Martial Arts: The MMA Zone Blog

While everyone is increasing their prices The MMA Zone is striving and finding ways to lower prices for our customers.  We have already lowered prices on numerous martial arts and ninja supplies.  We will highlight those price drops here on The MMA Zone blog so you

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will be aware of them.  First we dropped the price on several ninja weapons and supplies.  One such item is the steel ninja fan.  Our competitors list this price around $44 so we had our price set at $39.  We found a way to lower the price even further to $33.99. This fan is made with a Black nylon taffeta cloth with 14 3/4″ long and measure 27 1/2″ wide when opened.  It also includes a nylon cloth bag for storage.  You also get two beautiful carved dragon on the ends on steel plate of the fan.  This fan weighs about 8oz.

Using fans in themartial arts was and still is a very common practice. This blended a bit of beuaty with danger and kept the Ninja's opponent from knowing they even had a weapon. Our Ninja fan is made from gold finished aluminum with a black finish and a nylon taffeta black cloth. This fan measures 14 3/4" long and 27 1/2" wide when opened. This steel Ninja Fan also comes with a nylon cloth bag which makes it easy for carring, storing, or conceling.. This ninja fan weighs in at around 8 oz.'s.

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Yes, we know it’s early but we thought we would get you thinking about the upcoming Halloween, because we just got in some fantastic kids ninja costumes.  Well these are actually true uniforms but they cost as much as most kids costumes.  You can really top it off with a ninja practice weapons wooden black sword and rubber ninja throwing stars.  They will be the envy of all the other kids.

Which do you want your kid to look like?  On the left we have a usual Kids Ninja Uniforms and on the right we have The MMA Zone’s Kids Ninja Costume.  I think you know which one to click.  Just click on the picture to order now.

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A study done by three German psychologists would let their money ride on the Chinese teams to win the most medals if their re

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search is correct. These three researchers found that referees in sports have a distinct bias for atheletes in red uniforms.

The three researchers Norbert Hagemann, Bernd Strauss and Jan Leibing of the University of Munster used Taekwondo matches to conclude their research. They found evidence that red uniforms have an affect on the split-second decisions a referee must be called to make, thus leading to a bias in scoring.

Their expirement consisted of watching two competitors in a Taekwondo match one with a blue uniform and the other with a red uniform.

They had the referees assign points to 42 different matches.

The the group shoed the referees a second set of matches which were the exact same matches but with the color of the athletes uniforms digitally reversed.

What they concluded was that the competitors in the red martial arts uniforms earned an average of 13% more then when they were in the blue, and remember ever athlete in the 42 matches appeared in bot the red and blue uniforms.

“What’s more, points awarded seemed to increase after the blue athlete was digitally transformed into a red uniformed athlete and decreased when the red competitor changed to a blue uniform,” said the researchers. “Referees decisions will ‘tip the scales’ when athletes are relatively well-matched but have relatively small influence when one is clearly superior,” they concluded.

The three researcher said that further research is needed to test other colors used in sports. They also suggested that this further the need for electronic decision making systems to avoid these human biases.

Order your Red Martial Arts Uniforms Here.

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Here at The MMA Zone we just wanted to let you know a few of the new items we have added online.  First is a Taekwondo Belt Rack for displaying all your hard work and deciation.  Next we added a coupld of new ninja weapons.  First, is the Ninja Kamas.  Ninja Kamas were first used in Japan as a sickle for harvesting crops.  It was then used by the Ninja as a weapon and a very versatile tool while on missions… (Read more about the Ninja Kama) Secondly is the Ninja Blowgun with darts.  Blowguns were one of the Ninja most effective weapons since it matches the Ninjas silence.  They were able to use it without tipping off their postion… (Read more about the Ninja Blowgun)

Great insight into the Lopez family getting ready for their upcoming Taekwondo matches in the Olympics.

http://summergames.lenovo.com/?p=89&language=en

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Here is the link to the video..

http://olympicsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/08/taekwondo-controversy-lopezabd.html

Here is a good post from Adam Graham who post a quote that I have long forgotten from the Karate Kid! Good Stuff!
http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/karate-kid-post-of-the-day-for-tuesday/

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This monkey has a better spinning heel kick then some of the 2nd degree black belts I have seen (Yes Tom that is you!). You have to check this out.. Monkey’s are always funny!
http://mailchimp.blogs.com/blog/2005/06/karate_chimp.html

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