The Way of the Empty Hand

Traditional Karate, mostly. Videos, photos, articles and info

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rensai_kamo

One minute! Assortment of Tenshin-ryu [Dai-to, Tachi-ai] for busy people.

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Mantis Kung Fu VS. MMA (video)

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[Blue glove: drops guard and pulls hand back as part of jab+ counter. Red glove: retracts hand then upper cuts without any shifting as soon as he sees the opening. Maybe when he sees the torso move before the hand? Doesn’t drop his guard. I think moves it up to protect his glface from the jab?]

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Kanō Jigoro, the legendary founder of Judo. Despite being a smaller man, he could toss large men with ease, but only after persistent studying and practice. On his death bed, he asked that he be buried in a white belt instead of a black belt. He wanted to be remembered as a learner, not a master.

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Oscar Isaac in stunt rehearsals for Disney+’s Moon Knight [PART 1]

via @madgenemedia on instagram

Bonus:

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[alwaysbewoke]

This white supremacists was harassing an Asian American man then attempted a physical attack. This is how that went.

[ar-152017]

I see nothing wrong here..#CarryOn

[peterparkoure]

This is obviously terrible that the man was being harassed but why did I laugh when the the white man just kicked off his flip flops? 😂

[alwaysbewoke]

Because he kicked them off like he was about to do something and just got knocked the fuck out.

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Hong Kong protesters adopt ‘be water’ Bruce Lee tactic to evade police crackdown

Pro-democracy demonstrators aim for amorphous approach to respond to authorities, writes Erin Hale in Hong Kong

build a Les Miserables style barricade, then when the cannons show up just melt into the surrounding streets and build another barricade somewhere else.

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been thinking about this ever since, it’s interesting how homogenised the riot police response is around the world now, whether it’s in Hong Kong or BLM protests or the tradie revolt in Melbourne today.

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Judoku: This short documentary tells the story of Doug Rogers, a young Canadian athlete who developed a talent for judo that led him into competition for the world championship at the Tokyo Olympics and subsequent competition at the Pan-American Games. The film shows the intensive judo training Rogers took at a Tokyo college, as well as glimpses of his life in Japan.

Directed by Josef Reeve - 1965 | 18 min

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Women Self Defense in 1947

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I’m not sure what’s the best part of this video: the fact that she’s in heels, the fact that she does the whole thing looking like she don’t give a fuck, that chick in the back just exercising and enjoying the show, or the fact that both men and women are observing this and the girls are laughing and the guys look concerned/pensive as fuck as they watch all their tactics get shut down like nothing is even happening.

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… msties is it just me or is this familiar?

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Some of these are moves I haven’t seen before.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Some of this looks similar to the self defense I learned in a course three or four years ago. It’s definitely got some judo in it (arm bars, throws, fighting to and from the ground). I love this lady. She is rad. I feel like she, much like the rad lady I had as my self defense teacher, would also warn the women that if they don’t think they can gouge out someone’s eyes, don’t start trying because you’ll attack better with something you can follow through on.

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crimelords I’m sorry I couldn’t not reblog this for you

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The cheerful music makes it even better