Himokiri Karate

I disagree with the berserker mode thing, the problem is in todays day and age we have uneven surface such as sidewalks as well as people with cell-phones. So in these situations when you lose control two things will happen: 1. You will go crazy and destroy the guy and if a witness can get it on camera then your gonna have to explain to the court your blood thirsty behaviour and not to mention the fact that you used ZERO martial arts since its impossible to do so in that mental frame of mind 2.If you go crazy and start swinging then you may lose your footing or trip and end up seriously hurting yourself. But if you learn how to spar then you will get a better understanding of what fights outside look like. Now as a boxing practioner Im not gonna pertend its a boxing match, if the guy is bigger then me I will forsure punch him in the knee cap or the johnsons Basicly it doesnt really matter what I say, people who dont spar will close there eyes/look down on the ground. This may work for judokas but if your in striking arts then this is not right.

Well there is that but if the guy is trash talking all the time and showing little respect for female students could you put up with somebody like that? Me personally, I have very little patience for people like that. Yeah there is this divide in attitudes between eastern vs western martial arts but in both situations, even if I agree/disagree with what a coach or sensei's personal views are, I wouldn't want to hear them during training. I don't pay them to preach to me so I probably wouldn't train with him. If the coaching really was miles above what anybody else could give me I might stay with him but it'd have to be really good for me to withstand the earache. That was my dilemma, even my current boxing coach who despises him has refered to his coaching as "Exceptional" and a one of the best when it comes to helping students understand and realize the importance of basic boxing and becoming the master of the basic moves in footwork and jab. Its just the womenizing attitude as well as him picking fights with anyone who resembled a guido was getting out of hand. The latter didnt bother me, in my twisted ways I rationalez his guido hate but him hitting on chicks while being in his 40s was very very Disturbing to me...

Not really, sparring is great for self-control and controling the situation, if your looking at it in terms of "I am in danger, time for berserker mode Then two things will happen in a self-defense situation: 1.You lose control due to rage and end up looking like some type of animal or blood thirsty thug among witnesses. 2.You will lose your balance due to becoming hotheaded and your motor-skills will go down in ground. But if you learn sparring you will learn the following: Taking a hit Learning to counter Maintaining a proper balance on uneven surfaces. Understanding the rythem of back and forth. Having mental clarity Finding order out of chaos or finding the light in the darkness Sparring is the heart of martial art, if people want to take up a hobbie in martial arts but dont want to spar then...its time for a new hobbie otherwise we are just downgrading the quality of martial arts and giving birth to mcdojos. There is a reason why kyokushin karate is one of the most respected styles of karate despite being newer style of karate. It has a no-nonsense attitude and its the type of karate style/oganization that upholds its reputation by providing quality teaching instead of quantity students.

I am wondering if anyone of you guys have come across an instructor like that??? I had a boxing coach like that in the beginning who rented space in an mma gym, he was very good at teaching boxing and himself was in an AMAZING shape for his age and he did spar with us and made sure not to hurt students in sparring. All and all he was a good coach when it came to teaching the art of boxing and as student-teacher he was very polite towards us. But aside from that...Hitting on female students, calling mma guys bagget with an F,cursing nonestop, That and him picking fights with people outside of training and saying if your breaking someones jaws,ribs and orbital then your doing it right... I left the guy because I found another great coach, but what I am wondering is, would you put up with a guy who has exceptional talent to teach,spar and turn people with low talent to pretty good boxers but with this type of thug attitude??? I hate to say it but, if I never have found my current coach there would be a chance I would probably have stayed with him since he really is a good coach!

