Karate for kids at Total Ryu A few weeks ago, I mentioned three great reasons to have your child start or continue to participate in martial arts, karate and jujitsu, for kids from Total Ryu Martial Arts. As previously mentioned, martial arts training exceeds most sports in developing key physical abilities and lifetime confidence. There are many,…
An adult will receive the same benefits a child gets from martial arts training. To reiterate, these are confidence, physical activity, agility, achievement, cooperation, and self-defense. Martial arts training in either karate or traditional jujitsu at Total Ryu will give you these benefits and more, as described below. The great thing about training with us is that…
Total Ryu Martial Arts Mat Chat It’s hard to know where to start with this one. The benefits of martial arts or karate are huge, from health to confidence to, of course, self-defense. Let’s start with what we (myself and my wife) have noticed in kids whom we have had the pleasure to see from early grade…
Total Ryu Martial arts, Fort Collin CO I’ve been asked this question regularly for the past ten years or so—at least since the popularity of MMA and the perceived dominance of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioners in that type of competition. Usually, the explanation of what Jiu Jitsu is and is not takes longer than…
Is it Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, judo, sambo, submission wrestling—or something entirely different? I think the answer to this question may surprise you. Why? Because most consider real jiu jitsu to be Brazilian Jiu Jitsu? It’s not that at all, and I’m not trying to downgrade the effectiveness of a skilled practitioner in any of the above arts. What…