As we hosted Saturday Night Fights in the past and as we showcased a video of an aerobic workout routine featuring some women recently we decided it’d be good to see that there were actually fights at these events too!
The traditional wooden dummy is a staple in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean martial arts. They do come in various shapes and sizes, but the most prevalent design is 3 arms and 1 leg. The Dummy is especially used in the practice of Wing Chun and is used to practice techniques, build bone density and train sensitivity. To read more about the wooden dummy, its history and its purpose please read more here
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The traditional wooden dummy is a staple in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean martial arts. They do come in various shapes and sizes, but the most prevalent design is 3 arms and 1 leg. The Dummy is especially used in the practice of Wing Chun and is used to practice techniques, build bone density and train sensitivity. To read more about the wooden dummy, its history and its purpose please read more here
Often times coaches and those not well versed in other Martial Art over-complicate the sport of Boxing. Boxing is not the most complex thing in the world. Defend and counter the punches. The limitation of legal techniques within the sport eliminates a lot of those strikes and combinations that might otherwise be utilized. Here at Calasanz Physical Art we create boxers from every day people in as little as 2 months and all focused on mastering the basics. Good defense, head movement, simple punches and building power. These are the foundational premises of being a good boxer and we train them here uniquely.
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Calasanz and Jenifer Lee worked very closely together during the mid 80′s. Recently we have uncovered some old footage taken during a Saturday Night Fight that used to occur weekly here at Calasanz Physical Art. Please follow here to read more.
Here Calasanz gives us his take on boxing and how he has created some of the scariest boxers in the North East over his career. Share / re-tweet if you like what we do here!
(Continued from part 1) Being sent to the city to study and immediately taking this journey of wanting to be the most educated person with just one purpose: to get a good job at a good company. Already having received the news from one of the best accountants in the Dominican Republic, Filiberto Rodriguez, and at this point was teaching all sorts of clerical business on his School (Academia “Las Mercedes”), Calasanz finished high school and was sent to Popular Bank one of the biggest banks in operation.
Calasanz soon felt uncomfortable because he knew that there was something better waiting for him, and did not waste time. Because of achieving so many diplomas, the bank would let me go to study and specialize in English as a second language in order to get much higher position, and this was very early in his career. All in Calasanz mind was going to America and making a movie with this he believed he would be just like Bruce Lee, but soon he realized after coming to the US, that was much more than just being like Bruce Lee.
In the beginning he even yelled and made sounds like Bruce Lee, and then he said to himself; “wait a minute I can be myself and I don’t need any to use from anybody else because of the ability I was born with”.
When he got to Bridgeport University in Connecticut he was the talk of the town. In less than one week he was know all over Bridgeport, and this was all based on his training methods but specifically because of his immense athletic ability which was seen in his jumping kicks and that nobody else could come close to imitate.
One month later he called the bank, I just told Mr Simon Castro who was the Vice-President of the bank, “I am staying in America, the dream is too beyond to let it go, I am making a movie and I will be Bruce Lee or as famous as Bruce Lee”.
Calasanz Life in the martial arts has been completely about showing what is inside the Art of Martial arts. He feels that even still after Bruce Lee brought to the screen a sense of emotion, expression, style, beauty of the martial arts and introduced it to the world before anybody else, today many still can not grasp the concept of this.
Calasanz considers himself as being born with this gift to understand that there is much more to the martial arts. It is not just kicking, punching, going to the ground, shooting, striking somebody with a weapon, etc, but rather, there is reality, beauty, style, balance, grounding, flexibility, endurance, conditioning, posture, stance, reflect, pride, character, success, intelligence, etc. and all of this is part of Kung Fu and the martial arts. Kickboxing, Mixed Martial Arts, Boxing, Mauy Thai boxing, American and Recreational boxing, this is was Calasanz believes and the understanding of the art of martial arts which indeed can be real, but it can be beautiful and stylistic at the same time.