Martial Arts in general is rough on the human body.I'm not a fan of negating foundational basics. Sure, it's boring, but important enough to bust out every class. It's also surprising how much farther you can go in a shorter period of time because of basics. I learned this the hardway, my first boxing coach bragged about unknown Techniques. Which basicly consist of some fancy modified version of ali shuffle and other stuff When I met my current coach, I had to restart from the beginning, learning pivots,lateral movements,jabbing from every direction and the secret...Repeat it a million times for 2 and a half hours a day and ofcourse running stairs and hills. It maybe boring but to truly understand it, I think sometimes you need the injury and bad coaching to later understand fundemental training!

I am a bit confused!?? Do martial arts school, negate foundation excercises and training due to it being considered boring among the popular demographic of students?? Ever since I restarted my boxing training from the very beginning, I found out that I lacked a good solid jab and proper footwork. Once I learned that, there was no more me clashing and getting shoulder checked by local brawlers, thus eleminating getting headbutted,hyperextending rotator cuffs.... When I cross trained in traditional martial arts hand conditioning my wrist improved and I didnt hurt my wrist in boxing that much again... I wonder if perhaps you guys who practice judo/kyokushin can benefit from yoga,ballet and boxing. Because it sounds like the nature of judo/kyokushin is a bit too rough for the human body.

Is it lack of flexibility and balance that comes with the old age? What I mean by that is, if a practioner of martial arts did a solid stretching in morning and nightime each and everyday and did his martial arts however week he/she does, would they become exempt from injuries due to the fact that the are not stretching and taking a better care of there foundation? Lots of athletes/practioners that practice some form of stretching,balancing seem to avoid these problems since there bodies are looser and not as stiff. I feel like the majority of martial artist and athletes do not stretch... Ofcourse my take is that, not stretching=bad diet, its evantualy gonna catch up with you it seems. Would you say that assesment is accurate?

I have heard bill wallace was a judo/wrestler until he injured one of his knees and went to become a full contact karate/pka kickboxer. As a guy who boxes, I know that 80 percent of the coaches in my town are garbage since they have the whole jock "winning is everything attitude"that and teaching there boxers pitter patter punches for scoring points in the amatures and neglecting other defensive manuevers. I suppose this is also rampant among judokas,wrestlers and tkd guys. Except tkd seems like less taxing on the joints and nervous sytem... I never knew kyokushin had knee problems. GRRRRRRRR all these injuries seem like there from the need to compete and push your body to the breaking point...

I have noticed something disturbing about judo. You see I have studied/observed all sort of martial arts from boxing,kyokushin karate,kungfu as well as mma type martial arts. But lately I have been giving a judoka friend of mine ride to his judo place. Long story short, when I sit out in these classes, I have noticed that almost all the instructors suffer from either: 1.Shoulder Injuries 2.Knee Injuries The thing that botherd me is, they have a hard time doing push ups since they say there shoulder clicks and lots of them have had shoulder injuries or bad knees. Is the reality of judo? Is judo techniques really this bad for your body? Im not trying to be disrespectful to all you judokas but I need to know whats going on in here???

Ninjutsu has competions?

I dont see this as anything tragic, the ninja culture did get its fair share of recognation and as a martial artist, I admire the mastery of there body and the physcial prowess they posses. I have done some excercise and stances of the ninjitsu/tai jutsu and it helped me be more agile and improved my out-boxing/counter punching when it came to boxing. That being said, I dont really care for the violent and sneaky nature of the ninja but they have AMAZING physical abilities!

Solid - three words = George St Pierre Isnt he a Wrestler? Anyway, thank you so much guys for the reply, what I am going to do is, talk to the karate instructor to see what kind of instructor he is, idealy, I am not going to change my boxing stance, the chi kung/kung fu is more so a conditioning regimen then an actual combat delivery system like a muay thai/boxing. I am a bliever in specializing in a martial arts, mine is boxing and at the end of the day, no matter which martial art I learn on the side, it has to be delivered within my boxing mechanic. So far I have learned through kung fu that, lots of boxers/combat fighters get injured because they have strong fast twitch muscles but weak hand conditioning that is unable to protect them from there own fast twitch muscles they gain through athletic training, ofcourse they neglect the traditional martial arts hand conditioning. With me, I have had crappy punching power, so the iron palm that I learned has helped my hands feeling less brittle after a spar or any friction from hitting the bag. But most importantly my accuracy has increased through the kung fu training due to one legged squats,performing various postures thats helping my form and body mechanics perform a more stable boxing techniques. Perhaps Im just getting greedy here, I think I should just stick with kungfu and the days that there are no kung fu I can just drill the hell out the forms,iron palms and other excercises from strong man world...

