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Thanks sensei8, of course your answer helps. My solution at the moment is to go to the club and watch their training and compare it to the lessons for the link. If the basics are similar, I'll start to practice the moves. If not I'll check some more tutorials.

checked the introduction of Goju-ryu from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C5%8Dj%C5%AB-ry%C5%AB What do you think, can you relate to it? welcome from my behalf

My first article about martial arts was published in a peer reviewed publication IMAS IQ http://www.instituteofmartialartsandsciences.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMAS-RJ1.pdf Article is about core strength and martial arts - what research says about it. It's not studied very much and not in randomized controlled trials, but my conclusion was that if you do your technique properly it's very likely that you will increase your core strength:-) Next article is send for a review and it's about bone strength and martial arts. Most likely will be published in the next number of IMAS IQ

I looked at some of the kumite. I still think that it's not an easy job for the referees. Also hitting that you first straighten your arm and then step inside the striking zone It's a children's game were you try to touch the other before the other does - is it called "tag"

Looks like ranking is at: http://www.wkf.net/index.php/organization/ranking/historical-ranking.html

Here is a question about home study - and it's for real. I'm planning to start learning Wing Chun, but next beginners class starts in August. I've been doing different martial arts for 40 years, but never done a Chinese hard style. (Done some Tai Chi and Qigung) Here is an basic instruction Seems fairly simple and many moves resemble something I've done. Should I start the basics on my own or wait for half a year? (I know that my BJJ home training has taught me a lot, but also make some holes in my defense - I do cool moves, but fall in elementary mistakes. I think that problem will take care of it self with more rolling/sparing). Do I start home study by following lessons on the link?

I think every body should do a yellow belt now and then. New discipline now and then would keep thinking fresh. Good luck.

Wellcome:-) I try to learn something new every year. My next discipline is Wing Chun or Wing Tsung Finland (Abronom is "WTF"). For just that reason it would be nice to learn "WTF". Seriously I did search for practical wing shun, but they stopped having classes in our town so WTF. I'll visit the class next monday.

One very accepted way to use youtube in martial arts training is to find the same technique from youtube that was taught in your class and compare the teaching. Just to understand that there might be differences - and to recall what was taught. I did that the first year of my BJJ. I have to watch my playlist again:-)

I could find the school in 61. street. I have no problem in people name their organization. Can anyone confer that he was a student of Wong Shun Leung ? On the other hand it's not relevant any more as I found out that practical wung shun school has stopped as the instructor has moved.

Hi backfromthebrink, what did you do? What belt are you wearing?

Is this as famous as it's proposed? Sifu Wan Kam Leung is one of the first students of Grandmaster Wong Shun Leung. and could name his style as practical wing chun? Does anyone know about this?

Alternative of not training is so scary I need the work out and also to fight dementia - learn new skills and be active.

Hi cheesefrysamurai, can you tell us what happened? Did you get a new belt or is it still unsolved?

I would not make a difference with a woman or a men. It's against the law. (I would not hit either, if you can avoid it.)

Yes - in sumo, it's not enough to be big - you need also muscle. It used to be enough to be big. Same development is in Judo heavy class - it's better to be big and muscular than just big. If you just want to win a fight, big is better - and muscles are great. If you compete in under 82 kg class, you'd probably like your bodyfat to be under 10 % closer to 7 - 8 % and the muscle you have should be in best places and optimal ability. Enough endurance, but ability to explode when needed. So if you have restrictions like your weight class, what would be best strength training. (My answer is multi joint movements like olympic lifts if you have the technique. Second is mimicing the moves you will need in your discipline, with moderate extra weight (5%) and keeping the intensity and third is functional movements - and in this order.) If you stretch or if you use your full range of movement every day, you do not get stiff. If you don't stretch and you use just a small range of movement in your joints, you'll loose your mobility - and you don't even need muscles for this - tendons will do it. Muscles might hinder something in extreme cases - but for a regular guy, I would not worry about it:-) One good thing about big muscles is that you can get rid of them easily, just don't use them and they will melt a way...

Would be nice to know what happened... It's been half a year or even longer.

Wouldn't this be the same in weight classes in combat sports?

I agree totally with MasterPain and JusticeZero but still I'm proposing something to think about. First gymnastics - dudes are fairly muscular but not over big? Would more muscle give an advantage? I think some kind of answer -- an exaggeration of course - can be found in runners. Again 100 meter runners are fairly muscular, 800 meter runners not so much and 10000 meter runners are skinny. So there is some kind of optimum muscle mass to move you - depending on how long you have to move. In combat sports, it might about 3 - 5 minutes? And repeating it 3 - 5 times in a tournament:-)

Please do not misunderstand this. I am not saying that bulk is bad. This is just a comment why bulk might not be the best option. First there is no question about the fact that stronger you are more ability you have to move faster. BUT the correlation of being big and being strong is not so straight forward. You don't have to have bulky muscle to be strong. And there is also a question of optimal muscle being strong for moving your body. In strength training you can build strength, muscle mass or endurance. (There is a relation with muscle mass and strength. I think it that muscle mass give you the maximum ability - bigger you muscle are the more you are able to lift, but big muscle does not mean that you have all your ability in use - you cannot max out. With smaller muscle your nervous system can be in top shape and you can max out to quite a good about. And as combat sports often needs relative strength, this can be enough or better than bulky, heavy dude.) Just an idea - I'd like to be the bulky heavy dude, with 5% fat and perfect coordination and flexibility - but ...

Ofcourse Judo needs power and strength! If it wouldn't need it, how could it develop it? "What you do, is what you get" - is the principle in physical training. OK - in the beginning, if you don't have strength, you can do techniques and randori with lower intensity. (And also learn the techniques better when you cannot muscle them.)

I guess I just need to go to tatami and work on it:-)

Ushi mata would be and tai otoshi but what is the side step?

I remember that one time was custom to wear a white belt with black stripes on the ends to show that I'm wearing a "wrong" belt. For me after a break instruction has been to wear my own belt. Think of all the old black belt... should they start wearing white just because they can't do what they use to do?

Sorry - can't understand what you mean.