A Calasanz’s Quotation, “Since I was a baby, a kid and a teenager, there was something that was beyond me, because of the age I could not understand, later on I could understand what was inside me”.
What brought the realization to Calasanz that something was beyond him? Calasanz going to the movies with his father and seeing Bruce Lee’s “Enter the Dragon”. It opened a new career direction and a clear idea of who Calasanz was, could and wanted to be. (To be continued!)
For the past several years I have been working diligently to put my system into a format that is accessible to people all over the world, not just the population close to my headquarters in Norwalk, CT. Believe me, this has been no easy task with 30 years of training, teaching, and living the martial arts up to 18 hours a day! I had so much information I wanted to release to the world, and to do that I started to produce the Formula Video Instructional Series.
Shortly after I started making The Formula Video Series a student suggested that I put all my videos into a format that could be delivered to people online. I thought it was a tremendous idea and we immediately met with a software company and the InterDojo was born!
The First edition of the InterDojo featured a free section and a paid section. The free section we posted a free video every week for anyone who was kind enough to leave us their contact information. The paid section consisted of only a video vault with about 20 Formula Videos and 30 Archive Videos. Formula Videos of course being the instructional series of my system and Archive Videos being a collection of 30 years of video of me and my students in action.
The Present
Today the InterDojo is also comprised of a free section and a paid section, however both are now more sophisticated then the predecessor.
In the paid section, the video vault has now been converted to a multi-media vault and is able to house not only video but also pictures, audio files, and PDF files. This is a great feature as it allows me more options to deliver information to subscribers! The media vault has over 260 videos now! Over 150 Formula Videos and over 100 Archive Videos! We have also started to add other media as well.
We’ve also added a broadcast TV channel we call Calasanz TV! It is available for free and has a line up selected Archive Videos a few Formula Videos and Group Classes you can participate in from home! Calasanz TV also allows us to broadcast live events such as fights, open houses, special seminars, and webinars, live from the Calasanz dojos.
The Future
I have been blessed (or cursed) with the ability to function with only 2-3 hours of sleep at night. So while your sound asleep at 3AM, I’m up thinking of Formula Videos to film. I have a list on my PC with over 3500 that I want to produce! Don’t believe me? Stop by the dojo and I’ll be happy to show you or give us a call at 800-414-9544 for more information. Great things are to come in the future for InterDojo.com. and we hope you are with us to see it!
Martial Arts and fitness videos at InterDojo.com for men, women, and children of all shapes, sizes, and abilities! Calasanz and the crew at InterDojo.com are busy creating and uploading instructional videos, martial arts action videos, fights, movies, and more!
No matter what your interest, whether it’s general fitness or no holds barred, UFC Style MMA fighting, the InterDojo has an instructional video just for you. For a low monthly fee you can access the Media Vault inside InterDojo.com complete with an easy to use control panel and view Instructional Videos including: the unique Calasanz Physical Arts Exercises, Goju-Ryu Karate Katas, Cheng Chuan Long Fist and Wing Chun Kung Fu Forms, wooden dummy drills, bone conditioning, fighting drills for boxing, kickboxing, and MMA, self-defense techniques and much more!
The great thing about subscribing to the InterDojo’s media vault is that videos are only part of the equation. Pictures, audio files, and text documents are all available to you to expand your knowledge of martial arts and fitness. The Calasanz System is the most unique martial arts systems in the world. Along with Karate, Kung Fu, Boxing, Kickboxing, and ground fighting, this system features a holistic exercise system called Physical Arts.
Physical Art exercises train strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, coordination, tone, and body unity all at the same time. They are sophisticated exercises that enhance all sport and physical activities. They are easy enough for an 80-year-old grandmother to increase her mobility, and at the same time unique and effective enough to increase the athletic prowess of a professional athlete. And these exercises are only available at InerDojo.com!
InterDojo.com also offers hours of exciting and entertaining videos of Calasanz and his students training through the years. See the evolution of The Calasanz System from 1979 all the way to today. Training, classes, fights, demonstrations, open houses, and sparring all at your fingertips!