To be honest, I know two grappling places, one is expensive with long contract, the other one is known for ppl getting injured and not having clean mats. With kung fu and karate, I am more interested in the benefits of the physical excercises they offer thats not in boxing. For example, the balancing excecises as well shifting weight/stretching in the kungfu/chi kung is not explored deeply in my boxing gyms. In the karate place, kyokushin to be exact, I find there hard body conditioning can be beneficial when it comes to infighting/getting swarmed in boxing. But yeah I just wanted to know that its not taboo or wrong to be doing kung fu and karate due to cultural clash and the old thinking of older instructors!

So in the chinese martial arts circle. Its said that many martial artist practice different styles of kung fu " to compliment" there main style of kung fu that they specialize in. Such as,push hands, xing li,hung gar, various animal styles,wing chung,chin na and etc... Now with that being said, Karate came from kung fu and assuming most of us are from canada/america or the UK means that we just got to deal with what we have which brings me to this question. Is it acceptable to practice one style of kung fu and one style of karate at the same time on the side to compliment my boxing OR would this be a conflict of interest? My situation is this, I made decent money from work which I am laid off, I live with parents and after 5:30 I go to boxing 4 to 5 times a week. So basicly this leaves morning/noon free. I have been doing chi kung on tuesday/thursday morning and on noon of monday/wedsnday I have access to Karate. (All 3 disciplines are super inexpensive and contract free on all) Now with that being said, should I inform the kung fu/chi kung instructor about the karate situation out of respect for both culture or am I making a big deal out of it? My boxing coach said its ok as long as I dont end up square up like a kickboxer. But want to make sure if I should explain to kung fu/tai chi guy about my interest in karate?

I would like to add to that as a guy who is a student of chinese martial arts and has stdudied judo, I would say that shuia jaio and judo are kind of like a long lost brothers as are chin-na is to Aikido. Aside from boxing, when Im practicing various forms of chinese martial arts, it amazes me how similar shuai jaio is to judo and my sifu said that despite cultural difference as well as the way you intiate the moves, the end result of both the arts are to perform a "throw" and that the human body can twist,bend so many way. So inconclusion two different masters from two different culture from two different parts of the world can come up with the same technique based on the limitation of the human anatomy.

Basicly the modern mma is actualy a sport and NOT a fighting style. However if you want to go back before it was popular among the pop culture, then mma was in essence and I quote: "The Deadly art of Shootfighting" This style was popularized in the western world by Ken Shamrock, although the person who coined the term was bart vale. Ofcourse bart was a shady guy BUT if you fought mma back then, you had to be tough and crazy due to no rules and the dangerous reputation it had as well as having to deal with being labled a thug and low life and not a martial artist/sportsman. Now shootfighting itself, is a combination of japanese kickboxing and catch wrestling which originated in japan, in the japanes often times catch wrestlers also happend to be in the pro wrestling circuts and every now and then they did a "shoot match" meaning a real fight. This explains that the term "shoot" isnt about shooting for a takedown but rather a "Real pro wrestling match" Which in a ironic twist mma is popular because of the wwe touch the zuffa company adds to its ufc promotions. Also to add Bart Vale was also a karate man by origin

The better talent pool the combat sport/org has the more legit the word "World champion" is. Simple as that to be honest, it really comes down to the talent pool and the level of athletes and how evolved they are in there technqiue and how good is the filtering process

In my style which is boxing, footwork is BY FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR the most importent aspect and a MUST to be a great fighter, all the greats like ,tyson, roy jones,mayweather,pernell witaker... had great footwork. But I am curios since this is a martial arts forum what does footwork mean to you and your instructor???

