#martial arts florida

[themartialartsleader]

Why Martial Arts Classes for Adults Are Essential

Martial arts isn’t just for kids or competitive athletes—it's a practice that can benefit adults of all ages and fitness levels. Whether you're looking to boost your physical health, improve mental clarity, or learn self-defense, martial arts classes for adults offer a unique and transformative experience. At The Martial Arts Leader in Florida, we help individuals unlock their full potential through expert training programs designed specifically for adults.

[yokaahe]

Did you know that the Seminole used to have their own Martial Arts style when they were constantly attacked by the U.S. forces? The demonstration team and I are reverse engineering techniques based on old journal entries, our individual training, and good ol fashioned improvising on the spot bcos that bayonet is real metal that's nearly pierced me a few times already.

[absolutebl]

Hello Phi ! Do you know why in Thai BL, male characters can be swimmers and all kind of ballers but we have very few martial artists and in particular Muay Thai boxers ? No boxing clubs love stories ? There is a fight in Not me and The Eclipse played around with Judo a bit but I never seen a Thai show do what Where your eyes linger did with Jujitsu. Much love.

Second Chance has a Muay Thai story arc and I think there is at least one other. Ah yes, erm... what was that BounPrem vehicle called... Even Sun!

Judo/JJ shows up in Blue of Winter and Tasty Florida as well.

Honestly, I don't know why not more. Maybe it's not considered sexy? There actually are comparatively few sports romances for the gay romance genre which frankly LOVES these, usually.

[cardonasacademydelray]

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[aikidoofgainesville]

Martial Arts Training 

Martial arts training is a holistic practice that involves the development of physical, mental, and spiritual aspects. It integrates demanding physical techniques with mental focus and self-awareness. By practicing various martial forms, individuals can improve their strength, agility, and self-defense skills.

[aikidoofgainesville1]

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[madamlaydebug]

HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW THIS ABOUT BROTHER WESLEY?!

Snipes formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991 and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television.

AMEN RA PRODUCTIONS PRODUCED ALL OF THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL (AND LUCRATIVE) BLADE MOVIES

Snipes has been training in martial arts since age 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido.

In the late 1990s, Snipes and his brother started a security firm called the Royal Guard of Amen-Ra, dedicated to providing VIPs with bodyguards trained in law enforcement and martial arts. In 1996, the first film produced by Amen Ra productions was A Great And Mighty Walk – Dr. John Henrik Clarke, in which Snipes narrated.

In 2000, the business was investigated for alleged ties to the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. It emerged that Snipes had spotted 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land with the intention to buy and use for his business academy, which were close to the compound in Putnam County, Georgia. Both Snipes' business and the groups used Egyptian motifs as their symbols. Ultimately, Snipes and his brother did not buy the land, instead establishing their company in Florida, Antigua, and Africa.

Snipes, who was raised a Christian, converted to Islam in 1978, but left Islam in 1988. During a 1991 interview, Snipes said "[Islam made] me more conscious of what African people have accomplished, of my self-worth, [and gave] me some self-dignity."

[hooked-on-elvis]

A lovely story of Elvis on set of "Paradise Hawaiian Style," by actress Irene Tsu.

Principal photography in Paradise, Hawaiian Style began in Hawaii on July 27, 1965 (with the working title of "Hawaiian Paradise") and finished on September 29, 1965 in Los Angeles.

"It was the very first day on set and I was so nervous. So I decided to go take a nap and if I was needed on set, they would call me. I went to my trailer and the air conditioner wasn’t working. I was just hysterical - really hysterical. I walked around the set when I discovered a big hut and thought there would be air conditioning inside.

All of a sudden, there was a hand stopping me. And I was told, 'That's Elvis' dressing room. You can't just go in. I’m going to have to ask if you're allowed.'

Security let me in and I ended up taking a nap on a couch in the cool area. Elvis was near me looking at me when I woke up. He was putting a cold compress on my face. He thought I must have passed out or something.

