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Nostalgic collection of martial art courses and ads from comic books

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Culture

 on the 29th of June, 2007 | permalink
In this great gallery you can catch up with our childhood fantasies. Ads promising everything from joining the black Ninja society to learning the secret devastating fatal techniques of the Dim Mak expert are offered at a price starting from 99 cents.

It's a pity we lost so many years training, when we could have paid the money and get over with it.

Well...
In the words of one disappointed student: "what? What do you mean 12 years for a black belt? don't you have something faster?"
There you go, just 99 cent plus delivery.
link to Dan Kelly's site
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Tel Aviv night run - meeting place

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 on the 27th of June, 2007 | permalink


We meet in Shderot Ben Gurion at 20:00 near the street lamp statue.
The orange rectangle is the Municipality building of Tel Aviv.
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Beduins, dowsing and martial arts

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 on the 24th of June, 2007 | permalink
Gabi F. writes in the AKBAN blog about dowsing, old friends from the Sinai Desert and the subtle harmony that can sometimes be captured and remembered between martial friends.
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Five days to Tel Aviv night run

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 on the 24th of June, 2007 | permalink
Akbanauts, less then a week to the night run. We meet to organize ranks at 20:00 south of Gan Ha'air.This is a backpack run so don't forget to bring yours.
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Toward a better description of martial arts

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 on the 22nd of June, 2007 | permalink
Due to the fact that some articles about martial art describe the art inadequately we began a move to standardize the AKBAN-wiki articles describing martial arts.
Maybe this way we will be able to write an article about Ninjutsu. Nobody yet payed attention to the fact that in our huge martial arts and Ninjutsu website we still don't have an article describing what Ninjutsu is anywhere .
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Gracie fails drug test after fight with Sakuraba

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Bjj

 on the 21st of June, 2007 | permalink
After his recent fight with K. Sakuraba,

video 1 of the fight,
video 2 of the fight,
video 3 of the fight,
Royce Gracie failed his California State Athletic Commission drug test.
Gracie was tested positive for Nandrolone, an anabolic steroid. Gracie said he will appeal, but meanwhile he has been suspended from June the 2nd.

This heightens the question of whether there is a fair chance for a MMA to compete successfully in a field that is plagued with competitors using illegal substances to boost performance.
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Your martial arts web site is back online, sigh...

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Billionsofblueblisteringbarnacles

 on the 19th of June, 2007 | permalink
These were more then 12 nerve recking hours...

Due to huge increase in user traffic on our martial arts encyclopedia and because of the big data bases demands that were tasking our previous server we had to move your martial arts site.

We now host this huge web site on a separate server.
The good news are that it was worth it, every page loads faster, especially the AKBAN-wiki but also more esoteric issues like esoteric ninja hats.

Sorry, friends, we didn't think it would be that complicated.

Oh, almost forgot, thanks to Erik R. who from far far away found the DNS problem that was the root cause and corrected it.

Thanks to all of you who sent mails regarding this problem.
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Triangle choke drill and tutorial from Beit Hakerem Jerusalem dojo

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Inside dojo

 on the 18th of June, 2007 | permalink
In Beit Hakerem Dojo students practiced ground techniques. We uploaded a tutorial of a triangle choke drill to your martial arts encyclopedia.

The triangle choke is one of the most effective chokes done on the ground.
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Adding comments is enabled on the martial arts website

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Web site

 on the 17th of June, 2007 | permalink
You are now invited to add comments to the news in this page. Since the AKBAN news deal with everything from Mixed martial arts to ancient fighting systems we hope that you will.

Just click the "add comment" below, write your name (or invent one if you are a hopeless coward) and presto! some obscure moderator will approve it in a jiffy.

thanks
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New search engine in your martial arts website

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Web site

 on the 16th of June, 2007 | permalink
Keith H. with a little help from some veterans, Managed to write search algorithms that would search 5 databases in two languages.

