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Perception is reality to THAT person. We here will have varying degrees of interpretation across the board based on our own perception through our own understandings and knowledge and experience. This is a WKF Tournament, and whatever they had decided is their given right, and while I might not agree, I do respect their decision. Therefore, my decision in this regards still stands, nonetheless!!

It was a clash!! In clashes, accidents occur!! I disagree with the Judges decision!! Thomas is unable to continue, therefore, Stefan wins!! Under WKF Rules, Noah is right-on the money!!

Excellent article; thanks for sharing it, Brian!! As I'm quite fond of this saying... The summation of 'Why' is to the summation of 'Because'!! It's often overlooked when one forgets to add and consider the 'How' of it all.

If it's effective, than it's real!!

Congrats, pers; well deserved!!

Control the distance, control the timing, control the fight.Strategic stepping, timing skills, makes everything else possible to fall in to place. If you're not teaching timing, for one, then imho, you're not teaching anything whatsoever. No matter what one feels is preferred the most, so on and so forth, just as long as what is being taught is effective to its Nth degree. Pushing that which is important to the forefront, and everything else to the background, whether it be Distancing first or posture first or timing first, and i.e., footwork second or angle management second or stances second...just as long as the whole vehicle is addressed, and not that the vehicle isn't built in bits and pieces.

I think it's definitely down to the individual skill and talent. Not the form of martial arts at all. You can have the strongest punch in the world and best looking head kick but if you can't deliver it at the right time then it could be of no use. You can say that to a tennis player, you could have a great backhand but if you don't get there in time and hit the ball at the right time then it all goes wrong. Same with the goalie in soccer or etc.. Solid post!!

Welcome to KF, Theochh; glad that you're here!!

Welcome to KF, Kung fu master warrior; glad that you're here!!

That sentiment has some value, while it also takes away from the sentiment of reps over weight, somehow and someway. Individual workouts while they're quite tailored, might needs tweaking often, I'm a firm believer that many do not listen to their own body, on which, they overly push themselves, and band resistant bands usage is no exception. Can I easily use a Gold Gym Gold Resistant Band?? Yes I can, however, depending on which exercise I'm doing, more often than not, reps save me from overly straining myself. I said all of that to just say, I need to listen to my body, no matter what equipment I'm using at that time.

Like both my PCP and Cardiologist have always stressed to me...Do whatever you can tolerate; listen to your body, especially if you opt to push yourself. Seems concrete advice, to me.

I literally love and adore Resistant Band training for its obvious reasons. Working my abilities with them have helped me across the board. I had to give up my Gold Gym Black, Silver, and Gold Resistant Bands away per my Cardiologist due to my Afib. You see the Black Resistant Band is 7-10 pounds....then the Silver Resistant Band is 10-15 pounds...and the Gold Resistant Band is 14-21 pounds. Doesn't seem much, and in general, for me, it's not, but with Afib, they stress my heart just a tad to much. The Blue Resistant Band is 6-9, which is on the fence for me, so...I use the Green Resistant band which is about 4-6 pounds. Seems not much still, but oftentimes, reps VS weight are, for me, more preferred method.

There's nothing that I dislike about the jab; it opens and closes quite a many of things, and oftentimes, it ends many things. It was my go-to when I was a bouncer; a well meant jab gets ones attention. The jab is so versatile!! Nope; I've not ever experienced that. Perhaps I was taught correctly and I train correctly; never rush results!!

Difficult to imagine if timing was an option for whatever it needs to be applied to. Even in things that are muscle memory driven still have a timing cadence that must be required. Timing is the essential beat and/or rhythm that a MAist strives for because without it, movement is stalled as well as ineffective, even in its most basic action. One of the best timing drill for a MAist is through sparring, but not just any sparring, but sparring with a resolve. Otherwise, nothing effectively can be discovered. The more one spars with resolve, the more ones timing is refined...and that, right there, is the timing that one carries into battle.

Having a very effective jab can be the very difference maker in a SD situation. Training the jab might be one of the most important technique that one can never be a waste of training time. As JR states... No longer is the jab only a set-up technique; it's also can be the closer. It's limits are few and far in between because of angles and so on and so forth. Due to our empathetic approach to our brand of Tuite, the jab is quite important in our arsenal. Imho!!

I was diagnosed with Afib in October of 2016!! I had a Cardiac Inversion in January of 2017; Afib free, BUT, stayed in Sinus Rhythm for only 6 months, then went back into Afib, and I'm Afib still. Have been training in the MA for 54 years, and in that, I've always lifted weights and the like much more serious when I was in the 10th grade. Not to get big, but to remain fit and healthy. I had a daily routine when it came to my weight training, to be for sure, albeit, my routines would change if a hit a plateau. When I was diagnosed with Afib, I had to be careful as to what I could and couldn't do. With Afib, at rest, my heart rate is at 86 bpm, and with Afib, during workouts, my heart would would race to over 200 bpm, and it doesn't take much to raise my bpm during a workout to 210 bpm or more. So I have to regulate my workouts constantly, therefore my workouts take me much longer to complete, than when they use to. Please check out this... https://www.karateforums.com/renewing-myself-or-at-least-trying-to-vt50082.html This might give you an idea as to what my Afib workouts are like for me now!! My Cardiologist might do another Cardiac Inversion this January 2020; something he's seriously considering!! I never reached my goal of 215lbs in a year...3 years later I bounce between 250lbs to 244lbs...this drives me absolutely crazy!!

