Boxer vs Martial Artist

There are many hand movements which can be termed as a punch, but are they a real punch? Well, a slap can be also be categorised as a punch since it is thrown from our body part. Any reflexes thrown by the hands can be regarded as a punch.

People are always confused to train themselves in regards to throw a devastating punch, so they try out new things to increase their striking powers by their hands. Different people opt different ways to increase and unleash their punching calibre. Many punching styles were well choreographed and shown in number of Chinese movies.

But, the only punching style with its unique ability and stands to its peak is the way how a boxer boxes. Many martial artists have adopted western boxing to increase their hand techniques and to improve their footwork. But does boxing is the real bread and butter when it comes for hand techniques?

Many experts rely on western boxing due to many reasons, and one such reason is, it subsides the unnecessary move when thrown during the delivery. Whereas, a martial artist would throw the punch from his waist which makes the punch to cover more distance, thus leaving it telegraphed and makes it slow.

Moreover, a boxer’s punch is straight without any fancy moves, the “straight lead” is thrown without even bringing the punch back. Whereas in karate, the “straight lead” is pulled back to the waist to unleash enough power from where it’s transferred, thus making it slow and fully exposed for the target to block it.

A perfect punch should be able to hit its target in a shorter span without getting it blocked. It is because of this a boxer with ease profits with his punches making good use of his footwork. A punch should not only be delivered by the twist in hip but also should be able to cover enough room by proper footwork.

A punch when thrown by a martial artist has enough power because the hand is thrown from the waist and he makes good use of his waist. But the major drawback of a martial artist punch is that he is ill-literate while making good use off his foot.

If a martial art punch is filled with power then a boxing punch is wrapped with speed and non-telegraphic attributes. Sometimes many fighters regard a “swing” as a perfect punch, but it is denoted as a punch “without action”.

In a “swing” the punch is thrown in a circular path and makes no use of waist and feet. Moreover, the “swing” is telegraphed thus making it easy to be blocked while in action, but what about a “hook”?

A “hook” shares a similar action with a “swing” but it is far more devastating than the latter. A “hook” is thrown by making good use of the footwork which means the puncher is not stiff during the delivery.

It was because of the flaws of martial arts punch, Bruce Lee was forced to adapt western boxing so that he could develop his hand techniques and improve his foot skills. Today, many martial artists bend to western boxing to increase their hand techniques and a good foot manoeuvre.

It has been said that everything in this universe as its pros and cons. If you think a boxer’s punching style is perfect, then think again? A boxer might have the right techniques with his footwork and a good manoeuvre with his hand skill but he holds a major set-back. The biggest flaw with a boxer is he is simply left alone when it comes in making a good use of his waist.

Thus, a boxer nevertheless is quick, with greasy fast moves, but he lacks power while delivering his punch. Similarly, a martial artist is able to generate enough power by making good use of his waist, but he is stagnated when it comes in quick moves and great footwork.

It is therefore we should make use of these a boxer’s and a martial artist punch, to get enough power, speed, accuracy and good foot skills, this is known as “Jeet Kune Do, The Way of the Intercepting Fist”

Remember, a “hook” can become a “straight lead” but a “straight lead” should not circulate like a “hook” or a “swing”.

Martial Arts

People for years tried out various styles to increase their strength, accuracy, speed and power. It is for this reason they tried out for something new, and because of this, different martial artist profited by bringing out their new moves and magnificent styles in order to get good amount of trafficking.

After the demise of the legendry martial artist Bruce Lee people started to think of different martial arts and their techniques which really made impressive acts in people’s mind. At the genesis most of the people opted for Karate and many names originated in this field, one such name was Chuck Norris.

 

A professional and won many martial arts tournament until became a famous superstar after the release of “The Way of the Dragon”. It was by the 60s when Bruce bought with him a unique style known as Kung Fu which made it popular in United States.

By now people started to acknowledge various styles and started to switch on according to their convenience. But we are absolutely wrong and it’s our myth that, this form of martial arts is better than that.

