a place to discuss the various European martial traditions that either currently active or have been in the past. Some of the topics will include: Boxing, Wrestling in all of it's european forms, Savate, Sambo, Pankration, Faction Fighting, Fencing, Rapier, Longsword, Broadsword any western style sword you can imagine! Pole arms from axes to spears! and anything else of european martial descent.
... Hi Ralph, I agree, I have seen some of the Russian stuff really resemble the White Crane/CLF styles of striking. I guess there are only so many ways to
ken, after seing some of these firsthand from scott sonnon--they remind us greatly of white crane/choy le fut/shalion long fist punces--also a little of la
... Hi Chris, We are using the casting method from Russian fisticuffs, we got some good first hand instruction from Randal Gustitis (A ROSS instructor) several
We started off with about 30 minutes of German longsword today. Mostly working the zornhau into the bind and what to do afterwards. 2 rds shadow boxing After