He was absolutely beautiful. I didn’t even know what to say because I was so shocked. And then he went, 'Don’t worry about it. I just want you to feel good. Are you hungry? Do you want something to eat? Are you thirsty?' I couldn’t even talk! I was overwhelmed by his presence. He smelled like baby powder and milk. And he kept insisting if I needed or wanted anything.

We became friends while working together. We were united by our admiration for martial arts and spiritual ideals."

Article: "Irene Tsu, Paradise Hawaiian Style co-star Remembers the King." Source: Fox News August 7, 2020. Credits for sharing this story: Elvis In The 70s Facebook group, article and pictures posted by fan Sarah Horsfield.

MY OPINION SECTION: If you remember the behind the scenes story on Elvis's personal life, he was miserable with the Hollywood contracts for a while... 1965/1966 weren't his best years emotionally. Elvis was feeling terrible with how his career was going at that time, musically and cinematographically. It's really cute to me how gracious and generous with his time and attention he was even when he was feeling terrible inside. Skeptical people would say "Oh she was a very attractive woman and he was just hitting on her." It could be, but do you really think he needed tactics to get girls? He was Elvis! Besides, there's reasons to believe he was just being genuinely worried about Irene. EP was a very caring man since always. That story reminded me of Elvis on August 11, 1956 in Jacksonville, Florida. There's pictures of him holding the hand of a fan who fainted after seeing him in person at the hotel he was staying in. If Elvis wasn't the huge music star he was - but still had the financial means to do so - I bet he would have been an excellent doctor or caregiver of any kind. That man had so much love to give!

[raccontidialiantis]

Gentilissima dottoressa Anna…

Quando al lavoro ricevo un'email che inizia così, mi viene sempre da sorridere. Sapessero quale perverso e irrefrenabile 'folletto del sesso' possiede totalmente la mia psiche! Lavoro da tre anni in un nuovo ufficio con due mie care colleghe: Lina, la più anziana, prossima alla pensione e Rossana, mia coetanea di circa trentacinque anni e che è anche mio Capo. Con Ros ormai siamo migliori amiche da diverso tempo e lei mi confida sempre tutto. Io a lei… be': 'quasi' tutto.

Rossana è, manco a dirlo, una rossa esplosiva. Alta e slanciata: una quarta di reggiseno. Una femmina florida e piena di curve mozzafiato. Sempre vestita in modo molto sensuale. È oggettivamente un gran bel pezzo di figliola e l'oggetto di cupidigia di chiunque abbia a che fare con lei: uomini e donne. La riempiono sempre di attenzioni, cortesie e caffè.

E invidie da parte delle donne che non possono averla o essere come lei. La corteggiano tutti, più o meno esplicitamente. Lei è la star del piano. Quanto a me invece, vesto sempre in modo classico, poco appariscente e, a parte i rapporti di lavoro, con me generalmente buongiorno e buonasera: nessuno osa andare mai troppo oltre. E così io posso essere libera di volare sotto i radar e farmi gli affari miei.

Certamente, arrivata a trentacinque anni, ho avuto anch’io le mie belle storielle: il mio primo fidanzato l’ho avuto a diciott'anni. Era gentile e piccolino, come me. È con lui che ho fatto l'amore la prima volta. C'è da dire che per mia parte sono magra, alta 1,60 e con una prima scarsa di reggiseno. Però ho un bel culetto alto, sodo e un visino d'angelo. Gambe nervose e perfette. Faccio regolare esercizio fisico in palestra e corro ogni domenica.

E comunque la donna più bella mai apparsa sulla terra - Jane Birkin - aveva il seno tra il piccolo e l'inesistente, proprio come il mio! Ho lasciato il mio primo amorino dopo un anno per un ragazzo più grande sia di età che fisicamente; incidentalmente ho scoperto che alla maggior altezza e robustezza fisica corrisponde in genere una… 'attrezzatura' maschile di calibro altrettanto superiore. E questa cosa mi ha mandata fuori di testa. Ho avuto molti altri uomini, li ho cercati sempre soltanto molto più grandi di me: sia di età che fisicamente. Mai comunque qualcosa che fosse duraturo o di emotivamente troppo impegnativo.

