Image via Wikipedia Possibly the most famous Japanese fighting woman, Tomoe Gozen (toe.moe.e go.zen) has captured the imagination of the Japanese for several centuries. Her name is also starting to quite recognized in the US, largely thanks to a series of novels by Jessica Amanda Salmonson called the The Tomoe Gozen Saga. Who was Tomoe [...]
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[This week I'm featuring a guest post by Alexia Kruse discussing the benefits of MMA as an exercise for women. Alexia is writing on behalf of MMA Industries] (Photo courtesy of: http://www.flickr.com/photos/superwebdeveloper/ / CC BY 2.0) MMA Workouts are not Just for Men By Alexia Krause Mixed martial arts appears to be a male dominated [...]
Woman who posed as man to become judo champ finally gets gold – 50 years after being stripped of it Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/08/22/2009-08-22_judo_medals_a_kick_ymca_finally_does_right_by_first_female_champ_stripped_of_gol.html#ixzz0PmfdmXMs So here’s another female warrior in the long tradition of Mu-Lan and Joan of Arc — a woman dressed as a man to fight. The article specifically states that there were no [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Made famous by the Disney movie Mulan, Hua Mulan is the hero of a chinese ballad called The Song of Mulan, dating from around 5 C.E. (A.D.). The ballad [English translation] opens with Mulan weaving as she worries about her father who’s been called to military duty by the Khan. He is [...]
According to the legend, Wing Chun began in the Qing Dynasty, a time when the Chinese Han majority had been conquered and ruled by Manchurian nobility from the north. The harsh rule of the Han by the Manchurians is historical fact — I’m not a scholar of Chinese history, so the true extent of how [...]
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