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So there really is competitions male against female? I gess yes, since no one seems to argue with that, but I just have never heard so.

I don't think this is true, because not every style has forms as part of the training. Nor do I think that just because forms are part of some MA training, that it isn't necessarily the most important part. You can't train reaction, timing, or distance with forms training. These are all important attributes when it comes to self-defense. It's not true if kata doesn't belong to the style. But in those that it does, it doesn't have to be the most important part, just to be a necessity for the style to be that style. Reaction, timing and distance are things that you can't practice in kata, that's why it shouldn't be the only part of the style. Expecially, if we're talking about self-defence.

If someone is looking for a style to practice for a long time, He should enjoy doing all those ways of training that the chosen style has???

All of those. You can't fight well without control, there must be control in technique and in power. Power comes from the technique.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here -- with its gift of energy and heightened awarness -- so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. -Enrico Fermi We hold in our hands the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.

I think, on this video, karate is lost. The kata (if that's what it is supposed to be?) loses its meaning.

We have: white, orange, orange, blue, blue, yellow, yellow, green, green, brown, brown and black belts to 9th.

I tell if it has been asked. Rather not, because a lot of people seem to have a certain image about karate. I think they have no idea what it's all about . That's why I feel like it's almost impossible to explane someone the art right, even if they really are interested .

Do you know all of the bunkais in the katas that you're practicing? It's very important to understand what you're doing and keep that in mind while you're doing it.

Great video, but not that good.. Why would it be the ultimate martial art? I don't know much about judo, But would like to hear what makes it so different/special from all the other martial arts?

Life is far too important thing ever to talk seriously about. -Oscar Wilde Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. -Harold Wilson He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful. -Unknown Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develope your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strenght. -Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's just an attribute. "One becomes a beginner after one thousand days of training and an expert after ten thousand days of practice." ~Mas Oyama~ “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” -Bruce Lee Not only how much, but how well, how much you are ready to give.

Nothing, I haven't noticed anything like that. But, if you start getting really annoyed with some certain style's practitioners, you start looking for arrogange and smugness every time you meet someone who does that style. Whitch might make you see the smallest pride that he/she has of his/her own style as arrogange, exaggeratedly.

In Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, they don't respect hitting so much. At least I know one school that doesn't. Does anyone know about that? Why?

And if you run, it's all you'll need. I believe it does. True, that it doesn't stop someone who is very much insane, but most of those who might attact, it propably does. And as I mentiond, if you don't have a reason to stay, what can he do (unless he has a gun or a knife), He's not gonna use that finger most likely the hand, and he can't beat you with one hand, not with that pain anyway. It's one way of torture people too...

-Jinenkan Jissen Kobudo -Sin moo hapkido -Jujutsu

In kyokushin: -We bow when entering and leaving the dojo(?), at the door, the same with the mats. -We line up by the ranks, when sensei/sempai comes. And bow for sosai, sempai, shomennirei etc. The same at the end of the class. -When adjusting a gi, the students turn to the opposet direction and sempai/sensei turns faceing the left corner away from the students. -We always bow for our new partner. ->and at the end.. -Never wash the belt. -If you are late, have to wait till sensei/sempai asks you to come, (have to go to 'seiza' at the outline of the tatami).

If we would forget the mental side (that would be stupid but..), I'd say it depends mostly the style, how much you train and how fast you learn. Also your physical shape affects. But mental side has at least as much to do with it as the physical side. You can do many years martial arts, no matter what style it is. No one can know what will happen if someone attacs you. As someone mentioned, the sun can catch your eye, or the ground under you may be slippy, you might have to protect someone else too. How much you can trust on the things you study? I think it does again depend how much you train and how many times you repeat the same thing. In a real situation, you are proably nervous etc. so you have to be able to do something Very familiar. Without thinking it trough.

But isn't it quite "brutal"? Depends a little how good you are and how you see the whole situation... but if you are not hmmm.. thinking clear(?) enough.. You might cause too much damage.

For us, it's told that it's wrong to yell "kiai", though some higher belts do yell pretty much something like that.. I prefer to yell just "HA", the usual.. But I'm not too comfortable to yell it eather, not yet, but I am getting there.

I didn't think everybody would agree of that.. I do though, but I have heard a lot about "sparring has nothing to do with self defence". So, do you think Multiple grappling could replace sparring? As there is some things that are Very useful to practice for self defence. Like opponent attacting behind you. And knifes come along in time..

It's always good to practice kata. Not a necessity though. But that depends of the individual's opinion...

I don't believe it, I think it's fake. It would take SOOO much power to break those, expecially with that technique..

Your spirit is the true shield.

Sport is okey! And there is a lot incommon on those two, but for me they don't go hand in hand.. They're differend.