks about internal and external martial arts.
Chen Pan Ling said the that goal of every “external” artist should be to become softer. Correspondingly the goal of every “internal” artist should be to become harder.
- My Self-Defense Blog discusses how to make karate training work in a self-defense situation.
For many of you that have taken karate lessons and learned how to do all of the basics, you may still be wondering; Will it really work?
That’s a wrap for this week!
~BCP
