The main style I train in right now is Tang Soo Do (Soo Bahk Do) Moo Duk Kwan, especially since a school of this style is located right next to where I'm currently living! While training there I have often heard Sah Bum Nim explain how the ChilSung (Seven Stars) forms were developed by Hwang Kee ...

Great Wing Chun site!!

The links in the middle might not have worked before this, I just edited them, now they should work too.

Some interesting articles on this:
www.drearic.com/sass1-sleightofhand.html
www.drearic.com/SignalsKeating.htm
www.drearic.com/Magichoudini.htm
www.alliancemartialarts.com/magic.html


[This message has been edited by the Khazar Kid (edited September 29, 2002).]

The English also have their own traditional wrestling and grappling arts, which are still practiced! Catch-as-Catch-Can (all-in submission holds style on the ground very few rules) from Lancashire, Collar-and-Yoke from Cornwall and Devonshire, Backhold from Cumberland and Scotland.

Catch-as-Catch ...

Apparently a good deal has been written recently on sleight-of-hand in fighting:
www.alliancemartialarts.com/magic.html www.drearic.com/sass1-sleightofhand.html www.drearic.com/SignalsKeating.htm www.drearic.com/Magichoudini.htm

"Cestari stresses keeping the body tense. Train in stiff, gross body motion. You are going to be tense anyway, so train for it."

Just like TSD and all other traditional "hard-style" karate!

"Cestari emphasizes that close combat footwork is ALL stomping, including the drop step. Stomping is ...

I've begun training in Tang Soo Do recently, after a previous background in mainly boxing and kickboxing. In contrast to the fluid footwork and punches of boxing, Tang Soo Do teaches high stomping steps and tense shoulder-locked punches. Up until recently I prefered the apparently more fast ...