REPORT 1 – SOFT AND HARD MARTIAL ARTS by Katherine White Hapkido and Bajiquan WHAT IS A MARTIAL ART? Before any Martial Art, hard or soft, can be looked at, it needs to be understood what is meant by these terms. There is no one, definite, definition of what is...
The main element to my research project, as part of my 2nd dan grading, is to compare and contrast 5 “hard” and 5 “soft” styles of martial arts – looking at their key underlying principles and methods of power generation and also looking at how these different styles...