{"id":4977,"date":"2015-03-22T17:27:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2017-10-20T18:40:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T01:40:40","slug":"dance-and-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=4977","title":{"rendered":"Dance and Martial Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a saying that comes around at Maelstrom,<br \/>\n&#8220;Give no man a sword who cannot dance,&#8221; (Confuscius)<br \/>\nDancing and martial arts have a lot in common and it is no coincidence that some of the best martial artists have dance in their backgrounds. Both require a great deal of coordination, stamina, strength and body awareness.<br \/>\nPartner dancing and partner drills have a great deal in common as well. Below is an article by Lori O&#8217;Connell from Pacific Wave Jiu Jitsu, on ballroom dancing and martial arts specifically.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DmZ6IXcRKy\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pacificwavejiujitsu.com\/blog\/what-ballroom-dancing-the-martial-arts-have-in-common\/\">What Ballroom Dancing &#038; the Martial Arts Have in Common<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cWhat Ballroom Dancing &amp; the Martial Arts Have in Common\u201d \u2014 Pacific Wave Jiu-jitsu\" src=\"https:\/\/pacificwavejiujitsu.com\/blog\/what-ballroom-dancing-the-martial-arts-have-in-common\/embed\/#?secret=DmZ6IXcRKy\" data-secret=\"DmZ6IXcRKy\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Reproduced under fair-use and with credit)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a saying that comes around at Maelstrom, &#8220;Give no man a sword who cannot dance,&#8221; (Confuscius) Dancing and martial arts have a lot in common and it is no coincidence that some of the best martial artists have dance in their backgrounds. Both require a great deal of coordination, stamina, strength and body awareness. Partner dancing and partner drills have a great deal in common as well. Below is an article by Lori O&#8217;Connell from Pacific Wave Jiu Jitsu, on ballroom dancing and martial arts specifically. What Ballroom&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=4977\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","cat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}