How To Training Martial Art: Martial Dance

These are 3 exercise activities often trained in martial dance clubs like Wushu Taolu, Karate Kata, Taekwondo Poomsae, Kenpo Kata, Tai Chi and Pencak Silat.

1. Warming Up

Begin your training with stretching exercise slowly.

Once finished, take a short break for 1 minute.

2. Choreography Training

In martial dance clubs, they use "Colorful Belts" rank system to make the training process easier. Each belt ranks must mastering 1 new choreography / martial dance form.

For example is in Karate Kata club: White belt must mastering Heian Shodan (1st choreo), yellow belt must learn Heian Nidan (2nd choreo), green belt must learn Heian Sandan (3rd choreo), blue belt must learn Heian Yondan (4th choreo), brown belt must learn Heian Godan (5th choreo) and black belt must mastering all basic choreos (plus some advanced choreos).

Once finished, take a short break for 1 minute.

3. Cooling Down 

End your training with cooling down slowly.

Kyokushin

Kyokushin (極真) is a hybrid fighting style created in 1964 by Korean - Japanese Masutatsu Oyama. Mix of Karate and Kickboxing.

Between 1946 and 1950, Mas Oyama trained Karate at Kanbukan Dojo, Karate was practised with Bogu / protective gear (Bogutsuki Karate) which allowed for delivering strikes with full force without fatal injuries. Kanbukan training have influenced Oyama's full contact fighting mentality.

In 60s, Open - Mixed Martial Art Tournaments are very popular. Sadly, there are many Japanese Karate fighters who lose against foreign martial arts like Muay Thai - Kickboxing - Boxing at that time. Oyama want to created new Karate style which dynamic and effective against other modern fighting styles like Boxing and Muay Thai. Then Oyama created his own powerful fighting style named Kyokushin.

Taikiken

Taikiken (太氣拳) is a Japanese martial art created by Kenichi Sawai in 1947. Developed from Kungfu he learn from Wang Xiangzhai, founder of Yi Quan school.

Kenichi Sawai was colonel in Japanese army during World War 2. In 1931, he moved to Manchuria (China), he met and asking Wang Xiangzhai for duel. He made several attempts to defeat Wang, including one where he fought with a shinai whilst Wang used only a stick. However, Kenichi was defeated each time. Kenichi subsequently pleaded for a week to be taught Yi Quan by Wang. Initially, Wang had principle of not accepting foreign students, but saw Sawai's enthusiasm as earnest and took him as his pupil.

Kenichi returned to Japan in 1947. Since Yi Quan was a foreign style, Sawai had to rename the style in order to spread it to native Japanese people. Initially, the style was to be called Taiseiken, but with permission from Wang Xiangzhai, he added a single letter "ki", and founded Taiki Seiseikenpo (Taikiken). Subsequently, he started practising with a few disciples at Meiji Shrine. Following the Taoist teachings of his teacher, he practiced in nature and did not have a permanent dojo.

Krav Maga

Fighting style created by Hungarian-born Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld in 1948.

Having grown up in Bratislava during a time of anti-Semitic unrest, Lichtenfeld used his training as a boxer and wrestler to defend Jewish neighborhoods in the mid-to-late 1930s. After his immigration to Mandatory Palestine in the late 1940s, he began to provide lessons on combat training to Jewish paramilitary groups that would later form the IDF during the 1948 Palestine war. As an instructor, he compiled his knowledge and experience into the combat system that would later become known as Krav Maga.