Neil

Actually government guidlines over healthy eating is actually getting people ill! The food pyramid of eating grains as are main source, is now being recognised by many knowledgable nutritionists as unhealthy and leading to disease. We have to eat what we where designed to eat as human beings. People are not fat because of fat, but from too much grains and starchy foods. The body needs fat, and quite a bit of it. Fats from vegetables, nuts and proteins, and not from fish and chips and fried food is what we need.

I'v already e-mailed the website to ask if Tom could add on his nutrition page about gaining weight, yet if anyone else wouldn't mind also sending an email to him if he could add on his nutrition page about gaining weight that would be great, since having a greater number of e-mails would show them that there is a greater demand for that. To e-mail the site click on the website in my signiture, and then go onto supplementary training and there you will find the nutrition page with the authers name Tom Crudgington or something like that, then e-mail the website info@morrisnoholdsbarred.co.uk thanks, Neil

http://www.kamikazeweb.com/index.php?action=articles&id=060 The wall mounted one was the one I bought and it is very tough. Its a bit pricy but beleive me it lasts! Very well made in Okiniwa and made to withstand. That other one looks a bit soft, and pretty soon you'l probobly end up hitting the wall. Its just a little cushion designed for little kids, not for a mature fighter. Neil

http://www.kamikazeweb.com/index.php?action=articles&id=060 The wall mounted one was the one I bought and it is very tough. Its a bit pricy but beleive me it lasts! Very well made in Okiniwa and made to withstand. Neil

I'm 16 and I use a makiwara from Shureido as well as a heavy bag. I would say if you are concerened about growth maybe you should stick to a heavy bag but since I have been about the same height (5'7) and have very short arms I don't really care, so I just hit away. Makiwara teaches correct biomechanics, and skeletal alignment like nothing else, since if you hit it worng you are just gonna injure your slef. With the bag you can also use it for movement training and you can do anything you like with it. Neil

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.platt/OldPics2.html Scroll down the page. Picture entitled "Steve Morris, myself and my students, 1995." Master Morris is the third from the left (the one with the long hair) AGKK_Karateka sent me this picture since it is the only image he knows of him on the internet, but when I sent that picture of him to his website and Tricia Sullivan who answers the e-mail for him showed him this he went really pissed off. That man he is pictured with is called Alan Platt and Steve hates him since he is physically inept, and he stoll some of Steve's ideas on animal movement and put it on his website claiming it to be his own and then brags about being his student when in reality he only trained with him a few times. Anyway just thought I might show you what he looks like, you know, put a picture to the story. Anyway as he said on his website he is approaching 60 but thats nothing, but he is still taking out men half his age. My teacher didn't beleive his rumors either, that was before he went to train with him though!

I have to say this was not the respone I thought I was gonna get, if any response at all! Infact one of Steve Morris's students is on this forum and his name on here is Truthseeker. My teacher has trained with him and he has told me that on some occasions he often thought if he was gonna come out alive. The crucial thing here is perspective. For example my teacher does not like sport as it is not a real fight since you have to have rules and a refferee. But what Steve is into is something as close to the real thing as possible. I don't agree with him on kata, but I think maybe NHB should be incooperated? Neil

Go onto the website in my signiture, and go onto his biography or whatever you want. What do you think, Neil

Fetish? I thought it was every mans dream to be beaten up by a women, especially that girl on the front, wow!

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I have bought 3 of his books and are all brilliant, although expensive I havn't seen any other stuff that works!

