Self Defense
Knockout of the century! (Nocaute do seculo!) Awesome! Though brutal, this is a beautifully executed spinning wheel kick. Watch this again, because it is the Platonic ideal of fighting beautifully in a unrehearsed, unchoreographed fighting competition. High spinning kicks to the head, common to capoeira, tae kwon do, hapkido and certain northern kung fu systems [...]
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A core TanDao self defense technique. Realistic and effective. This is NOT a sparring technique. It is only for use in a life and death situation! Just for Subscribers….Sign up for our newsletter – and get an extra video with a secret tip to augment the Tiger Mouth. Tweet
One of the intentions of TanDao Fight Lab is comparative combat. A characteristic of Evolving Martial Artists is the ability to intelligently compare techniques from different styles. Our purpose is not to diss one technique over another, but to develop critical thinking to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a technique or system. In doing [...]
TanDao Fight Lab: Where Art & Science Converge Bruce Lee revolutionized martial arts by westernizing the eastern tradition. How? By creating a science of combat. Traditional kung fu and karate until the seventies were secret arts. The deliberate obfuscation of knowledge has today’s traditionalists sometimes teaching overly stylized techniques that are not practical. Or, excess [...]
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Now with the launch of our new vbook, TanDao for Evolving Martial Artists, we can begin discussing Jeet Kune Do (JKD), Shaolin Five Animals and Tan’s Dazzling Hands more freely. Prior to this, our videos and posts have focused on general ideas of martial arts, with an emphasis on kung fu. As a new system [...]
