The relationship between dance and martial arts goes back to the intersection of animal based folk dancing and martial forms (kata), both were a vibrant part of many early cultures and used physical based movements to transmit and record information.

Some dances are specifically martial in nature, while others conceal their powerful fighting arts by hiding them in plain sight. You just have to know what you’re looking for. The following list is hardly comprehensive but I present it to give you an idea of the variety and scope of martial dance.

One of the most underused and underestimated forms of cross training for modern martial artists to improve their skills is that of formal dance, but this historically has not always been the case.

The humble bowl and teacup (essentially the same thing for our purposes) have been around for thousands of years making eating and drinking

Learn how to read your weapon, know your tools aspects – every one of them has some form of...

It’s now been twenty years to the day that the Blue Lotus Tai Chi Club was formed (prior teaching aside) by one of life’s affable eccentrics

All traditional martial arts without fail have a strong spiritual dimension to their training. Which to some can seem a little strange, pair

Tai Chi is about feeling rather than thinking. It is possible to collect a lot of intellectual knowledge about Tai Chi without really penetr

Tai Chi is an art of balance, physical, mental and emotional balance. True mastery of any martial system can only result after years of unco

Martial arts are not purely about fighting skills, they also focus on inner development, touching that part of us that seeks higher things (

Tai Chi Chuan was developed out of Wudang fighting styles whose most significant difference from Shaolin fighting styles is their focus on i

Tai Chi Chuan should be a totally unassumed doing. You cannot practice Tai Chi Chuan with the rational mind...

“Come to the edge, he said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them. They flew.” Christopher Logue...

A little Tai Chi ephemera for you. There are very few fictional books which include Tai Chi Chuan within their plot. However back in 1979 a

“It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary.”

‘ The Beaver's best course, was no doubt, to procure A second hand dagger–proof coat _ _ So the Baker advised it_ _ and next, to insure...

Newton Class 3rd May '22 Oh what a tangled web we weave Well done all, it looks like you've got Fist Under Elbow (Zhou Di Kan Chui)...

Tai Chi is many things - a martial art, a mystical art, a magical art and a holistic art, and you need to embrace all these different aspe

"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." Winston Churchill

Peng 'To ward off slanting upward' is essentially an inflated, rising outward, expanding energy. It's the first energy of the Ba Fa,...