Mi piaceva troppo solo il fatto di farmi riempire e scopare da loro. Godevo dei loro grossi membri dentro il mio corpo: amavo sentirmi occupata e poi farcita dal loro seme. Adoravo quel contrasto sulla carta impossibile tra me e l’uomo alto e grande. Quindi progressivamente ho imparato a farmi elastica, sotto ai loro corpi, mentre mi sbattevano a destra e sinistra, spesso facendomi volare sul letto come un fuscello. Sebbene mi promettessero tutti mari e monti, non appena sentivo puzza di innamoramento, di legame o di matrimonio, tagliavo di netto. Soffrivano. Moltissimo; tornavano alla carica. A volte disperati. Io dicevo di no e basta.

Un anno fa Ros mi ha invitata di venerdì sera a una cena tra colleghi. E lì ho conosciuto finalmente Pietro, suo marito. Descrizione di questo capolavoro della natura: alto 1,95 per 120 kg. Un fascio di muscoli, istruttore di Mixed Martial Arts. In sostanza, un gigante forte e gentile. Molto sexy, ma spassosissimo e cortese. C'è da dire che quando il Folletto del Sesso mi si risveglia io non guardo in faccia nessuno. Dopo un rapido scambio di battute, senza farmi troppo notare dalla mia amica intima, gli ho dato il mio numero: “sai: in caso ti servisse, se magari non riesci a parlare con Ros o per qualsiasi altra cosa…” e glielo dicevo guardandolo fisso negli occhi. Lui era rosso di vergogna. Tenerissimo: me lo sarei scopato lì.

Durante la serata abbiamo anche ballato un po’ e io mi stringevo a lui in modo vergognoso. Da seduti, tra noi due: giù battute, frasi e via via discorsi sempre più seri, sino a uno sbottonarsi a riguardo di cose anche molto personali. La stessa sera, da casa mia gli ho chiesto io con un messaggio di vederci per un caffè e due chiacchiere in libertà. Così: solo perché mi stava simpatico. Sullo smartphone lui, dapprima un po’ esitante, ha infine accettato. Ci siamo visti all'indomani, sabato, in mattinata in un bar del centro e dopo nemmeno un'ora dal caffè eravamo a casa mia… a letto. L'ho conquistato letteralmente. Mi prendo chi voglio. Mi ha detto che ama moltissimo sua moglie, ma anche che lei purtroppo lo fa sempre venire fuori, che il suo culo se lo può scordare e la bocca neppure a pensarci. Al massimo quando lei è indisposta lo sega.

E’ rimasto stupito quando l’ho incitato a spaccarmi la fica senza troppi complimenti: un bestione del genere, che però ho accolto sino alla radice, senza fare neppure un urletto di dolore. Quando stava per venire me l’ha detto e sarebbe voluto uscire, perché era abituato così. Io invece l’ho trattenuto dentro di me incrociando le gambe sulla sua schiena. E tenendo le mie mani sulle sue chiappe. Gli ho anche detto di non preoccuparsi, perché prendo le mie precauzioni. Lui allora s’è indurito completamente all’idea e ha iniziato letteralmente a sfondarmi: sembrava un vero selvaggio! Mugolava, grugniva e mi diceva cose all’orecchio che mi facevano arrapare ancora di più. Mi chiamava puttanella, troia senza vergogna.

Al culmine, mi ha urlato infoiato: “sei una piccola cagna, mi stai facendo tradire mia moglie, la madre di mio figlio… voglio vedere proprio quando strillerai... e dai: strilla, maledetta puttana…” Ma per me queste erano solo parole di miele. Gli ridevo in faccia, godendo come una cagna, appunto. Dopo la nostra prima volta, la settimana successiva l’ho fatto entrare. Ero in vestaglia trasparente, nuda e mi sono messa subito sul letto: pancia sotto e a culo ben aperto, in posa inequivocabile. Lui mi ha chiesto: “ma sei sicura?” e io provocandolo gli ho detto: “ma... lo sai fare o ti devo fare un disegnino?” Per tutta risposta ha puntato il suo membro enorme contro la mia rosellina, che si è aperta magicamente e pian piano lo ha accolto completamente. Oggettivamente mi faceva un po' male, ma solo l’idea di avere un palo del genere dentro mi faceva venire!

