Kirves

What's your street experience?

LOL! Those were really good!

Kirves = axe, hence the picture of a battle-axe.

Yes, I am in love with the mother of my son.

Welcome. Of course they laugh, they laugh at me too when I'm walking in the woods alone. Scary!

Hi ya there, down under!

Welcome, shoujo!

Welcome!

In my mind, the two biggest differences are: 1. Training methods: BJJ starts randori from day one, TJJ focuses on kata only for starters (often years). 2. BJJ focuses very much on ne-waza (ground work) while TJJ focuses mostly on standup + includes the traditional bujutsu weapons.

It depends on the style. Usually the Okinawan traditional styles use rather high style, high enough to be practical in a fight and in sparring. Many Japanese styles on the other hand have this "as low as possible" ideology, where you can't really fight from the stance but they believe it will strengthen your legs or whatever... (I'd rather squat with weights fro leg strength and train with the actual stances that I fight in, but that's just me) PS. Go see the new edition of Gichin Funakoshi's "Karate-jutsu" and see the photoes of him showing the stances and techniques. All this crap about going as down as possible came after him - and he even says in his autobiography that he no longer saw karate as he knew it, when he went to see karate demonstrations... PPS. Here are couple of images of Gichin Funakoshi's own stance hights: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/4770026811/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/103-7627120-8041411?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link There you see how high in traditional Okinawan karate the stances are, and there you see how high Gichin Funakoshi trained and taught them. All this "low as possible" stuff came after him.

If aesthetics (of your training outfit) are your primary concern, I suggest you find a new hobby.

Thanks for the laugh.

I tried my style against a wild rabbit, I lost. I'll have to stick to squirrels for a while.

Then only video course that I've ever seen work for real is the "Jeet Kune Do Unlimited" system of Burton Richardson, http://www.jkdunlimited.com/ The reason it works is that it demands you to spar for real, full contact, in all ranges and video tape yourself do that with partners and send the tapes for Sifu Richardson for evaluation and feedback. And you will only be given student grades via videos, you must meet Richardson personally to test for apprentice instructor's rank and above. He also suggests Thaiboxing and BJJ to complement the JKDU studies.

The Soke (inherited grandmastership) of Bujinkan Budo, Masaaki Hatsumi, was in his twenties when he begun studying the arts that make up Bujinkan.

Yes. It is an okay starting point. It'll get him in okay shape. It'll familiarize him with basics of punching, kicking, blocking and footwork. TKD is quite similar to Shotokan karate including similar "kata". So it is a good way to start.

Lower body: legs (hamstrings, quadriceps), buttocks (glutes), calves. They make the base and generate power to the hip movement. Upper body: Chest and triceps help thrust the fist forward, while the back (lats) help pull the opposing side back for additional speed in the torso rotation (if you want fast punches, you not only thrust with your right side when punching with right, but you also pull with the left so your torso's and hip's shake is more violent and powerful). You also need to retract the fist fast into defencive position or follow-up strikes, so biceps are also very important. Forearm muscles help keep the wrist and fist tight instead of breaking the form and damaging the wrist.

Oh, I was able to Google this one up: http://www.homegame.org/HG/spotlight/jcvd/ A quote from the page:

Wasn't it Knock Off or some other flick, where he found his twin brother dead on the street and then went out to find the killers? I may mistake the movie, but nevertheless, that would make it five? I have heard that he has black belt in Shotokan but haven't been able to verify it beyond an internet rumour.

Both rely on aggressive defence. I like KM more because it uses more "standard" techniques, so it is easier to mix with other arts like muay thai, jujutsu, kickboxing, karate, judo, kali and so on. Wing chun has a very distinct style that is hard to mix with many arts.

I like Dolph Lundgren and Chuck Norris.

Could've, would've, should've... It's not about what he theoretically might have done. It is what he did. Period. The buck stops there. Martial arts are in the doing, not in what might be.

His son had a very long gap in his wc training. He wasn't near the kind of mastery required to get the torch.

Here's a quick test for you Wing Chun people: Take the basic goat straddling stance. punch the basic punch (leave the arm extended). Have someone push your fist towards you, hard. I mean, let them try to push you over backwards by pushing hard and quickly to your fist. Now try it again, but this time move the fist from the centerline to the side, about the same vertical line as the shoulder of the same arm. So the fist is not in front of your chest but in front of the shoulder. Have your partner push your fist hard towards you. In the latter case you will be easily toppled backwards. There you see the base mechanism of how WC creates the power to it's punch. And how important it is to understand the proper way to punch. If you do a WC punch but with boxing type alignment, the punch is weak and easily diverted even to a point where you'll fall down. But if you do it correctly, in a way that would be wrong alignment in boxing, it is strong and can withstand a lot of resistance. Just make sure your stance is correct from ground up to your whole posture. Go on, try it!

I always get the ultimate workout in Kyokushinkai. I like the "athletic" way of training a martial art, I want to sweat a lot.