Daniel Land, 1st June 2009
Hi, I'm Dan. I made this site with the intention of debunking a lot of misconceptions about martial arts.
There's a lot of hollywood action movies which are well choreographed, but the majority are not; and the result of this is that people look at inefficient, wild, unbalanced movements and consider them to be powerful. To make matters worse, there are endless businessmen setting up martial arts clubs, claiming to be experts, making lots of money and fooling lots of innocent students.
My main weakness may be in maintaining smoothness & balance during sharp footwork. After lots of sticking hands experience, I need to train more with my stances.
Bruce Lee, sticking hands. RIP (20/07/1973)
300 years ago, the Shaolin Temple was burnt down by spies, but 5 grandmasters escaped. 4 monks and 1 nun. The nun went on to invent Sticky Hands, possibly the greatest empty-handed close-quarter-combat training exercise known to man.
Can you block punches, coming fast and random, when blindfolded?
Sticking hands is about as important for the hands as moonwalking is for the feet. Indeed, the moonwalk can be called sticking feet.
Sticking hands may be the best training exercise. The moonwalk may be the best solo training exercise. Bruce Lee described sticking hands as the basic method of defence in Jeet Kune Do, alongside "alive hands" in attack.
Click here to read more about sticking hands
Michael Jackson, dancing. RIP (25/06/2009)
The opening of a neutral martial arts stance, from feet together to feet apart, for example as is done in Wing Chun Kung Fu, is an efficient way of practicing the bare necessities of the moonwalk. Moonwalking (travelling with both feet flat on the ground at all times) is a very useful, advanced practice in martial arts; whereby one adjusts to compliment the position of their opponent, without leaning to any side at any time, and without compromising the stability of having two anchors (feet on the ground) at all times.
It's an easy way to learn about real martial art online. Just watch what I watch, as I criticise some videos on YouTube. It's nothing personal against the recipients of my critiques; it's just an easy way for me to generate content for this website, using a cool new tool called Jing!