 

Martial Arts is just like the oak tree standing tall and erect, whereas the various branches are the different forms of martial arts, modified and re-refined by different martial artist. Now, these branches are further sub-divided into twigs given different names of the group.

Karate is a form of martial art but it is not a martial art, it is sub-divided such as Shoto-Ryu, Buro-Ryu, Shotokan, Burokan, Juju-Ryu, Jujukan. Similarly, Kung Fu was divided as Wing Chun, Wu-Shu not only this two martial arts where mixed to get a new form such as Kick-Boxing.

 

A combination of western boxing and karate were mingled to give new face which was termed as Kick-Boxing. This form of martial arts is widely popularised in United States, and even schools are promoting the sport at a wider range. Just like, Kick-boxing, Savate and Krav Maga are more popular in Soviet Union and Israel.

 

But there are certain alien sports that were invited by martial arts. The sport that is preferred by every martial artist is the “Western Boxing”. Bruce Lee who was a Wing Chun artist highly acknowledged the sport and gave it great preference to it. He was highly impressed by the footwork, the way a boxer trained and moreover the punching style. It was short, had speed and reduced unnecessary distance compared to any other punching style.

 

On the side, ju-jitsu and the Indian wrestling shared similar techniques when compared to each other. But as the world is changing the sports and their methods are modified and changed by different martial artist.

 

One such modification is done and is termed as “Mixed Martial Arts” or MMA. It is where; different forms of martial arts are bought in the same arena and are made to fight with each other. With the clash of different styles we are made to guess that which form of martial arts stands alone.

But at the end of the day we shouldn’t forget that there is only martial art and different forms are generated by different martial artist. So, if you can make your style you can place it, but do not call it “Martial Arts”.

Bruce Lee The Invincible Target

Bruce was crazy and a manic to learn and know more about martial arts. He was a one step ahead from his rivalries of his time and used to dedicate his self more in improvements and tactics. It’s been said that during Bruce’s learning periods he used to spread false bulletin about the absent of his master to his class mates, so that he could enjoy full privacy while learning the art.

Bruce was adamant and was a sturdy person during his juvenile stage. He used to bully his friends and usually took up a scuffle on the road side. At the age of 13 he was introduced to Yip Man a notable Wing Chun martial artist. During the 40s Hong Kong was mostly noted as an illicit place where black market and thugs thrived the nation. It was because of this Bruce wanted to learn Kung Fu so that he could get out of the problems that he used to confront them on daily bases.

Bruce was excellent and picked up every lesson off his master with ease; he threw his self to learn new techniques, and expanded his knowledge during different situations. By the age of 18 Bruce transferred his knowledge to the extreme limits. By now he started to manufacture his own way of fighting, but as the improvements worked for him so did he gained confidents and will-fully had street brawls.

The changes in Bruce, made his father to worry a lot for his son. So, it was a fine day when Bruce’s father encouraged him to sail to Seattle where he could pursue his higher education and could lead a normal life.

But as habits and nature die hard, though Bruce migrated to United States he was still the same. By now he was working in a family restaurant and on the other side he was enthusiastic to show his feats and spread his knowledge to the world. Bruce used to attend martial arts tournaments and gave his life’s best demo by showing the world the strength of his 1 inch punch.

The demonstration was performed in Long Beach International Karate Championships in 1964; Bruce also performed the two finger push up which was an amazing art for the Americans to witness. America flooded in the sport of baseball and boxing where images of great boxers such as Jack Johnson, Jack Dumsey, Joe Lewis, Rocky Marciano and Casius Clay, reigned the American’s hearts. But no-one ever imagined that an Asian man will soon become the notable among the best.

By now the Americans started to whisper about the incredible strength and the new art form, that Bruce had bought it from Asia. Some were enthusiastic to know about it while others wanted to learn about the sport. People from all over the place started to swell at Bruce’s courtyard and he was ready to build his class and status.

With the raising name and recognition on the ground of Uncle Sam, Bruce was already a well recognised celeb in the field of martial arts. But it is said “with the rise of the ladder, there is always someone to chop the wood”. Bruce started to get death threats and he was challenged by his own client, to stop teaching martial arts to the outside world.

