Neil

Theorizing about what to do in a fight is very foolish becasue in a real fight you will never do what you would do in theory. If you practice a jutsu art and practice the applications from the kata against a live fit oppenant trying to resist you can start to see what a real fight is gojng o be like. But doujng these what if scenerios is a complete waste of time as there is hundreds of ways you could get attcked. personally I would spit in the eyes of the first person then kick him in the crutch then smash his face in, next guy you could poke in the eys then shove your hand down his mouth and if a life or death situation presented itself, you can shove the hand down enough so the person dies instantly. others things could be headbuts, tearing ears, biting nose off or ear, smashing down onto chest resulting in heart failure and death instantly. To theorize about these situations is pointless, becasue in the end of the day it is all in how you react in adrenalin. If that encounter happend to me I would probobly forgett all the street fight techniques and just start punching like hell. Neil

"Neil: “A great mind is calm and respectful; a small mind is restless and arrogant” Confucius. " I may be a young man filled with testosterone but I know what a Martial Art is. TKD has no respect,

I have already read this article and looking at the applications page can tell that these people don't really have a clue. Anything with the suffix Do is NOT a Martial Art. Do literally translates to way/place. But is basic meaning is to make a Martial Art safe so it ca be practised safely as a sport. It has nothing to do with fighting. They say that you need Do to show the mental character and with only Jutsu you would just be a violent thug. Jutsu systems are hundreds of years old and its first uses where to create social etiquette and order within society. It was used for religion, health, and creating a stable character. Its very last use and only application was to destroy the enemy in self defence. And then you people go on about the Do in Japanese Karate and how you need Do for the character, and Jutsu just for the applications. You haven’t even got any Jutsu anyway. Your applications are down to the block/punch routine which was used in Okinawa to learn range of movement and strengthen the techniques, not the applications. Applications was brought out by pushing hands and trying applications directly from the kata and applying them on a fit person trying to resist. Not this crap about marching up and down the dojo floor to no where. Here is an extract from Steve Morris's Article "All, it seems, preferring instead-liie the many 4th, 5th and 6th Dan senior representatives of the world's leading Okinawan and Japanese masters who had visited me over the years and who effectively declared the same-to continue in perpetuating those empty legacies only suitable for the teaching of scoolchildren bequeathed by Itosu Ankoh and Hiashionna Kanryo to their most senior pupils. Legacies which, after their military dissimulation within the schools, colleges, universities, military and naval academies of Okiawa and Japan during the Meiji, Taisho and early fascist Showa Era, were to become the very foundations upon which the Karate Shin Budo traditions or Empty Hand modern military disciplines of Okinawa and Japan now stand. The early Showa Era being a period during Showa troops, who believed their emperor to be divine and the Japanese as a race superior to all others, whilst marching to an ultranationalistic beat of Bushido under an officer cadre many of whom were graduates of the Butokukai, butchered millions of innocent men, women, children and babies (some still unborn) across Manchuria, China and Southeast Asia between 1931 and 1945. It was also during this period that some of those who where later to become influential figures within the Kempo and Karate0do and kobudo hierarchies had served as agents for the Kempeitai, only escaping being convicted and possibly hung for their war crimes, like some of the men who recruited them, by the skin of their teeth. The kempeitai, for the benefit of the reader, being a secret military organisation whose atrocities against man would have brought an enthusiastic nod of approval from Pol Pot and even I am sure the Devil himself. This belief of superiority as a race that led to the rape of Nanking in 1937 when 250,000 innocent civilians were butchered, still pervades in Japan to this day and is one that leads to that self-exaltation of madness called megalomania that is exhibited by some of the masters of Okinawa and Japan, one that is often endorsed by those minions of the West who serve their every need. Despite, that is the obvious deep hatred for foreigners that still exists within modern Okinawan and Japanese society and their failure as a nation to officially apologise for their crimes against man that were committed during that last war." Neil

