Translating Chinese Martial Arts for a Global Audience: A Multimodal Perspective

Song, Ge

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“…Emerging categories such as "martial activities" (Martínková and Parry, 2016) and "martialité" (martiality in English) (De Grave, 2019), on the other hand, show the capacity to bridge the study of martial arts with the study of an array of other physical and non-physical practices oriented to the disciplined cultivation of the practitioner's mind, body and soul, and because of this, are useful in accounting for how health is theorized, transmitted, and cultivated in specific martial arts and martial activities. This paper, therefore, together with those studies that have already begun to competently inquiry into the relationships between martial activities and health in contemporary societies (e.g., Alter, 2004;Leledaki, 2005, 2010;Burke et al, 2007;Newcombe, 2007Newcombe, , 2019Croom, 2014;Fong, 2014;Jain, 2014Jain, , 2020Jennings, , 2017Leledaki, 2014;Cynarski and Sieber, 2015;Markula and Chikinda, 2017;Smith and Atencio, 2017;Cynarski, 2018Cynarski, , 2019b, attempts to be a contribution in this direction. More specifically, I contribute to the literature with an ethnographic and discursive exploration of Odaka Yoga, an innovative style of postural yoga blended with martial arts elements, which emphasizes the importance of practitioners' health and processes of self-transformation as pivotal to the school's ethos.…”

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Martial Arts, Health, and Society

2023

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“…TC, a soft-style Chinese martial art, has been reported to improve lower limb joint proprioception, muscle strength, and postural control among older adults [ 4 , 5 ]. However, the traditional forms of TC may be too tedious and complicated to master because they involve a long series of slow, continuous, and predetermined movements [ 6 , 7 ]. Practitioners may thus drop out from TC programs or be demotivated to continue their training.…”

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Effects of Ving Tsun sticking-hand training on lower limb sensorimotor performance among community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults: a randomized controlled trial

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Yam

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Background To explore the effects of Ving Tsun (VT) sticking-hand training on knee joint proprioception and leg muscular performance among community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults. Methods Thirty-three middle-aged and older adults were randomly assigned to either the VT or control group. The VT group received sticking-hand training twice/week for 3 months. Data were collected before and after the intervention period. The primary outcome was knee joint repositioning error, which was measured using knee joint active repositioning tests. The secondary outcomes included the maximum muscle strength and time to maximum muscle strength of the major leg muscles. Results No significant group, time, or group-by-time interaction effects were found for the knee joint repositioning error (p > 0.05). The maximum muscle strength of the knee flexors increased over time in the VT group only (p = 0.038). In addition, the time to maximum muscle strength in the hip extensors and flexors increased over time in both groups (p < 0.05). For the knee extensors and flexors, the time to maximum muscle strength increased in the control (p = 0.027) and VT (p = 0.019) groups, respectively, over time. Conclusions VT sticking-hand training could improve the maximum muscle strength of the knee flexors but could not attenuate the age-related deterioration in leg muscle contraction speed nor improve knee joint proprioception among community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03318289. Registered on 23 October 2017.

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Translating Chinese Martial Arts for a Global Audience: A Multimodal Perspective

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Martial Arts, Health, and Society

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Effects of Ving Tsun sticking-hand training on lower limb sensorimotor performance among community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults: a randomized controlled trial

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