But as he was thin steel that is hard to break, Bruce was determined and adamant to teach the sport. The group challenged Bruce for a fight with their finest fighter and kept a clause, if Bruce was able to defeat this guy then he would be let free. But if he fails then he needs to stop teaching to the outside world and should leave to his hometown.

Bruce was up and he accepted the challenge, he along with his student entered the auditorium where the fight was supposed to be held. The fight began with a bow and lasted for 10 minutes, the fighter showed no match in front of Bruce’s whiplash. At last Bruce knocked him down and pulling his clinched fist at the fighter’s face he cried loud “do you give up”, the opponent with bleeding face told “Matte" in Chinese means "uncle".

But this was not the end for Bruce, he was succumbed to the trauma, though he won the fight but he didn’t enjoy it. This was from here where he needed a change; Bruce thought that he was not ready for any fight and he needed to develop his skills. It was from here when Bruce started to take up for western boxing, he liked the hand techniques a lot.

Bruce started to refer some of the old footage of the great boxers, he started to learn western boxing, and improved his footwork. He moved as a boxer and punched like a whip, it was not over he introduced many exercise that developed his methods and improved his techniques.

Bruce slowly started to develop his skills and introduced his unique style of fight, which he termed it as “Jeet Kune Do, The Way of the Intercepting Fist”. When Bruce started to sprout out with this technique, people considered it much of the boxing tricks with addition of leg techniques. But this art was much more than western boxing.

It is said that Bruce was able to defeat his opponent in just 10 seconds with his unique technique that he introduced and named it as “Jeet Kune do”.

Face off of the Two Big Cats

Although, lions and tigers are the strongest, powerful and the most courageous big cats, built to take down the biggest prey with one sweep or bite force, but they are different in many ways.

Lions and tigers have the same bone and body structure and are built with muscles which allow them to hold their prey strongly without even loosing them. But this is not the reason that both the big cats differ from each other. It’s rarest of rear case when these cats confront each other in wild; this is because the lions rule most of the Africans jungle whereas the tigers are limited to Russia and India.

Very few dossiers show that the big cats truly fought when it came to defend their territory and their family. Scientific research show that the lions and tigers fought during the Roman era, and most of the cases the tigers won the war and lions breathe to dead.

Tigers are stronger and smarter than the lions and the reason behind this is they hunt alone which means they have to rely on their instincts. This helped them to develop their mind and allowed them to improve their smartness at peak.

Whereas the lions hunt in groups, so they are depended on each other allowing them to slow down both mentally and physically. Many time it as been seen that the tigers often leave the war zone without much to fight, that doesn’t mean that the tigers are frightened to fight but they avoid fight in fear of being injured, which will slow them down during a hunt.

Tigers are often weighed around 500lbs whereas lions are weigh not more than 150 kg. It as been said that a tiger that was found in the wild weighed nearly 300kg, but in a fight weight is not only the factor for a tiger’s win, but there are other reasons which helps the tigers to win against the lions.

The tigers fight on their forequarters using their two legs as a tool, they fight like a western boxer with great moves and tactics using better of their foot moves. The lions fight using one of their legs giving them greater disadvantage in a battle. This is where the lions loose to death when a fight is played against their opponent.

Moreover an episode known as the “Animal Face Off” featured in the Discovery Channel showed that the lion survived and won the fight against the tiger due to its mane. But in wild this is not the case, when there is a fight between the big cats, they would rather go for the head or back and not for the throat.

And this is where the weight plays an important role; the tigers are much heavier than the lions which allow them to climb on their opponent easily sending a tremendous bite force to their assailant. Tigers normally are calm creatures and would avoid a scuffle but on the other hand lions are aggressive in nature and will never back down without a fight.

This is why people opt for a lion rather than a tiger, because they have an instinct to fight till death. The Romans loved the mane owner because they were aggressive and never showed signs of timid ness.

But at the end of day the true warrior with great tactics wins the fight and the tiger owns the war zone with supremacy and the knack to fight, when it comes to challenging its antagonist.

