Pressure points are common terms in the traditional Chinese medicine and referred to those points on the human body where the nerve system forms a cross, a Y split or when the nerves are on the surface and protected only by the skin (usually the nerves are located behind the muscles).
Tai Chi or T’ai Chi Ch’uan is a martial art style that focuses mostly on developing the mind and the spirit along with the body and not just the body of the practitioner.
On December 14, 1883, Morihei Ueshiba was born, in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. He was the fourth child in his family. His early life was filled with illness, and he was very sensitive. At a young age, he began studying in a private school of Buddhism.
Capoeira history begins with the first black slaves brought from Africa to work on sugar cane plantations and tobacco in Brazil. These slaves came from different regions and cultures of Africa, most of the Bantu tribe of Africa and the West. Realizes their new condition of forced labor to work forever, some slaves began to flee and even to rebel.
Ashihara Karate use a scientific logic, a rationality based on the exclusion of all things natural and unnecessary. Karate’s traditional emphasis on techniques or soft, mild, or solely on force. In today’s society requires a more realistic form of karate, one in which the speed, strength, intelligence and strategy are all included.
This Martial Arts Style comes from Okinawa, a province south of Japan. Since Okinawa was dominated by the Japanese for Centuries the people needed a method of fighting against their enemies. IsshinRyu is one of those fighting styles.