Thanks for the correction. I just remember my teacher talking about certain bodily reactions and probobly got it mixed around. It is interesting to understand all the reactions to adrenalin but what I think is more important is understanding how to use thuis understanding to our advantage. In the moment between aniticapation and confrontation the adrenalin can be controlled with diaphragmatic breathing (deep controlled breathing throught the nose. This slows down the realese of adrenaling aloowing you to think more clearly and it now overwhelming you. Also the knowledge that it is okay to be scared and the feelings should be accepted and not faught can help as well. A brialliant book to get is 'Fear' by Geoff Thompson

TKD is a krappy sport, and is a very bad version of Shotokan karate, that is less than a century old, created by a man who had no idea what he was doing. TKD is a Do and is NOT a Martial Art!

vrey few people actually know hot to perform roundhouse kicks let alone others. When you execute the roundhouse you kick you use the whole body, but it is the waist that moves first, then the leg cathes up and then the whole body travels DOWN. When ever you see people exuting high kicks it is not actually a kick. All kicks travel down. Round House execution: 1. Turn the waist FIRST 2. Then let the leg catch up 3. As the leg comes round pivot the standing leg foot away so the whole body drives in. 4. Make striking application with either the top of shin, or knee. 5. Snap the leg back so that the raised knee is in front of your chest and now your pivoting foot is facing slightly forward so you are ready to perform a front kick so you can protect the groin. 6. Step into the next stance. 90% of karate clubs will teach you to raise the leg out to the side first and then turn the hips. This is wrong. This is bad karate and should not even be called this. People have had countless hip operations due to this very kick. It is bad biomechanics of the body. All karate movement is natural and was created with the body mechanics in mind, so don't listen to people who wish to muck up peoples bodys. The muscles used is really the waist. The best way to condition and strenghen the kick is to drive your kicks into a heavy bag. To strenghen the kicks movment you can apply ankle weights to the leg and perform slowly in ir. And then apply it to the bag. Also remember to bend the standing leg as it provides stability and power.

You cannot go straight into a 1 finger tip push up. You have to build up. I can do it with 3 at the moment. First you have to start off with all the fingers and thumbs and then build up. Say 30 pushups with all fingers and thumbs. The increase the resistance by taking a finger off and then repeat the process until you have it on one finger. You can also do finger tip handstand pushups.

This is what is wrong wight Karate today: DREAMING In a fight the nuro adrenaling starts to pump adrenalin to the body. Blood rushes to the inestinal organs so if cut round the face blood doesnt get in the way. This is why faces tend to go white in a fight. You will start to have tunnel vision (blinkiring of eyes) so that vision improves and if taked to the ground dust and dirt doesnt get into you eyes. Limbs may start shaking as the adrenalin gets pumped into them. These are just some of the many natural bodily reactions to confrontaion which happens to EVERYONE and is natural and protects the body. So what happens. You revert back to your karate lessons of block counter strike. The guy comes up, your mouth pale, your legs trembling, you feel the need to cry, you constantly ask your self "why is this happening to me! Why can't this feeling just go away!". This is real life. The guy comes in smashes you straight in the face and you then realize all you have learned is false lyes that instructors of what they call "Karate" and "Martial Art" have told them. In a fight everything is second nature. This doesnt meen lining people up and down the dojo punching thin air. It means pracicing you kata, taking the REAL LIFE applications of the kata and practicing them against a live fit oppenant who is trying rto resisit. And you create and environment that triggers the adrenal glands into action so when you feel the adrenalin pumping round your body you'l know how to react. There is no such thing as a block, or throw in karate. These are 2 things which are used to teach body movement, and nothing more. Neil

Skipping improves cardiovascular endurance as well as working the calves, thighs and buttocks and it also works the abdomen and lower back a bit cos as you bounche your abdomen and back tend to contract to support the shock. The other benefits are improved co-ordination of footwork, and agility. When you skip you want to be going as fast as you can go, to simulate a real fight. A fight is anerobic, I have heared in scientific boxing that fighting is 70% anerobic, and 30% aerobic. GWhen you skip do it as fast as possible, and skip for fighting not for lazingly jogging away on the same sport, imagine fighting while you skip. The other thing you should also do is interval training. Sprint 100 meters or sprint for as long as you like and then till you cant sprint any more you jog 100 meters or whatever you want to jog until you recover and then repeat the whole process again. Boxers use the later where they tend to sprint for long periods of time and then recover to simulate the endurance needed in a fight.