Va detto che m’ero ben preparata, tenendo nell’ano tutta la settimana il mio fido plug di belle dimensioni. Ed eccoci qua, nel mezzo di questa storia segreta. Adoro essere il suo chiodo fisso sessuale, vedere la sua espressione sorpresa ogni volta che glielo prendo tutto in bocca senza fiatare e mi piace troppo essere la ragione delle corna della mia migliore amica, mio Capo e gran pezzo di gnocca, soprattutto se confrontata con me, donnetta slavata, insignificante e totalmente anonima. Amo i racconti che mi fa Ros di come secondo lei lui è innamoratissimo, di come lei lo tenga legato con la sua preziosa fica. Che non oserebbe mai tradirla, perché dove la trova un’altra gnocca come lei. Lo so: il mio Folletto del Sesso prima o poi mi porterà alla perdizione. Ma intanto nella mia vita, di un maschio come Pietro, timido gentiluomo ma selvaggio, enorme bestione nel sesso, non posso fare a meno.

RDA

[themartialartsleader]

Why Martial Arts Classes for Adults Are Essential

Martial arts isn’t just for kids or competitive athletes—it's a practice that can benefit adults of all ages and fitness levels. Whether you're looking to boost your physical health, improve mental clarity, or learn self-defense, martial arts classes for adults offer a unique and transformative experience. At The Martial Arts Leader in Florida, we help individuals unlock their full potential through expert training programs designed specifically for adults.

1. Improves Physical Fitness

Martial arts classes provide a full-body workout that helps build strength, flexibility, endurance, and balance. Unlike traditional gym routines, martial arts combine dynamic movements, cardiovascular conditioning, and muscle toning, all within a fun and engaging setting. Whether you're practicing karate for adult beginners or engaging in martial arts training for adults, you'll notice improved fitness within weeks.

Regular practice also promotes better posture and coordination, which are essential for maintaining long-term health. You don’t need to be an athlete to start—whether you’re a beginner or returning to fitness, martial arts meets you where you are.

2. Mental Clarity and Stress Relief

In today’s fast-paced world, stress can take a toll on our mental well-being. Martial arts training helps manage stress by promoting mindfulness, concentration, and mental resilience. When you focus on mastering techniques, such as in gentle art dojo Florida styles, you clear your mind from everyday distractions.

This focused training enhances your mental clarity, sharpens your cognitive abilities, and offers a productive way to release tension. Many adults find martial arts to be a form of meditation in motion, giving them the mental break they need from their daily responsibilities.

3. Self-Defense Skills

Learning to protect yourself is a powerful skill, especially as personal safety becomes an increasing concern. Martial arts classes for adults teach effective self-defense techniques, which can be critical in real-life situations. At The Martial Arts Leader, our instructors focus on practical self-defense skills that can help you feel confident in any situation.

For adults living in or near Florida, these self-defense classes are particularly valuable for developing the confidence and readiness to handle potential threats.

4. Discipline and Confidence

Martial arts require dedication, discipline, and focus, which can extend beyond the mat and into other aspects of your life. As you progress through your martial arts journey, you'll notice increased self-confidence. Whether you're mastering a new technique or advancing to the next belt level, each accomplishment brings a sense of achievement that boosts self-esteem.

Martial arts are particularly empowering for those who want to cultivate discipline, motivation, and personal growth. It’s not just about physical strength—it’s about fostering a strong mindset.

Why Choose The Martial Arts Leader?

At The Martial Arts Leader in Florida, we offer comprehensive martial arts training for adults, including specialized programs for karate for adult beginners and self-defense classes. Our instructors are highly trained and dedicated to helping you achieve both physical and mental success through personalized and supportive training.

Whether you're looking for martial arts classes near Florida or specific styles such as gentle art dojo Florida, we provide a space where you can grow, learn, and transform. Our classes are structured to fit any schedule, making it easier for you to start your journey, even if you're a complete beginner.