Not only did he have to deal with thousands of images from AKBAN's martial art events, there was also the problem of two blogs, articles and, to top it all, tens of thousands of pages, techniques, videos and tutorials in the AKBAN-wiki.
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Professionalism in martial arts

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Blog

 on the 15th of June, 2007 | permalink
Zvika L. writes in the AKBAN blog about the high price that professionals in any field, martial arts included, pay.
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Tel Aviv night run

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 on the 11th of June, 2007 | permalink
The Nike night run will take place in Tel Aviv at Thursday, June the 28th, 20:45.
AKBAN veterans that do not have a scheduled dojo session at that evening are invited to run with us. It's a 10 Km run, but a 5 Km is also optional.
Running for beginners, from the AKBAN fitness program.
The AKBAN fitness program.
The Nike Tel Aviv night run, A Hebrew link.
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Wabi Sabi

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 on the 7th of June, 2007 | permalink
An new article from the ancient AKBAN newspaper.
Yossi S. writes about the Japanese aesthetics in martial arts. Wabi Sabi.
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Today the AKBAN-wiki passed the 1000 techniques and articles

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 on the 7th of June, 2007 | permalink
We just gave ourselves a big Mazal tov. Our fantastic project - documenting martial arts in a visual and logical system - has passed the 1000 techniques and articles and is going strong.
On the same note, we continue with all our endeavors. Keith H. from Tel-Aviv dojo upgraded our semantic wiki software, now we can ask more meaningful questions about techniques.
Ariel F. a veteran from Tel Aviv dojo, continues with Dani Y.'s work of writing text and tutorials to the videos.
All this in accordance with the 8th article, section 4, in the AKBAN's ethical code.
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Seitei gata, the standard ZNKR sword kata in video on the AKBAN-wiki

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 on the 5th of June, 2007 | permalink
with the expertise, accuracy and calm of sensei Yossi Lurie we now have in our martial arts database , in video, all the Seitei Gata, the sword drawing modern kata.
1. Mae 前
2. Ushiro 後ろ
3. Ukenagashi 受け流し
4. Tsuka-ate 柄当て
5. Kesagiri 袈裟切り
6. Morote-tsuki 諸手突き
7. Sanpō-giri 三方切り
8. Ganmen-ate 顔面当て
9. Soete-zuki 添え手突き
10. Shihō-giri 四方切り
11. Sō-giri 総切り
12. Nukiuchi 抜き打ち


You can hear the whistling of the sword in all the Iaido kata.
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Ninjutsu tutorial from Rehovot Dojo

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 on the 3rd of June, 2007 | permalink
In the Rehovot Dojo students practiced on a variety of combat techniques.
Two of these tutorials, in video are here:
1. Inside elbow punch 2. Gan seki otoshi.
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An arm drag from pummeling tutorial

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 on the 2nd of June, 2007 | permalink
A short clip in the AKBAN-wiki shows some points in transition from pummeling drill to arm drag and taking the opponents back.
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Picture gallery of 12 hours training session

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 on the 2nd of June, 2007 | permalink
Rehovot Dojo picture gallery was uploaded today, even though it took place more then a month ago, sometimes we are slow...
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Training moves in Ninjutsu dojos

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 on the 1st of June, 2007 | permalink
Dojo Beit Hakerem in Jerusalem practiced Sakanagare no kata.
The german colony dojo in Jerusalem practiced punches.
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The combat savvy and experienced community of AKBAN has opened up its videos and knowledge for all martial arts styles, Ninjutsu and Budo Taijutsu included.

Martial arts techniques, hundreds of throws, kicks and punches plus weapon kata are arranged in an easy order, for you to learn and be a better fighter.

Effective and accurate training in martial arts is our goal. Even though we think it is not recommended to learn online exclusively, our immense, free, AKBAN-wiki can add to your practice and give better, more effective skills in self defense and martial arts.

Training in Ninjutsu and other martial arts styles for many years has taught us this secret Ninja lore, we know: "There is no substitute for a qualified teacher and a Dojo." And we know this too: "Only by continually learning, practicing and exchanging we can be better human beings, better warriors."

Use this as a reference to gauge your own performance, or simply take a look at the foundations of a style different from your own.

Care to join and tour with us? You are most welcomed, our friend in martial arts.







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