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It's about as much preperation as possible for as many possible conflicts as you can account for. Sure, firearms are pretty much top dog for killing in an interpersonel sense. And they are difficult to defend agaisnt. Still, unarmed skill can increase you're chances of survival, even when one's involved if you're practicing proper responses. That being said (not trying to turn this into a gun defense thread), there is a good likelyhood that you will be attacked by someone WITHOUT a firearm as well. In this, ma's can certainly prepare you for. Again, if practiced properly. Again, preperation for as many scenarios as possible.

Ok, since the thread got bumped, I'm going to say- Any weapon that you're not trained in, can't carry conceiled, or don't have access to when you need it. In my case, this rules out your traditional weapons save the knife and club.

Yeah, by and large from my experience, this kind of training is really important, but handled on a per movement basis. So we discuss how it is affected by different tactics. There is a place for pure instruction early on when talking about fighting stance and posture, but it's generally easier to make points about destabilization and such during the course of showing movements.

Jut keep breathing, keep fighting, and ignore the spectators, you'll be fine. Good luck.

I'm a bit of a knuckledragger on this one (well, on lots of things actaully ). I usually give someone a warining or two. A "bit hard" on that one kind of thing. If he's trying to control and failing, that's ok, keep working with him. If he's not. Then I blip him back. Hard.

I agree with you bushdo man, no this guy doesent' get to hit me first. He might not even get to try. I think you have to take the totality of the circumstance in mind here. How did he approach you? What is the context of your contact? His body posture? Ect. All in all, circumstances could dictate that he "attacked you" before he even threw a physical blow. I would personally take this as an adomonshiment not to go looking for trouble now that one has skill in unarmed combat.

Interesting. I would interperate it to mean total commintment to attack. Leaving all behind to damage the opponant. I'll have to bounce this one off a friend of mine who is fluent and see what he has to say.

In both facilities that I train at, the number of men is signifigantly greater than women. In one, we have no female students at all.

A proper dojo, as in commercial establishment, no. However, you do need a group of people to work with and someone who actually knows what he's talking about to pass it on. Some of the best training I've ever done was in a garage. That being said, everyone else training there was pretty skilled in one thing or another. And also to be fair, I've spend quit a bit of time in a dojo and/or training facility over the years. The key is really quality instruction in whatever it is that you want to do.

Mitts - 3, 5 min rounds went from moving and hitting in round one to adding a locking segment in round two, fulll to takedown/control in three. Positions and escapes and counters- 20 min Free Roll-20 min

Figured it was something like that. I know that the guy I trained under didn't care for what happened with the Dillman thing. Yes, he was one of this Oyata's student's. Just wondering if it was the same orgainzation. Good to see that it's still flourishing a bit.

Ok, for you guys studying Ryu-te, is it related to, or another name for Ryu-kyu kempo. I know that this system had a master Oyata involved in its oversight. Apparently, it's where Dilman acquired lots of his presure point theory from. It was a tuite based artform, lots of standing jj and joint manipulation. I've also seen video of Oyata breaking down kata, I can't say that this was my prinicple intrest. The reason I ask is that one of my old instructors was ranked in this so I kind of trace a linage, in part, back to this art. It's certainly where all of my standing joint manipulation came from. Anyway, there were enough similarities that I wanted to ask. As you well know, the more traditional aspects and history of the arts are not my strong suit . Thanks.

They will probibly get better with time. There are exerices that you can do to strengthen your feet and ankles but I'd try just working through practices first. They should get stronger as you go.

Slightly off topic- I'm just a breathing guy. Rarely use any kiai. I think that mainly it's importance is with breath control and intra-abdominal pressure. Breathing forcfully and in proper pattern will acheive this as well. What you're looking for is controlled wind in your lungs so your gut dosent implode if your strike is countered. Proper breathing will also increse stamina to a degree. There are a couple of reasons I t hink to stay away from the kiai. One, you give away the tactical advantage of suprise and you actually jump start the bad guys flight or fight response. If he falls into the fight catagory, you've just initated his adriline dump that will enable him to fight more efficiently for a time. Two, it does focus you on a single attack. This means that you will be less likely to flow into combination strikes, which are far more effective than relying on a single blow. So, regardless of language, I stay away from them and choose to focus on breathing and breath control.

Today- sweep series proactice-15 min free roll-20 min sparring (various focus)- 30

Gotta love Kung Fu....only Chuck Norris could best David Carridine . Seriously, welcome aboard.

Variety is the spice of life. Yes, it's cliche. But true. Mix things up, train different movements each day and keep cycling through. I'd pick a set and work on it for a 3-5 min round then move on. It's just me, but I get good results out of this method.

Thanks zanshin. There is something to be said for getting what you want out of a ma. One should find that path that most fits what he wants and/or needs out of the arts. Certainly, there are plenty of paths to pick from. I tend to look through a soley combative lens and disregard other aspects. I need to remember that not everyone is "bottom line".

As bushido man said, there are plenty of ways to skin this cat. I prefer a three day weight routine with legs on one day, back and bis then next and chest tris to finish the week. It's only prefrence. If you really wnat to build muscle mass you'll have to do split routines. Again, search the net. I'm gonna plug a site called crossfit.com here. Its the primary conditioning that I use and it's really good for ma-ists.

Very true. As for yesterdays training, I sat on the grading board for a friend class of purple belts. Got a fair amount of mat time as well. 15 min of spontaneous defenses, various attacks 20 min ground fighting 20 min various sparring types Oh yeah, I actually did the whole grading thing as well .

Today- 5k run 3 rounds- 1- heavy bad 2 double ended bag 3-my two long wall mounted maki's. focused on trapping and striking, folding strikes finished with a full pulls to inverted on the rings. Finally got to where I could rep on these a bit. Great workout Bushido-glad to hear I'm not hte only one who stops to play on the monkey bars. I sometimes think I have more fun on them than my kid does when we hit the park.

Pretty neat find!

I started because I wanted to learn how to fight. Turns out, not much has changed over the years. I'm still trying to figure out hte best way to do that.

Soda where I live now. Pop where I grew up.

Not yet, but mybody keeps telling me to start modifying my training .