David-Dorian Ross – Martial Arts for Your Mind and Body

David-Dorian Ross – Martial Arts for Your Mind and Body

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What Will You Discover?

Learn about various martial arts disciplines such as kung fu, karate, tae kwon do, judo, jeet kune do, and krav maga.

Learn about the physical and mental components of martial arts, from perfect block, kick, and punch form to the self-discipline and attention required to succeed.

Learn the appropriate methods from eight world-class specialists so you can do them at home and elsewhere.

Combat sports. This word conjures up visions of peak physical and mental fitness—speed, flexibility, and strength combined with meditation, focus, and self-discipline, an image heightened by everything from exquisitely choreographed Hollywood films to MMA cage battles. However, the term “martial arts” refers to a vast array of helpful and highly specialized disciplines, ranging from kung fu to tai chi to jeet kune do.

One of the most difficult components of learning martial arts is figuring out what works best for you. What’s the difference between karate and tae kwon do’s rapid jabs and fierce kicks, judo’s grapples and rolls, tai chi’s flowing forms, and Krav Maga’s street-fighting grit? These fighting styles have some characteristics, but each has its own philosophy as well as a physical and mental approach. Yet, far too frequently, students and potential students are unable to experience and profit from the wide range of opportunities available in the martial arts.

Martial Arts for Your Mind and Body provides an intensive introduction to nine famous martial arts disciplines. These 25 engaging courses (one more than a regular course) provide you a thorough background in the many concepts, styles, and methods of the main martial arts families, hosted and brought together by tai chi Grandmaster David-Dorian Ross. Master Ross has hand-picked seven guest professors who are award-winning specialists in their industries for this course. Your teachers are the greatest of the best, whether sensei, sifu, or champion competitors.

You don’t have to be a cross-training warrior or an MMA fighter to gain from learning about other martial arts. In reality, with proper instruction, practicing martial arts provides important physical and emotional advantages to people of all ages and fitness levels. Martial Arts for Your Mind and Body is an excellent location to start, restart, or enhance your practice, from self-defense to the physical advantages of a disciplined workout program to the balance and harmony that learning martial arts can offer to all parts of your life.

Examine Nine Martial Arts Families

David-Dorian Ross has created a survey of the martial arts that provides a unique basis for greater physical and mental training, all of which can assist you in identifying certain practices and traditions that may be especially beneficial to you. The course allows you to go through the same kinds of discoveries that Master Ross went through as a young practitioner when he was looking for the perfect martial arts style for himself. Master Ross takes you on a tour of the following locations, accompanied by seven guest instructors:

Karate, or “empty hand,” is the most well-known Japanese martial art in the West. Learn the physical and mental methods that make it such a tough exercise, from kicking to kata.
Tae Kwon Do: Tae kwon do, like karate, is famed for its lightning-fast high kicks and shattering of boards. Discover why this style became so popular so fast after its birth in post-World War II Korea, and what distinguishes it from other martial arts.
Kung Fu: This technique, which dates back to the 5th century in China, has impacted most other forms of Chinese martial arts and has been codified into hundreds of varieties, many of which are named after animals. Discover the history and fundamental methods of kung fu as you study the white crane style for close- to medium-range contact and then the praying mantis style for maximizing your reach.
Tai Chi: Martial arts are about more than just speed and ferocious battle. Tai chi includes that option, but it is most known for cultivating calm, elegant motions, which have several health advantages. Tai chi (taiji quan) originated in China in the 17th century.
Judo: Judo is a Japanese martial art known for its grappling, flipping, and throwing techniques. Practice “the method of kindness” exercises and techniques. Judo was the first martial art to employ a belt system to classify combatants by ability level.
Jujitsu: Similar to judo, Japanese Jujutsu and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu are “pliable combat arts,” use groundwork and wrestling grips to gain control of the opponent. Prepare to take on new shapes!
Muay Thai: Muay Thai, which originated in Thailand but is more often known as kickboxing in the West, is unusual among martial arts in that it integrates shins, elbows, and the clinch into its fighting technique. Discover why Muay Thai is so popular among MMA fighters.
Jeet Kune Do: Developed by Bruce Lee as a combination of traditional Asian martial arts and more modern, global systems, jeet kune do is intriguing for the way each unique practitioner may adapt and modify it.
Krav Maga: Combining aspects of jujitsu, boxing, wrestling, and other martial arts, Krav Maga forms a style of street combat about what to do in circumstances when there are no rules. Krav Maga, which began as a method for Polish Jews to protect themselves against fascists, is the Israeli Defense Forces’ distinctive combat style.

Along with these primary families, you will learn about qigong, a method for understanding and working with energy, or Qi, that is commonly practiced with other martial arts such as tai chi. You’ll also study meditation methods and other parts of the martial arts’ mental and even spiritual side.

Learn how to take stances, block, kick, and chop.

While Master Ross and his colleagues explain and live the theories and aspirations of their separate disciplines, this is a very interactive workshop. Each of these courses, held in a unique dojo-style facility, allows you to work out alongside the teachers, giving you a full immersion in the martial arts. Warmups, drills, shadowboxing, combinations, and partnered workouts are all part of the workout. For example, you will:

To strengthen your mental toughness, do a prolonged “horse stance” exercise.
Learn kata with Sensei Akira Fukuda, Team USA Olympic coach and master of all five karate systems.
Master Ross’ TaijiFit flow training can help you improve your physical and emotional health.
Grandmaster Dave Wheaton will lead you through a series of one-step sparring routines.
Followed by a combo exercise, perform a sequence of closed fist and open palm kung fu blows.
Kathy Long, a five-time world kickboxing champion, explains the “why” of Muay Thai kickboxing combos.
Learn how to resist against chokes, shirt grabs, and behind-the-back strikes in the Krav Maga street fighting method.
And a lot more.

Mental Practice, Physical Mastery

In this lesson, Master Ross’s method is to halt and provide tips for each technique. Master Ross’s vast grasp of how to assist anybody gain the advantages of martial arts assures that you may join in and engage safely from session one. You’ll be ready to punch, kick, block, and grapple your way to better physical fitness with this novel strategy.

Of course, martial arts training is about more than just physical health or self-defense. Regular training in more than one martial art enhances all parts of your life, giving you more concentration, confidence, and self-discipline. This course’s unprecedented experience with nine forms will provide you with new insights into what martial arts are all about, as well as increased clarity about your own life and aspirations. Martial Arts for Your Mind and Body will show you how to be your best self.

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