Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win. Victory is achieved if the opponent is knocked [...]

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and ground fighting. Jiu-Jitsu derived in the early 20th century from the Japanese martial art of Kodokan Judo which was a recently-developed system (having been founded in 1882). Jiu-Jitsu is based on multiple schools (or Ryu) of Japanese jujutsu.
Jiu-Jitsu promotes the principle [...]

Budokon

“Budokon (bu-do-kon), is a living art. By that I mean it is the art of living. It is your waking and your sleeping, your walking and your sitting, your living and your dying. I cannot say that it is more special than any other art. In fact, it is not special at all. It is [...]

Capoeira

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, games, music, and dance. It was created in Brazil by slaves brought from Africa, especially from present day Angola some time after the 16th century. Participants form a roda, or circle, and take turns either playing musical instruments (such as the Berimbau),singing, or ritually sparring in pairs in the center of the circle. [...]

Fencing

Fencing is a family of sports and activities that feature armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or bludgeoning weapons that are directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned. Originating in the fifteenth century as a way for the nobility of Britain and Europe to practice their swordsmanship safely without risking serious injury as [...]

Gymanastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance and grace. Artistic Gymnastics, typically involves the women’s events of uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault. Men’s events include floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by [...]

Haganah-self defense

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.
Integrated Defensive Fighting Systems, Inc. (IDFS) presents the Fierce Israeli Guerilla Hand-to-hand Tactics (F.I.G.H.T.) program. The F.I.G.H.T. program uses the most effective self-defense system available today – [...]

Ice Skating

Ice skating is moving on ice by use of ice skates. It is a great full body workout that can be done for leisure and fun as well as various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water such as lakes and rivers. South [...]

Indoor Skateboarding

Skateboarding was probably born sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s when surfers in California wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. No one knows who made the first board, rather, it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at around the same time. These first skateboarders started with wooden [...]

Indoor Snowboarding/Skiing

Snowboarding is an eXtreme sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider’s feet using a special boot set into a flexible mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A. in the 1960s and the [...]