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Anything recent by Burton Richardson is excellent. If it's ten years old, then I'd be more careful, he didn't have it all figured out yet.

Luckily, as far as fighting skills are concerned, these no-touch KOs aren't that important anyway.

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Okay, bad choice of words on my part. Trying to explain my point of view again, with more careful look at what was being said; Someone said (in the very first post) that Lee wasn't as good as Norris or Wallace. I said that according to Norris and Wallace themselves, he was as good as them. I believe them over anyone who wasn't there, anytime. You in your first post to this thread said Chuck studied under Lee. From this I got the impression you meant that Lee was better than Norris. Maybe I got it wrong but that's the impression I got from it. Thus my point about them taking turns teaching each other is that it wasn't a Master-Disciple relationship where one was better than the other. They both studied "under" each other and were often quite even a match. Lee lacked in the kicking department. Norris was one of the guys who taught him kicking skills. Norris says he learned Wing Chun trapping skills from Lee in return.

That's good. That's why I'm all for "shut up and go see for your self".

It is an okay self defence system. Just as with any system, there are areas where it's good, and some where it's not so good. Systema tries to do everything as relaxedly and naturally as possible, and I see some similarities to arts such as Bujinkan Taijutsu, Taiji, Baqua and Aikido. Not technically, but "feeling"-wise, it seems a lot like an internal art. Notice, there are several styles of Systema, it is not a single style. Most people mistakenly talk about it as if it was a single system like Krav Maga, but there are lots of Systema styles which are very distinct - Russia is a big country! There are family styles and styles of specific schools and masters. Some have compared it with Krav Maga, because of it's roots in modern military, but technically they are very different. When KM is a simple and direct fighting system, Systema has it's roots in older traditions and includes lots of stuff like breathing excercises, relaxed movement and meditative excercises and so on. Systema obviously is a more "traditional" art when compared to simple and "dirty" fighting arts like KM. Some websites: http://www.ermaa.com/ http://www.sctca.co.uk/content.html http://www.russianmartialart.com/ http://www.systemamartialart.com/ http://www.krasnodar.ru/kadochnikov/

So, his size and strength is no advantage whatsoever? What if he were half his size, had a third of his strength and was as slow and sloppy technically as he is now, would he be as good/bad as he is now? You really mean that if technique and speed remain constant, having extra strength or extra mass with which to suffocate the guy under you means nothing? Sometimes? Knows martial arts? But that means, all other things aren't staying equal! I thought the whole point was that size and strength can be an advantage all other things remaining equal.

Aha. So which muay thai kickboxer are you talking about? The one next door who started yesterday? The one who's the national champ? Which one? BTW: I have never in my life seen a kickboxer or any martial artist been beat by an individual art...

If you believe that everyone will sue everyone for all discrepancies. We don't know what Linda and his ex have to say about this to each other or what's going on behind the scenes, so this doesn't help us.

Sounds funny, but maybe it was some insurance issue? Or maybe they were fraud? Dunno. But go to a seminar and you'll get knocked. Or tried anyway.

Um, I'd also read a lot of other things. That book is commonly regarded as pure crap by people who were close to Lee, including Linda. There's a reason he's Linda's ex-husband. For what Bob Wall thinks about Lee and the accusations: click here.

I have never seen or heard any TKD stuff recommended for that range. If some people taught it, I guess there would be videos sold about it, god everything else is being sold on "now the secrets revealed" videos, and tkd being one of the most popular MA and being that there are literally thousands of tkd videos being sold, the fact that they seem to lack in this area might be a sign that tkd doesn't really focus on this range at all.

Yeah, the point is to know about the rush, so it won't mess you up. When you are in a threatening situation and you notice your hands tremble and sweat, you can feel and hear your heart beat and it may get hard to talk as if there's a lump in your throat, if you start thinking about fear "oh god, this is bad, this can get me hurt" you are surrendering to fear. But if you think "okay, now I feel it, this is my body unleashing adrenaline to turboboost my muscles, now I just have to keep myself together so I can function, I'll be alright" you have got a chance of survival. Remember, the rush boosts your energy, strength and makes you more "awake" but at the same time it lessens your fine motoric skills and gives you what is called a "pipeline vision", you only see the immediate threat. There are two things to do when you notice you are getting the rush: 1. Calm and steady your breathing - it helps calm your mind and makes sure you don't forget to breath (some do when they get frightened, that's why some people pass out when they get really scared). 2. Break the pipeline vision, start looking around, see what else is there. This means turning your head and eyes, checking out the environment. Stop staring at the threat ahead.

If Chuck and Wallace say they trained with Bruce and he was great, I choose to believe them.

BTW: I know a friend who studies European Kyusho Jitsu Tuite, which is a system based on similar stuff Dillman teaches, but has a more realistic approach to it, it has more wrestling and other aspects to it. They have mandatory "kyusho sparring" which means live sparring with the kyusho point stuff in it. But no, they don't do no-touch knock-outs in sparring nor do they claim to. They do have no-touch ko's but only as a ki focus exercise at the higher black belt levels.

in no particular order: JKD Pukulan Pentjak Silat FMA Hokutoryu Ju-jutsu BJJ Shootfighting Bujinkan/Jinenkan/Genbukan or any koryu jujutsu/aikijujutsu Ashihara karate Muay Thai Savate

No he didn't. He listed some interesting concepts to free yourself from any particular MA.

You do realize that, even while an undefeated champion, Chuck studied under Bruce? Do you realize Bruce also studied under Chuck? They were friends and took turns teaching each other. Same with the orther champs who were friends with Bruce, it wasn't that Bruce opened a school and everyone joined it, Chuck, Bob, Gene, Ji Han Jae and the rest all studied with Bruce (some more some less). All learned from each other. Yes, he was great. So were other people. He wasn't superior to everyone else. He just had new ideas, a cokky attitude and skill enough to prove his point to those who doubt him.

You can learn a lot about Bruce's skills by reading books by the people he trained with. They tell anecdotes and stories about him with great respect but think of him as "one of the pack", not some god-like above-everyone-else superman. In addition to the facts that he was a Hollywood star from HK and died young, his legend status also builds on the fact that he p*ss*d a lot of people off. He threw dear traditions and habits into the trash bin and stepped on lots of toes. He did a great service to the M.A. populus in general, because he challenged the narrow-mindedness common to that era.

All those are good. Stand facing a partner. Both grab each other, right hand grabs the opponents left sleeve under elbow/tricep and left hand grabs the chest/collar. Then alternate low shin kicks to the opponents shin kick, i.e. both kick right kick so the shins hit together, then kick left shin kick together, hitting shins together, then right and so on. Start very slow and light. Buy Marco Lala's "Destructive low kicks and knee attacks" vols 1 and 2 videos.

What about the traditional schools that only teach kobudo?

I am a security guard and get to use my skills one in a while.

Is it just me or are the martial arts people really this illiterate? It is an exercice of ki focus, not a fighting technique. Nobody, nobody is saying it is used in combat. It is like the handstand pushup: it helps you build skill and power, balance and focus, but it is not used in a fight. It is a freaking exercise, for God's sake!

http://www.ltky.lut.fi/org/hjms/index.htm

Certainly. But if that's what you keep showing people, I can't understand why you wonder how come people focus on your high kicking methods. Hapkid0ist said "Why people focus on the high kick issue is beyond me.", I say it is because that's what you show them all the time.