Nondual Awareness, Body Boundary Perception, and Creative Attitudes in Japanese University Students Through a Brief Paired Martial Arts Exercise: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesMind–body practices such as meditation, yoga, and martial arts have been suggested to enhance flexible self-experience and psychological well-being. However, few studies have examined short-term effects of contemplative bodywork rooted in traditional ...
Arisa Yokosu +2 more
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The Future of Historical European Martial Arts Studies
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2016 The two panels of the conference were concluded by a round-table aiming at discussing the future of HEMA studies, by crossing the views of the speakers on three levels: personal involvement, major contribution needed for the field, strategies to make it ...
Daniel Jaquet
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Martial arts, combat sports, and mental health in adults: A systematic review.
Psychology of Sport And Exercise, 2023 Martial arts (MA) and combat sports (CS) are physical activities that may be associated with health-related outcomes. The aim of this systematic review was to synthesize and evaluate the available evidence on the relationship between MA and CS training ...
Simone Ciaccioni +7 more
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Review of Reinventing martial arts in the 21st Century, by George Jennings
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2023 In Reinventing martial arts in the 21st Century (published by Peter Lang, 2023), George Jennings proposes a hybrid online/offline multi-situated ethnography to account for the circumstances of traditional martial arts nowadays.
Raúl Sánchez García
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Mixed Martial Arts As a Way of Life: Going Beyond The Black Belt And Engaging in Life-Long Learning
Martial Arts Studies, 2023 In this qualitative study, we explored the experiences of 10 adults who trained in mixed martial arts (MMA) to understand the meaning they ascribed to attaining the black belt and their martial arts journal overall. Using a conventional content analysis,
Shayna A. Rusticus, Amanda R. Dumoulin
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Bruce Lee and the Perfection of Martial Arts (Studies): An Exercise in Alterdisciplinarity
Martial Arts Studies, 2019 This essay builds from an analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of Bruce Lee’s jeet kune do to an analysis of the current state of academic scholarship generally and martial arts studies scholarship specifically.
Kyle Barrowman
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Sports, 2022 This review aimed to analyze the findings in the literature related to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) through an exploratory systematic review and to present the state of the art from a multifactorial perspective.
J. C. Bueno +12 more
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Dialogue. Conquest of reality: Response to Paul Bowman's 'Instituting reality in Martial Arts practice' [PDF]
, 2014 In this Dialogue, Kyle Barrowman responds to Paul Bowman’s article ‘Instituting Reality in Martial Arts Practice' and poses questions pertinent to future development of martial arts ...
Barrowman, Kyle
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Show, don't tell: Making martial arts studies matter [PDF]
, 2018 How can we make martial arts studies matter? Returning to the issues of triviality and legitimation raised in the Spring 2017 editorial, in this essay we explore various strategies for conveying the intellectual importance of our work to a ...
Bowman, Paul, Judkins, Benjamin N.
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Contemporary Chinese martial arts and the manipulation of cultural positioning
Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, 2022 Traditional Chinese martial arts have a long history. In terms of cultural positioning, traditional martial arts have two main functions, namely, to promote patriotism and to provide opportunities for commercial exploitation.
Zheng Lin, Wen-hsuan Tsai
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