Welcome to KF, MaryTaiChi; glad that you're here!!

Very interesting how you've broken them down; nicely done!! I still view Paper, Rock, and Scissor as a reminder that not one technique or a set of techniques are ever enough; the more we change/switch, the more our opponent is constantly wondering...."What's next??"

It's the old fashion that lends that there is always more than one way to skin a cat. Just as in Paper, Rock, and Scissor, there's more than one option in the game of chance. So is it also the kin in the MA where one technique is never ever dependent on one solution. If I throw out Paper, I have a fifty-fifty chance of success. With my Paper here, Paper beats the Rock, however, Paper loses to Scissor. As a MAist, and with knowledge and experience, you need to have a fifty-fifty chance, and not a 25% chance of success. To every problem, there is a solution, and to every solution, there is a problem. Effective Combinations on the battlefield increase ones success. As in Paper, Rock, and Scissor, the summation of 'why' is to the summation of 'because', albeit, the MA as well. My Paper has to selected at the exact and given time against the Rock, and not against the Scissor. This involves that knowledge and experience. To know when to use the Scissor against the Paper, and not the Rock, requires an understanding of the 'why' and the 'because' at the right exact moment; skill wins over luck. As in a game of Chess, one needs to study the entire board, however, at the Opening Game unfolds, one should concentrate on the four-center squares, which we will call the Paper. Watching those four-center squares have to be carefully managed as well as controlled. Two players vying for the same real estate by covering their intentions: Paper!! Now these same players move here and there, covering their intentions with hidden movements as they fight towards the Middle Game. Carefully sacrificing pieces as though they mean nothing to either player. Behind their illusions, the unveiling begins to take shape as they cut through the others defenses with cunning and guild ploys: Scissor!! Frustration begins to mask over one of the players face as they enter the End Game; the battle is almost over. Trapping and manipulating and closing off any and all once forgone escape routes, but not with and/or through luck, but with the masterful blow which sounds that the other sides King is dead; Rock!! As a MAist, I juggle Paper, Rock, and Scissor each and every time!! What separates me from the other players?? No, not with just knowledge and experience, but with understanding. Knowledge can be the Paper...Experience can be the Rock...Understanding can be the Scissor; understanding binds the knowledge and experience...these three elements must be in concert with each other, and without that, there's no harmony. It's akin to a three-legged chair missing one of its legs; unbalanced!! Which technique to use isn't the question nor is it of any concern, but which one AT which time is the question because your opponent will have an answer, that one can be sure of if you depend on limiting your arsenal on the battlefield. Imho!!

I agree!! If there's to me no continued training, than the 1st Kyu should not open a dojo because that will be an injustice for the Student Body. Imho!!

The examples of mine above about the 1st Kyu's having stared a dojo, and them each being successful were dependent upon them still training and taking lessons from their Dan ranked Sensei, who just happen to be Sandan and higher CI's, as well as those CI's visiting those dojo's on a regular basis. That eased the apprehension across the board with their Student Body; with a CI visiting and still guiding the 1st Kyu's rests quite well with those Student Body.

The most direct route, otherwise, Direct Attack, stops telegraphing. Don't wind up or don't move your attacking weapon backwards first or don't pre-load the weapon. Don't attack until one's ready to do so, and even then, go straight to the target, even the hook is compacted towards its target. Arrest your footwork, otherwise, you alert your opponent. Everything for the most part, starts and ends at the same time within Shindokan. Moreover, in Shindokan, our goal at all times is Close Range Management; to get behind my opponent, either at an angle or directly behind, which opens our Close Range Attacks, as well as making it difficult to see my attacks and the like because I'm behind him. These are just a few ways that we prevent telegraphing, but as in anything, this is all dependent on the practitioner. All of the this and that won't mount a hill of beans if the practitioner can't be effective with this and that.

I'd say that if anyone was going to learn anything, and nothing else, at all, boxing would be the given choice, and then having learned some grappling of some sort; fights end up on the ground more than not. Albeit, for all of that to work effectively will be dependent on the individual, and not so much on the boxing and grappling.

Nothing is guaranteed across the board. Awareness also involves not making a bad decision, like when one's outnumbered...unless one has no choice. Only then can one do whatever they can; take out as many as possible, if even at all.

For anything to work in the streets will depends on the individual!! I don't see any reason(s) to question any method, boxing included, when the individual is responsible for its effectiveness. Imho!!