What? Then scissors is deadly! A few months ago we where doing grappling we where he to go from one hold to another, each time trying to get out of the others and apply your own. I was doing great dispite being 15 and 5'7 facing someone around 6 ft and about 30 or so. But when he got be in a bodyscissors it really hurt. I couldn't get them off, the only way ig out out of that was by grabbing his bulls. Personally I would have prefered being in between the thighs of a girl, have any of you girls here applied any type of scissors to men and did it work, this is from a combat effective perspective of course. Neil

When I went down to the boxing club and told them I do karate they laughed out right. My teacher said they would. Boxers see karate people as punching with the arm, but this is true when looking at the majority of the karate out there. Its incredibly pathetic that people don't even know simple body mechanics and this is one of the reasons so many of todays Martial Artists and getting injured. One very big misconception when it comes to punching is people thinking you punch from the hips. You use the waist when punching. Basically all the power from a punch or kick comes from below the knees as 'The Cat' always used to go on about karate happening below the knees. The more you push your legs into the ground the more power you will acheive. It all works on the very very basic principle of ying/yang. When you push into the ground by bending the knees, you get an equal force back. You do not punch with the legs, you simply get your power from them. You punch with the waist, which turns the entire upper body, with the legs already being locked into the ground and staying anchored as the waist moves moving the entire upper body in the same direction-forwards, then the fist catches up, like a catapult. I just wanted to make this post as I can't be bothered to go and argue on another post where people have to go through about 3 pages to see everyones view. When it comes to kicking you are punching with the largest muscle in the body, the bottom, or the gluetus maximus for a more scientific word. power comes from bending the stabalizing leg, and also helps with balance and stabalization. Side kick uses a lot of abdomen in the execution of it as well. I just wrote this in a rush so there is probobly a load of stuff I missed out so if anyone knows anything about biomechanics they can add. Neil

Well, actually a kick is most effective to the groin, rather than to the head, thats why you have fists! I'm afraid you are actually wrong there! Why do I know this? Not through theorizing, but doing. Get a dumbell out or a chishi if you have one. Now punch out. Experiment with different distances. Try punching and holding your arm out so it is almost locked-out. Then try holding it a few inches away from the body. I think you migh find it is a lot easier to hold the dumbell when it is closer to the body. All the time the punch or kick is travelling from the body it gets weaker. You migh say it gts more powerful as it increases in speed, but at the same time it is ISOLATING itself from the rest of the body. Isolation is weak! Co-ordiantion is strong. The closer the arm is to the body, the more connected it is, and makes it stronger. Don't beleive me? Well pick up the dumbells! You can use exercise for health and fitness, but you can also use it to learn correct biomechanics, such in this case. Also punch the bag, or makiwara and see the difference bettween a low close-in shot, and a long-rabge punch going upwards, and watch the distance the bags moves. But since we are arguing about distance, as we already know that something going down is a lot stronger than something traveling up, so simply experiment by punching straight out from a close distance, and then from a longer distance. Or you can just ignore me and continue to write bull****. Neil

Thats very interesting. I already know about hiting to the body, as you really want to be doing something that you can do better than what he can. For example why hit the head-since he has more advantage and suitabilit to punching to the head, where as punching to the body is more suited to the shorter fighter as he is already squat enough to pumle straight into it, wheras the taller one may find that difficult to crouch low enough. Did you see the Lewis vs Klitshko fight? There where hardly any body shots. Also the higher a punch or kick travels, the weaker it gets, becasue obviously you are going against gravity, rather than using it. Thats why when you see all these martial artists using all these high punches and kicks, you can really see how much they really know about fighting. You want to be punching down. I know I must make everything as short as possible, and use my waist and bum to manifest the punch, and get all my power from bending my knees as much as possible. Yamaguchi sensei used to say that all karate happens below the knees. Standing toe-to-toe is not good, but getting in-close is the only way to be at my most effective. I want really small powerful punches. Remember, the further a punch travels, the weaker it gets, as it is being isolated from the body more and more.