Conclusion

Martial arts classes for adults are essential not just for physical fitness, but for mental and emotional well-being as well. The unique combination of physical training, mental discipline, and practical self-defense skills makes martial arts one of the most transformative activities for adults. If you're near Florida and looking to begin your journey, The Martial Arts Leader is the perfect place to start. Experience the benefits of martial arts and see how it can transform your life.

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[yokaahe]

Osceola's Warrior Legacy is a live demonstration group of Indigenous Martial Artists who's main focus is reverse engineering The Seminole Tribe of Florida's martial arts that helped push back against the U.S.'s constant attacks during the 3 Seminole Wars.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Trumps of the Tropics: Brazil’s Far Right Plots Its Return

As president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro was often called the Trump of the Tropics, an association the Bolsonaro family actively cultivated. From the moment he was elected in 2018, he loudly celebrated the United States — in his first year in office, he even saluted the U.S. flag — but he saved his most intense loyalty for one American. When he met President Trump at the United Nations in 2019, he told him: “I love you.”

Before assuming power, Bolsonaro was an anti-democratic ideologue and former military man with a decades-long career in politics; Trump was a real estate developer and a media personality. But over the six years that Bolsonaro drove the news cycles in Latin America’s largest nation, he gave journalists a long list of reasons to equate the two men. Both made a show of praising authoritarian leaders, past and present, and liked to style themselves as defenders of law and order while acting as if the rules didn’t apply to them. Both formed an alliance with the religious right late in their careers and enlisted their sons to help push their respective agendas. Both frequently took to Twitter to attack their enemies, troll traditional media and rile up their supporters. And both retreated to Florida when things got tough.

For decades, the Brazilian right had looked to the United States, and when Donald Trump began to transform the rules of political discourse, it took note. “We learned to have the courage to speak up,” says Damares Alves, an evangelical pastor who served as Bolsonaro’s minister of human rights, families and women. “We began to be more incisive on the question of abortion. We learned we could be more direct about the question of arming the population. We realized we could take a tougher stand against the left-wing transformation taking place across our continent.”

As president, Bolsonaro seemed eager to import as much of the MAGA movement to Brazil as possible. So when Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to protest a “stolen” election, many Brazilians worried that Bolsonaro supporters might try something similar. That’s exactly what happened. On Jan. 1, 2023, when Bolsonaro’s opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leader of the left-wing Workers’ Party, took office, Bolsonaro skipped the ceremony, holing up instead in the Orlando suburbs, at the home of a mixed-martial-arts fighter. For weeks, Bolsonaristas had been camping out around the country, under banners calling for an “intervention.” In an echo of Jan. 6, they chose Jan. 8 to occupy and attack government buildings in the capital, Brasília, even though the transition had already taken place and the buildings were largely empty. Military police officers arrested more than 1,000 people, and Lula quickly reasserted control of the country.

Bolsonaro, like Trump, now faces a host of criminal charges for trying to impede democratic elections. Trump has been convicted in one case, but only Bolsonaro has been deemed ineligible to run for president. In June 2023, Brazil’s electoral court ruled that his attacks on the voting system disqualified him from running for any political office until 2030. He is now facing hundreds of other court cases. In February of this year, authorities confiscated his passport after arresting several former aides accused of plotting a coup, making another escape to Florida impossible. Bolsonaro took refuge for two nights in the Hungarian Embassy in São Paulo, perhaps hoping to leverage his relationship with Prime Minister Viktor Orban (one of many friends he shares with Trump) if flight became necessary.

While Bolsonaro is barred from the political arena — at least for now — the movement that he unleashed is very much alive. Bolsonaristasdid well in the election that he lost, demonstrating that the movement was bigger than the man, and they now have real power at federal and state levels. Because congressional politics in Brazil are byzantine — there are 23 parties in Congress, and members can shift allegiances quickly — it would be difficult for Lula to govern even if Bolsonaro’s right-wing Liberal Party were not the largest party in the legislature. As things stand, the Bolsonaristas routinely complicate things for Lula, as they try to pull the country back to the far right.