I am looking for training partners to learn kickboxing and in return I will teach them the boxing and boxing foundation The reason I want to do this is to save money and not waste time with terrible kickboxing gyms around. I am wondering how you guys find training partners outside your gym or dojo to practice and learn with????

I was looking in the web and I found this guy advetising unrealistic self defense that can get you killed!!! http://www.closecombattraining.com/

In the mob world when someone joins the mafia they go from associate to made man/soldier after paying there dues and making there bones. Now this is obviously a fun non-serious thread. I want to know what does it mean being a black belt??? Does it make you special? Confident, responsible and how much mental value is there in having the title of being a black belt??? Also what are things in life that can make people feel like a black belt and how rare are there??? Like becoming CEO or getting an amazing job or stumbeling in to a gold mine after digging for many years. This is kind of a mental thing I thought I should ask the traditional martial artist and karate guys to get your opinion in it

What reasons do they give? If it's that MMA is "dangerous," then boxing would have to be outlawed. If they say it's not "really" a martial art, or that it lacks values, they have every right to their opinion, but the consumer has a right to choose whether or not to study it. Do they admit they have a vested interest in keeping out popular competition? l won't say that there aren't those who dislike MMA for non-economic reasons, but the loudest protestors may well be financially motivated. The main reason is that mma is the new thing and no one wants train tma half tma schools protest mma other half say 50% tkd 50% karate and they call there martial arts "MMA" because of it. So there are tma schools threatend by the mma others are jumping in the bandwagon

Im not sure about training books or videos but make sure you go to a raw boxing gym thats where they teach you the real stuff!!!! BE WARNED!!!! Although the prices are cheap ( like 50 dollars a year or so) There is lots of gang bangers and shady characters the good thing is once you do good against them in sparring they will become friendly to you like brothers but make sure you keep them on acquainted level and not get involve with them on a personal/social level just be nice respectful and let them do there thing outside of boxing and make sure they don't bring any of that gang violence in the gym. Keep it professional and your all good

I was reading a newspaper about mma fighting and trying to make it sanction in Vancouver Canada and there is a group of traditional martial artist that are trying to keep it out of town and are against it. However with the same token there are some martial artist that enjoy it and feel that is very good common ground to test ones ability in the line of fire. I personally am torn in to two sides. I have met many type of mma fans mostly ignorant and seem impatient and others are very nice respectful and open minded. Oh and check ignorant in the sherdog forum an mma community I see mma as a sport and NOT!!! a fighting style so it really really bugs me when people mma is better then boxing which is crap. The thing I learned in boxing is that fighting is CHAOS and you need a fighting style to keep you in there without turning it in to a chaotic mess. There are Great Artist in the mma known as Karo Parisyan ( judo master) Anderson Silva (striking god) and machida ( an undefeated karate ace) For me these guys give me hope but the ones that half-gassed everything and just look like GARBAGE standing and on the ground are the ones that martial arts warns people when they say have patient and learn correctly and etc... So share your thoughts on the mma I am sure this topic has been done but I am a new guy so forgive me if its redundant and feel free to post an archive if no one doesn't want to talk about

I have been boxing for sometime and although striking wise I am primarily a boxer I am trying to incorporate some muay thai kicks and eventually karate/kungfu ( but thats a different story) anyway back to the main topic How many of you have had success combining boxing with the muay thai kicking technique. You see in boxing conventionally speaking you have your weak side forward sideways and some space open for the back leg to open up for powershots. So I am wondering how do you incorporate them kicks,knees and them elbows in there?? Do you modify it? or do you switch back and forth from a boxing sideway stance to squared up muay thai kickboxing?????