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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Tag: Martial Arts

Japan’s Shorinji martial art attracts young and old

Amid sweltering heat one late July afternoon — at one point the mercury reached 35.2 C — spirited cries of “Aah” and “Sei” echoed through the doin training center of the Shorinji kempo headquarters in Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture. About 30 men and women wearing white uniforms and aged from 4 to 75 welcomed the reporter with their hands joined in front of their chests.

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Wing Chun: Martial art of the legends

Across time and continents, the martial art that makes masters into legends, Wing Chun kung fu, is now in the Philippines. Fusing physical form and technique and inner spiritual meditation, one might say that it is a perfect mix of fighting arts and yoga. Its popularity can be traced back 400 years to simple origins in China. What is now known as a study in the perfection of power and form was, in-fact, rooted in the desperate tale of a seemingly powerless woman, Yim Wing Chun, after which it was named.

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