Just asking if anyone that is in the boxing game had some advice from their coaches on what a healthy diet is for energy and so on so your workouts are more sussesful and maintaining energy while in the ring. thanks, Neil

What you want is coordination of muscles ie compound. You do not want to be a bodybuilder who isolates muscle groups, this will give you that pumped look but will give you no real functional strengh. Avoid things like hand grippers since they isolate your forarm. Concentrate on finger tip pushups, then using less and less fingers to add more pressure then you could try finger tip handstand pushups or simply holding a handstand on your finger tips. The other thing you could do is climbing ropes, but for this you need a gym with ropes. the alternative to this is do what I do and that is rope pull ups. Loop a rope or 2 folded karate belts around a chin up bar or tree hold on and then perorm pull ups. To coordinate power you need to do exercises that hit a range of muscles at the same time. You don't just have to do bodyweight calisthenics. You could also use a lot of traditional Karate implements such as gripping jars which is 2 jars filled up with concrete. Another is this stone weight with a long peice of string attched to it with a handle at the other end, and you un wrap the string and lift it up by the handle so the stone weight is lifter off the ground and then you turn the handles which bring the stone up as the string wraps round the handle, thats the best grip exercise I have ever done using equipment. But I have found the best just using my own body and gravity. Experiment, keeping in mind that if you are using a large number of muscle groups at the same time the better. Neil

High kicks can work in the ring but when it comes down to the street high kicks will never work. But of course we are talking about Muay Thai not street fighting and they are 2 completely different things. High kicks could work I ised to use them a lot when I was younger when I did sport karate but for a more combat effective fight use your kicks like a boxer uses body shots, ie use the kicks to bring the body down then come in with knees, elbows and so on, like a boxer works the body so eventually the oppenant lowers his body letting you give a knockout blow.

high kicks? Good for training useless in a real fight. use your kicks to take out the thighs and stomachs of the people, that is how the Muay Thai really apply this. The reason I know this is because my teacher actually went to Malaysia and trained with the Muay Thai, no head kicking there, they mainly make contact with the upper shin with round house kicks that travel down into he thigh. Remember all kicks travel down, never up, that why you have hands! Front kicks are mainly applied to the stomack and are push kicks to give your self distance. you can also use it to kick the person against the corners and then get in-close with knees, elbows and close shots to the body. Neil

I'm gonna go with the Kamikaze America due to the fact of its price and it sais its a good tough Gi which is what I want, and its a heavy weight. People at my club have had kamikaze gis that have lasted 10 years and they said that they are great, but they are now wearing Shureido. I think the best are probobly Shureido but by just a small margin since everyone that has tried both of them seem to say shureido by just a very small margin but then of course you are paying more for better quality, but at the moment kamaikaze is best for me. cheers, Neil

Has anybody got any video clips in windows media of some good cat fights or mixed wrestling? cheers, Neil

After the fight with Mike Tyson biting his opponants ear off Royce Gracie challenged Mike to a fight since his art includes lots of biting and pinching. Mike Tyson and thw whole company didn't even give him a reply. Not even a no. They s*** them selves.

Many people have very drastic ways of dieting. Matt |Furey recomends eliminating all starchy carbs and eating plenty of lean proteins and fruit and vegetables. My teacher who has many diplomas in kineasilogy and nutrition says that you need 35% fat in your diet and if you eat less thatn that you will actually put fat on. He sais the reasen peolple are so over-weight in america is the cheap meats that every one buys, and since the body only needs 8% protein daily the rest is stored in the body and not used resulting in large stomaches, waist, bums etc. My teacher sais a very good book to get is the Okiniwan Program. This was written by researchers whpo did a survey of the longest living people in the world. It just so happend that it was the people of Okiniwa, and so I think they simply followed the principles of what these people ate to keep the body healthy. My teacher sais its very good and by far the best diet book you can read not only for losing weight but keeping your slef healthy. You can have a look at it here. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dbooks%26field-keywords%3Dokiniwan%20diet/103-2737979-7305446

I know this may seem obvious but how should your attitude be when approaching the club, hard and mean, or polite and gentle or both? Just want to know out of respect. thanks, Neil

Are club is doing an order at https://www.kamikazeweb.com and I need to buy a gi. But could someone tell me which gi tends to last longer and has tougher material, Shureido or Kamizake Gis. thanks, Neil

I'l soon be starting at either 2 Amateur boxing clubs. They are quite far away and they have raised boxers from amateur level to professional. The one thing I wanted to ask is for some reason I feel really nervous. For anyone who belongs to a boxing club feel nervous when first approaching a boxing club?

