Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts

Friday, November 26, 2010

Combat Sports - Cambodian Pradal Serey Freestyle Kickboxing

Sometimes you will hear Pradal Serey being called Bradahl Serei. This style of Kickboxing comes out of Cambodia. This Combat Sport style was originally used in Battle, but now Cambodia considers it one of their National Sports. Modern Rules have caused some of the moves they used to have changed a little bit. The main focus of this sport is to win a competition as it is a rule based sport. Similar to Muay Thai Boxing, this sport focuses in 4 major strikes which originate from the knees, elbows, fists and feet.

The clinch is also used as a way or tiring and fatiguing their opponent. Pradal Serey uses more stealth and and shifty fighting stances which differentiates them from most other forms of Southeast Asian Style Kickboxing forms. Elbows are also used more often than in a lot of other styles. The elbow has been responsible for more wins than any other strike used. Fighting has been going on within the Southeast Asia Region since ancient times. Eventually Combat Sports developed as a result of this.

The Khmers in the Angkor Era developed and used armed and unarmed martial arts styles. In fact there was a style that closely resembled Pradal Serey around the 10th Century. People think this could be the reason that the Khmers had such great success in Southeast Asia during that time period. Angkor also used an ancient form of this Combat Sport with other weapons as well as War Elephants to go to war against Champa from Cambodia and Siam from Thailand. Around the 10th century, they controlled most of Cambodia, as well as Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.

Because of this, Cambodia has had a huge impact on Lao as well as Thai Culture. The Khmer have a belief that Kickboxing in Southeast Asia started with the Mon Khmer. Many Europeans around the Colonial Period were not in favor of Pradal Serey because they considered it too brutal.

The French adopted the idea of this sport but made some enhancements to it, which included timed rounds and the use of boxing gloves to prevent excessive injury. In the old days matches used to take place in dirt pits with rope wrapped hands and very few rules. Seashells were even wrapped around the knuckles of some boxers to make the fights more brutal.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Situational Part 1 - or what is lacking in self-defense against sports Fighters Street Fighters

The importance of situational awareness in the modern self-defense street simply can not be stressed enough. In the ring or cage, you always know that you are fighting against a person, no other weapon that its two arms and two legs and you know it will not sound until after the attack.

On the road, things are different. You never know how many people attack you if you are armed when to attack and when to stop. This is why TRAINEDSport-fighters usually loose against street fighters with experience:

Hunting sports stabbed and then says, "I will never see the knife," because he is training for a fair fight, without weapons, and Street Fighter enough to draw palm trees and expect to be good experience, until he cut his victim before.

A fighter takes sports Street Fighter on the ground and his head kicked in Street Fighter five friends, for the luxury of being trained in a cagewith only one opponent and the arbiter of "good things".

A fighter sport becomes sucker punches and then says, "I did not see coming a stamp," because it has been trained not to expect that the attacks only after ringing the bell, while the Street Fighter is experienced enough to know that the person landed first shot is usually a street fight to win.

I have seen this phenomenon many times before. The last time was when I had a boxing Thai fighters and trainers in a workshop;whole class tried to compare him to me, in terms of "who is better", "Who can beat that" and so on, "the most difficult." When you practice blocking traffic with RPGs, he stayed at the car door and asked me if I wanted, and open the trunk. I said yes, when you reach the rubber knife I had hidden under my left thigh. I opened the door with his left hand, the knife hidden behind the cabin door and thrust the knife into his chest, just below his rib cage. What hedo? Nothing at first, but then jumped in a boxing position, looked down on the rubber knife "attack" muttered a profanity in the chest and realized that it would be fatal, long before he knew he was in a combat wounded.

Who would have won in the ring? I do not know. I give him the benefit of the doubt and say he would. But remember, do not train for the sport weakest link, and is always ready for street duty, so I guess that was able to learnmuch of myself that I have of him. And the likelihood of an inexperienced fighters sport recovering from a broken nose tends to be better than an inexperienced Street Fighter is recovering from a throat cut.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Evolving sports bags and their role

There was a time when people used the bags as sports Flights minor accessory. One-size-fits-all is the usual practice, because people do not see the potential of this bag in the design of the overall experience of sport. It began to change slowly, and now the sports bag so that you will find another design for all types of sports and all kinds of people taste. From swimming to football and professional footballers inThe mothers, there is a sports bag that fits the purpose.

Many designs can be seen today, and it is something very robust that area very fancy. Each is designed exhaustive per minute, the differences in each sport and taste to respond. If a project is done is done with a potential user in mind. Today is the style statement of the sports bags provided also assumes a very important role. The sport has become a social event and it is not uncommon to seeThe girls go to the football field trials beauty contest.

The development of the sports bag also took account of their role in attracting more young people into the sport. This is in keeping so busy that many young people do not have the time, alcohol, drugs, and many other bad things try to help them fall into the rule. Sport is a great way to stay clean, sober and safe.

There are many options when it comes to a new gym bag to arrive today.