Nevinyrral

Welcome to the forums, hope you will have as much fun here as I do.

Welcome, and have fun.

I train karate and I decided to try aikido. I only did like 10 lessons, it was fun and I learned lot of new things but I broke my arm (not during training) so I had to stop, and now I'm a bit afraid to go back to aikido. In my opinion it adds a lot to karate, and is very usefull in self defence or for kata aplications.

My proudest moment was winning gold in kumite. Although it was really low level competition I was really happy, because I was sure I will lose first round.

I am training in shotokan karate and out sensei also has kick boxing class. For me karate works well in kick boxing. Only thing I have problem with is kicking with my shin, I cant get the distance right.

I started kung fu and ju jitsu in middle school to get in shape and learn how to defend my self. I wasnt bullied but I did not feel safe as most of my friends were physically stronger than me. Unfortunately had to leave the style due to lack of time. Later when I wanted to get back the dojo was closed due to lack of students. So I decided to go to karate. First I tried calling kiokushin instructor but no one answered so I called shotokan and I'm training ever since. I also did some kick boxing and aikido but karate is just my thing. Right now my goal is to open my own school in the future.

It sound like some traditional mma. What I always wonder is if it is now even possible to create something new

I train shotokan

Judo or some full contact karate

I'd say it would be good if there were more low level mma competitions and seminars to allow karatekas to improve and test their skill

I'd say good way to get more karatekas into mma would be creating more low level mma competitions, and more seminars to train in diffrent styles .

I have about 5-10 minutes walk to where I train karate

Well I have few things I like to do in 2014: 1. I would like to get back in shape because of my broken arm I had half year break. 2. Attend some kind of seminar. 3. Be in the best 3 in some competition 4. Acquire sport trainer licence. 5. Acquire motorbike licence, and buy some bike

Happy new year to everybody. Let this year be good to everyone's training and competitions

Merry Christmas to all

Just because someone tells you an organisation is McDojo it doesn't mean all their schools are useless. It always depend on invidual teacher what will you learn.

Can't they make full contact jiu jitsu tournaments or something, so that they would do mma, but under different name and slightly different rules?

1) I was learning Gohon, Sanbon and Ippon kumite from white belt, so it might depend on your trainer. They even let me do free sparring 2) I dont know about Kakato geri, but the rest of technicues you asked for we learnt individually or in kata. It also might depend o0n trainer, school or organisation.

My favourite is Tekken's Bryan Fury. Second place would go to Minami Hiroki a character from Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru manga.

What is your favourite MA character, choose from games, cartoons, movies etc.

As it was said before try contacting organisation that gave him his belt. If you cant remember what organisation was that, try finding people that trained with your husband.

If you are under WKF shotokan, then its mostly kata or point fighting kumite. But it might be diffrent depending on tournament, also diffrent organisationns have diffrent rules. It would be best if you would ask your sensei or your friend.

I have done some kung fu, ju jutsu, karate and aikido and for me karate works best. I like that its 'simple'. Nothing better than straight punches/kicks in quite natural stances.

I love tekki shodan Really nice kata that dont need much space to perform

Beech training is fun until it gets to sparrig. Its ot nice when someone kicks sand in your eyes, and mostly its even unintentional