Karate
A YouTube viewer commented on our Dragon Knockout video: “…why not just step into a twisted horse stance and then unwind rather than jump into a twisted horse stance. I call this Steal-A-Step, by keeping your hands still in space and stepping into a twisted horse stance your opponent will never know you’ve moved if [...]
Hi All, TanDao Fight Lab’s Within the Flow, introduces Tan’s Dazzling Hands (TDH, the internal stage of TanDao) dynamic free flow movement. Graceful and fluid. “Hao kan, bu hao yong,” is a Chinese phrase that means: “it looks good, but is useless.” We realize that to modern reality based fighters, who view martial arts through [...]
A thank you to Iain Abernethy, the prominent karate author and teacher, for an insightful observation about martial arts. Woke me up. It’s a truth many martial artists discover, but rarely talk about. This secret is obscured by the obvious focus on self defense training and perfecting technical skills. When we think of martial arts [...]
In Enter the Dragon, a karateka (Bob Wall) shatters a wooden board with his punch to intimidate Bruce Lee before a fight. Lee gives his famous retort, “Boards don’t hit back.” A somewhat similar comment was made regarding the animal and TDH strikes on our loyal training dummy, Big Wang, who endures punishment without complaint [...]