In Okiniwa even today teachers will only teach a student 2 or possibly 3 Katas. One for strengh and one for fluidity. When my teacher wanted to learn the 12 katas of Goju Ryu had to go all over Okiniwa and Malaysia. The applications a particular kata certainly do suit different people. In Goju Ryu Saifa is definatley a desendent from White Crane and is suited to a much smaller and agile person. But a kata like Saiichin is definatley a Tiger kata and is suited to a much bigger person. Also there maybe different interpretations of the same kata and some interpretaions may be taught to different people. My teacher is teaching a kata to the brown belts in the class who are great big blokes but has taught his 2nd Dan grade who is a very small female the kata differently, with some parts differant stances and sometimes doing a chudan instead of a jodan and so on. Steve Morris in Horsham easily the most devastations and feared people out there has 3rd Dans who only know 2 or 3 katas! Usually Sanchin, Saifa, and Gekisai Daichi. It is definatley about quality and not quanitiy, but in this modern Karate-Do world which genrally makes up 90% of the Karate out there have the all to familiar grading every 3 months routine, so you end up being a black belt in 3 years with 20 or so katas under your belt with not a single one understood, your just left with shapes. I think I would have to have many more years of training before I would ever know what kata would suit me, but I do like the applications from the kata Gekisai Daiichi. I love the simple fourarm attcks and the tearing techniques in it.

Karate-Do don't work either. Boxing it self does not work, althoguh the punches will. In a fight (which I do no quite a bit about from experiance!) you have no time to block, do a thro, put a lock on, put a guard on. You just headbut, punch and bite and then run. You don't see that in boxing. If someone tried to start a fight with me and start boxing me I'd just kick him in the groin. Boxing is an art and a sport and yes when you put gloves on that takes all the street fighting scence out of it. I know not from studying fighting or theorizing about what will happen but simply from experiance. I know I'm only 16 but I'v been getting in fights all my life and if you think that what you do in the ring is going to win in a fight you are dreaming! Just like them Karate-Do people who think your going to get into a stance and perform a technique. Boxing belongs in the ring but not on the street. I may have only done about 2 years of mucking around boxing we every week me and a few mates put on a pair of gloves and beat the crap out of each other for a laugh but it don't workin a street fight. But one thing is for sure, that boxer is going to have one mother of a punch that will work in a fight! When people are pushing and shoving you, the adrenalin (fight or flight) is pumping around your body and there is no time for consious thoguh you just have to ask and if you think your gonna start prouncing round jabbing the guy well, what more is there to say.

Boxing, Muay Thai, Kickboxing is brilliant and will beat almost anything in the ring. However. Boxing is not and never was meant for the street and does not work. True the boxer will have a very strong punch but the boxing it self wont work

No. It comes from you waist. Do not do the classic Shotokan mawashi geri. First you move th waist and let the the rear leg catch up and throw all your bodyweight DOWN. Remember all kicks travel down never up like you see in all the van damn films, thats why you have fists! The ontact is made either with top of shin or knee. It is definatly a close-range kick at its most effective tool. Your body should be side on now. Turn the body forward as you snap the kick back so you are ready to do a front kick. Then place it down. If you ever travel to Malaysia you will see probobly the best executers of a proper round house kick. Ther Muay Thai fighters. You will never see them using their hips only their waists.

this where he is called a swarmer http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/1047/Rock4.html also is this a good guide to the basic boxing styles but instead using different words than swarmer? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/static/in_depth/boxing/2001/blow_by_blow/punch.stm thanks