What are we talking about here? Any Japanese Martial Art vs any Okinawa Martial Art? Or are we talking about karate? The basic suffix gives us an indication as to whether it is still practiced as a Martial Art, or practiced as a safe sport. Jutsu is a Martial Art that has devastating application in a real fight but it all comes down to the person. Do is taught as a safe sport. I know I have said this a million times but it still doesn't seem to click. Neil

yeah, my teacher is friends with the boxing coach, also the strange thing is that I will be boxing at his club-Ijust have to wait for him to get through to him. He is a pikey and appraently built like a pit bull, but its really gonna be amazing. We'r all rough and tough and love the punishment really! Neil

Has anyone ever palyed this? What you do is you get 2 medicine balls place them in the middle of the pitch. Have 2 teams which have one ball each, and the objective is to get each of their balls on to the opponenats side. Rules? There are no rules! Possible the most brutal ball game out there! Finally a ball game I can be good at! My karate club will be playing a boxing club sometime in the summer, and we will all put in some money to play and the money we make from the game, will be given to a childrens home. The good thing about this is the team who win get to give the money to the children! You see? Violance does have a positive side to it!

I would just like to add to that post. A lot of people think that a healthy diet should be moulded to your environment. The reason westerners are so overweight and obese is due to eating foods that are not native to their country, but of course it also due to unnatural porcessed foods. 2 very healthy races of people are the eskimos whos diet is compromised of 80-90% protein and fats. Yet they don't suffer from heart disease or any of the other dieseases that westerners get through to much meat. Yet asians have a diet high in complex carbohyrdrates, low in fat, low in protein. This is becasue for thousands of years there bodys have adapted to their region. I guess westerners should eat foods that are grown in their soild, and eat animals that are native to their land, and eat fruits that are also native to their land. Maybe potatoes, beef, carrots, bread, soup would be best? Neil

To your answer, yes. We practice all the applications from the kata. We practice against a live fit opponent who is trying to resist. With regard to breaking joints, its rather stupid to break someones arm or leg just to see if it works, just a good bit of punishment on the joint can teach the mind that it works. Eye gauging is practiced a lot, we sometimes do swapping drills where we massage the area by touching the eye with soe force. Groin kicks are applied softly, but who in the hell as bulls made of iron? 2 places you cannot hit with full force are the eyes and genitals, if I have to explain that to you, well... KO out someone with chokes can be very dangeoruus, but yes once again we do practice finding pressure points on the neck against a stationary person fisrt of all just to find them, and gain some hands-on approach to finding where they are. Then we practice against a live fit opponent and whack all the pressure points in a given area, for example a heavy forum against the neck. We do practice chokes, which can be very handy when in a pub or bar when trouble makers come in the scene, and you need to escort them. KO people unconsous is pretty stuipid, all you need is a bit of pain and punishment to know what works and what doesn't. The thing is, the reason a boxer would be good in a fight has nothing to do with the boxing itself, it has much more to with the boxer himself. The boxing would be useless in a fight, and it is, since people don't box in a fight, they fight in a fight. You have to understand this. We are practicing them and doing them. This is not like the rest of the 95% of the karate out there where people march up and down a room punching thin air as hard as they can, and practicing some kind of balley which they call free sparring which they think is what a fight looks like. Neil

Marciano used to take 3 or 4 punches just to deliver one. It is said that it is the most brutal fighter to be, and thats why there are so little of them. Today there are virtually none, especially in the heavyweight world. Are jabs really hard to get passed? When I do see the occasional swarmer they always seemed to be really troubled by getting passed the jab, and as soon as he does get close in they clinch. Are I would imagine that jabs arn;t that hard to get passed-all you have to do is raise your fists up by your head and charge. Just charge him, with him hiiting your fists while you pumle at his body, but I guess it obviously not as easy as that is it? Neil

Yeah thats exactly what I want. Thanks a lot. Any more strategeis would be kindly appreciated and helpful, Neil

This is the thing where theory vs experiance. Myself and my teacher have been in loads of fights. Him mainly on the street, and me in schools and youth clubs. I can honestly say if you think you will fight on the street like you do in the ring you are living in a dream world. Fighting is always dirty, it is nothing like fighting. If you want to learn how to fight in a ring do boxing. If you want to learn how to stop a fight on the street-which is what you wanna be doing so you can end the fight within a few seconds lending you energy to run home before the police find you and arrest you, even though you acted rightly.