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Monday, January 31, 2011
Ashtanga Yoga
Who thinks Yoga is for girls, go stand in the corner!
Yoga has always been a discipline for everyone, indeed yogi mystics in India are very often men.
It also well known that Yoga promotes longevity, suppleness and strength, as well as balance.
Who also knows that Shaolin style is derived from Ashtanga Yoga?
I took a few classes after recovering from my back injury and from the first exercise to the last, I had done each one a million times before in Shaolin Style Kung Fu!
Ashtanga is also known as the warrior yoga form and it's possible, in fact, downright certain, that is the form that Bodhidharma passed to the monks of Shaolin.
The incredible thing about yoga is that it not only builds balance, utilising all the little muscles in your body, especially your spine, but it also promotes tendon strength.
What's that?
Tendon strength holds your skeleton together, keeps your joints glued to their sockets and provides your inherent strength beyond how much you can lift in kilos.
Keeping your tendons strong and flexible keeps your training at the optimum, injuries to a minimum, so anyone looking at a complete holistic training needs to add some yoga to their repertoire, though if you start flying or phasing through walls, you'd best slow it down!
Yoga has always been a discipline for everyone, indeed yogi mystics in India are very often men.
It also well known that Yoga promotes longevity, suppleness and strength, as well as balance.
Who also knows that Shaolin style is derived from Ashtanga Yoga?
I took a few classes after recovering from my back injury and from the first exercise to the last, I had done each one a million times before in Shaolin Style Kung Fu!
Ashtanga is also known as the warrior yoga form and it's possible, in fact, downright certain, that is the form that Bodhidharma passed to the monks of Shaolin.
The incredible thing about yoga is that it not only builds balance, utilising all the little muscles in your body, especially your spine, but it also promotes tendon strength.
What's that?
Tendon strength holds your skeleton together, keeps your joints glued to their sockets and provides your inherent strength beyond how much you can lift in kilos.
Keeping your tendons strong and flexible keeps your training at the optimum, injuries to a minimum, so anyone looking at a complete holistic training needs to add some yoga to their repertoire, though if you start flying or phasing through walls, you'd best slow it down!
Labels: Ashtanga Yoga, Bodhidharma, Shaolin, tendon, training, warrior, Yoga
Dragon Martial Arts makes the news
One of my oldest friends and kung fu brother, Tom Braithwaite has become one of the first Westerners to judge a kung fu competition in FoShan in Canton, home of southern style kung fu.
Here is a link to the BBC interview of him on his website, Dragon Martial Arts: http://www.dmaa.co.uk/videos
He also has the accolade of being the only Westerner to have won gold in Hong Kong's internal martial arts competition and is fast becoming one of the most respected Kung Fu masters this side of China!
Look him up if you're in the Brighton area.
Here is a link to the BBC interview of him on his website, Dragon Martial Arts: http://www.dmaa.co.uk/videos
He also has the accolade of being the only Westerner to have won gold in Hong Kong's internal martial arts competition and is fast becoming one of the most respected Kung Fu masters this side of China!
Look him up if you're in the Brighton area.
Labels: Canton, Dragon Martial Arts, FoShan, Gold, internal, Kung Fu, Tom Braithwaite, Westerner