In 2023, Bolsonaro’s allies began working to create a kind of Bolsonarismo sem Bolsonaro, or Bolsonaro-style politics without Bolsonaro. In interviews in the capital late last year, a rough philosophical and tactical division emerged. One group wants to show that it is moderating its positions and committed to responsibly governing the country; another is doubling down on the kind of fiery rhetoric that drives engagement online and reproduces tropes familiar to observers of right-wing media in the United States.

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[cardonasacademydelray]

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[peachiseas]

okay i am very new here, so i need a through introduction to your mcs! like eve for example, pls post his whole biography o(╥﹏╥)o

fr tho, tell me anything and everything :D

TOOK SO DAMN LONG SINCE I WANTED TO DRAW A STEP ONE REF OF EVE BUT ITS GONNA TAKE A MINUTE so here are the sketches,,, Anyways- gonna introduce the main two mcs/ocs you'll see here: Eve Cortez Williams and Aaliyah Dubious

(dont mind my ipad scribbles on the screenshot iofqiowogi) Lemme put this under a readmore actually so yall dont get slammed with a long ass post:

Starting with Eve:

He's my Tamarack MC, but I figured since uh. all my art that was a given

He has a strained relationship with Qiu in step 1 but they become besties by step 2 and by step 3, they are like family to each other. If no one got Eve, Eve knows Qiu got them, amen 🙏

He comes out as transmasc by step 2, and by step 3 he gets top surgery and starts taking testosterone and firmly identifies as a butch lesbian

He's from the southern part of Miami, Florida. He's Golden Grove's residential florida man

He practices martial arts religiously, he's a big fan of Goku and Dragonball in general so he wants to be like his idol

His story deviates a bit from the OL2 generic mc story, he did have a dad! Opal and his dad wanted a kid but they both didn't want to get married and since the two of them were best friends, they decided to have a kid together (or well two but we'll talk about that later)

What's important to note from above is that his dad isn't around anymore because his father passed away a few months ago due to a car accident and Eve was hospitalized as a result

So by the time he's at Golden Grove, he's in anger stages of his grief and he doesn't want to be bothered. Which sucks cause hes neighbors with the two loudest kids on the block

Doesn't help he's a ESL speaker (English as a Second Language) and Golden Grove's population is majorly white so he has even harder of a time adjusting to it

He gets into fights in step 1... a Lot. Someone will look at him funny and they'll get punched in the face

He does adjust but he still doesn't like Golden Grove by step 3 but funnily enough, he moves away at the end of step 3 for treatment but moves back in step 4, crazy how that shit works huh

He has two emotional support bunnies; Bulma and Chi-Chi! He gets them in step 2, Qiu and Eve bond over them LMFAO

As for Aaliyah:

She's my Qiu MC, to the shocker of no one. Tamarack is also her best friend <3

Aaliyah is from New Orleans, Louisiana! She's full blooded Haitian and she has family in Haiti

She's also transfem! She passes for cis in step 1 thanks to hormone blockers and some makeup and then starts taking estrogen in step 2 and onwards

Her being black and transfemme is integral to her character and how she navigates around Golden Grove, she doesn't tell anyone she's trans until near the end of step 1. By step 3, the girl gang and Qiu knows shes trans

^^ That's because she had a very negative experience coming out to her community who previously loved her but flipped on her just as fast

So moving to Golden Grove was supposed to be a fresh start for her as herself but by that point she feels like she has to keep up her "cis-sona" lest she gets bullied again

She still gets bullied for other reasons in step 2 though (being a pretty black girl and the one person who has a crush on her is the most popular kid in school... its rough! 😭)

By step 4 though she is proud to call herself trans and will let people know!

She lovessss animals! And the animals love her back! She feeds them all the time and keeps animal food on her for that purpose when she goes to the park to read by herself, she got a flock of crows and stray cats that like to follow her

She has a cat named Kiki!!! Kiki loves everyone except Qiu though, Aaliyah doesnt know that though-

I hope that was enough of a info-dump! If anyone has anymore questions please ask i have so much lore please-

[aikidoofgainesville]

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