{"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=\"rpUiA3k6NS\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/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 class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/pacificwavejiujitsu.com\/blog\/what-ballroom-dancing-the-martial-arts-have-in-common\/embed\/#?secret=rpUiA3k6NS\" data-secret=\"rpUiA3k6NS\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" title=\"&#8220;What Ballroom Dancing &#038; the Martial Arts Have in Common&#8221; &#8212; Pacific Wave Jiu-jitsu\" 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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977"}],"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}]}}