Futuristic Phone

“Black Dracula” can still be activated without using “yes” SIM card, which is why it is known as Satellite Guided Mobile Phone. The Black Dracula operates in a casual way which has normal features such as video conferencing, video and audio player, messages that can be send through WAP, MMS, SMS, Bluetooth and deactivate any type of computer within a 100 meters of range.

The mobile phone has three cameras, two on its side and one to its back as usual. It has night vision and infrared binoculars and can take snap shots even in pitch dark, using night vision sensors. Moreover, the mobile phone when plugged to hear-jack can transmit ultrasound and sonar sounds which means not only the pachyderms and dogs can hear it, but also makes audible to the human ears.

The “Black Dracula as another beneficial factor, it can be activated and deactivated by hearing the sound of its owner. The owner needs to dial his selected number from any other phone, once the “Black Dracula” identifies its owner’s voice it immediately gets into position.

One of the greatest features of the “Satellite Guided Mobile Phone” is that it can act as an explosive device. On hearing its master’s voice, the chlorine and tetra hydrochloride stars to melt when the brass sheet receives a code from the user and explodes in no second.

Man vs. Animal

Man evolved from apes and apes were animals, struggling to fit according to their surroundings. This is why we share a similarity with the beast, these similarities can be seen during a territorial fight, during a fight to unite with the opposite sex, protecting ones family and surviving to tell the tale. We have been noticed and have been associated with animals, just because there are certain genes which we carry from them. It is because of this we can see the above mentioned characteristics within us. Though we have evolved and matured ourselves better than the animals, but still some of the habits and characteristics can be seen within us. The only difference is that we can understand the situation and prepare our self to take it down any time. So, whether we ignore the fact, but it is true that we are built by those genes that inherit the beast of the wild.

Navy SEALs

The elite special operations force of the US Navy, known for there highly camouflage style and ability to operate at all levels Sea, Air and Land. These Naval Amphibious units are able to work in ocean and fresh water battlefields. This ability of Naval SEALs separates them from most military units in the world.

It’s interesting to learn the birth of these amphibious units that sprouted to an Excellency and has been the first line of defense for United States. The Navy Seals first came to existence during the World War II when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. This lead Uncle Sam to enter the war, the US troops was forced to invade Japanese territory by sea, often facing landmines and unseen enemies.

As a counter-measure, the US Navy began creating teams specially trained to go other hazards and return intelligence on enemy locations. These teams were called Naval Combat Demolition Units. During the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the US Navy created Navy SEALs based on the training of Naval Combat Demolition Units.

The headquarters of Naval Amphibious Base is in Virginia Beach, and Virginia, is the home to SEAL Teams 2, 4, 8, and 10, whereas the home for 1, 3, 5, and 7 SEAL is in Coronado, California. On the other hand the Seal Delivery Vehicle (SDV) unit is in Pearl Harbor.

The Navy Seals stay alert 365 days 24*7 and are deployed to various war zones. They are given those missions that require detailed planning and precise execution. The force is trained to perform missions in direct action, counter-terrorism, unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, hostage situation, special reconnaissance, including surveillance and gathering crucial information.

Navy seals began its career during the Vietnam War and after an unaccepted success they were deployed to Grenada and successfully overcame Operation Urgent Fury. The operations that were handled by these amphibious forces were “Operation Prime Chance” in Persia Gulf, “Operation Just Cause” in Panama, Afghanistan, Post-9/11 operations and Iraq War.

This is the same amphibious forces that were lead to trace and hunt down the most wanted fugitive of the planet, Osama Bin Laden. According to unconfirmed reports, SEAL Team SIX (ST-6) was involved in the operation that killed the Al-Qaeda chief. The team apparently carried out a number of trail runs before the raid and at last killed him in Abbottabad which was in military base of Pakistan.

Regarded as being among the most highly skilled and trained amphibious units in the world. They are the US Navy’s principal special operations force, ready to take down any mission with one strike and can operate even in deepest ocean.