Wolfman08

If you wanted skin-tight I'd say say in the tub of cold water while wearing your gi. I think thats how actual emos make their clothes so tight.

Netflix has a lot of good old Martial Arts films too. You can stream alot too. Wow, hilarious typo.

That's fairly common, actually. There are plenty of exceptions (Southern Kung Fu is generally more rooted than Northern Kung Fu, with Wing Chun being a great specific example). The difference is in general mentality and culture. I'm not very familiar with Karate (having only developed in interest in Karate relatively recently), so I'll draw the example of the development of Boxing. Boxing originally was a general strike based form of fighting, compared to wrestling which was general grappling. In both styles the rules of any individual fight was agreed upon before the fight, but they tended to be relatively similar. However, there was no rules against kicking, rounds would only happen sometimes, the length and number of rounds completely random, and things like referees and judges were rare. Matches tended to end in a very bloody affair. Eventually, an agreed upon set of rules was developed, which set the length of rounds, and limited the number of rounds. It also created things like weight classes, referees and judges. One big thing that was developed in these rules: No kicking. Why? Well, in England at the time kicking was considered something the poor and ungentlemanly did, and the developer of the rules wanted Boxing to appeal to the upper classes who might be willing to pay people large sums for fighting. And so, Boxing became a punch-only style. This basic idea of culture affecting the development of Martial Arts can be seen in China (where generals encouraged sneaky maneuvering to open mano y mano conflict), Japan (where generals encouraged troops to be brave and bold in facing the enemy head on) and Korea (where the culture said that the hands should only be used for cultural acts such as painting, not for fighting). Now, none of these things are necessarily bad. The light on your feet, bounce around and don't get hit mentality is a great fighting attribute if you have the flexibility and endurance (mentally and physically for both) to pull it off, since you're less likely to be hit. In the same way, the more rooted, stand and deliver way is great too if you can take a few punches, since you're going to generate quite a bit more power in each strike. So, yes, there are differences, and these differences tend to be influenced heavily by the culture of the population at the time of the development (see: MMA), and these differences can be good or bad for the individual training.

In a fighting application it could be used (as a jab) to make an initial blow to your opponents face, because sometimes making that first strike is all you need to push your opponents off balance physically and mentally. I'm sure, actually, that if a study were to be done, in most street fights, the one who landed the first strike is the one who wins, assuming strength and training are relatively similar.

Yay! Me too! are you going into Sport Psychology?

Sorry Evergrey, by living near there, you have officially moved to the gateway to hell. However, if you're on base, you might be able to ask the local Marines if you can train with them. You might.

Well, I just wrote about a quarter of it up, and it's already over a thousand words. This might end up being submitted in a two article, because otherwise it's going to be huge. I'll try to finish it up later this week, and have someone spell check it for me.

Actually, I normally hear about doing Cardio and weights on different days altogether.

No problem. I've actually been working on breaking down different drills I do/have done/am aware of (either on my own, in class, or from research on the internet, and including weapon's training) into how they fit into the components of fitness, so this pretty well fits perfectly into my current research. Maybe I should make a post out of my research. It might help some other people. Hmmm....

Interesting article from Yahoo News.

This might diverge somewhat from what Master Pain is saying in this thread, but it seems like something he might be saying is that with the first method (where someone on the outside counts to three, and both people go) is that the major thing being trained is your ability to as quickly as possible land the first shot. I'm sure that if someone decided to sit down and tape a hundred such matches over the course of a few weeks, they would find that the person in the superior position at the end of the twenty seconds is the one who landed the first strike. However, with the second method (where you go on your number, and you know what your number is, but your opponent doesn't) it is your ability to react to an unknown strike that is mainly being developed. You don't know if you're going to be on the attacking or receiving end of an attack, which forces you to adapt very quickly to number of different possible situations. Again, I'm sure that if someone recorded a hundred or so such matches, the person in the dominate position after twenty seconds is most often going to be the person who initiated the conflict. Now, debates about whether or not this is initiative in the DnD sense or something else are for another time.

First of all, I resent the 'old RPG nerds' comment, since I am not old, and am generally resistant being called a nerd. Regardless, that's more like coming up with a way to create surprise then initiative. That sounds like a quick way to completely screw the other person. Although I guess that, yah, that would increase the realism.

You can find some plans on the internet.

After a workout, do you ever feel light headed, have an upset stomach, feel like you're going to puke or pass out? Do you know the reason? Odds are: you're dehydrated. Severely dehydrated. Exercising while severely dehydrated is what in the exercise science community is called 'extremely dangerous' or sometimes 'really stupid'. I could cite dozens upon dozens of studies showing that dehydration reduces muscle endurance, makes recovery harder, reduces memory and concentration, increases the odds of injury or accidents, and so on. Hell, if I really wanted to, I could probably find one showing that water intake increases your height. In short, yes, you should be drinking water while working out, and yes, you should be drinking water through out the day as well.

I think I said something about how I basically cannot go to the doctor. My military health care is strange, and no two people seem to agree on when I can go to the doctor and when I cannot, just that can definitely go if there is something serious.

It just seemed very strange that a (possible) hernia would seem to go away when standing up for awhile. And I cannot go to the doctor until monday at earliest. And my insurance situation is all kinds of confusing (no two people seem to agree about when I can and cannot go to the doctor)

(I'm going to try to be as polite in this as possible) So, yesterday I was studying for my Abnormal Psych class, which means that I would do a set of 5 squats and 5 deadlifts for every 10 pages out of my book I read (breaks up the monotony and all). My last set was at about 2pm, and at about 8pm the outside of my right testicle felt sore (right where the testicle connects to the rest of my body). Kind of like there was more in there then normal, if that makes sense. By about 900pm I decided to check webmd for the symptoms of a hernia. All I had was soreness, no lumps, no pain, no nausea. By 930pm there was some actual pain in my nether regions. Night of sleep later and I feel fine. Infact, there wasn't any problem until about an hour ago (530 pm), and it was general soreness. I spent most of my time today pacing in my apartment while I continued to study Psych (this time with out the squats). I finished about an hour before the pain returned. I spent that time mostly sitting. I decided I'd try to walk around to see if it helped, and my pain went away. Sitting here now, horribly uncomfortable because the soreness is back. So, is this a hernia, or something else?

I was out for about 6-8 months because of some mysterious knee problems that two years later no one can explain. Took about a month to relearn material

From the video (and the comments underneath by guys who apparently speak Russia) it seems like he's also using the hammer to explain that you get more force by hitting with the top of the hand. I gotta say: that makes me pretty nervous. Hitting the top of the hand puts alot of stress the wrist and the radius. The radius is the weaker of the two bones in the forearm, so putting alot of stress on it from (say) punching someone hard on a hard surface (like their face) could be dangerous. In the same way, punching with the bottom of your hand puts alot of stress on the wrist and the smaller (read: weaker) bones of the hand. This is why most styles teach you to punch with the middle knuckle. Both top of the hand and bottom of the hand have their advantages though. Top of the hand probably does get more power, and bottom of the hand is faster, but they need to be approached with some caution.

My advice: take baby steps back into it. After you're recovered from your surgery do a few simple strikes to the air. If that isn't a problem, do a low impact form (probably one of your first forms). If that isn't a problem, do a more high impact form (something little higher in rank). If that's fine, call your instructor and ask to just do some focus mitt work in your next class for maybe half an hour. If you're still fine, do some light sparring for 10-20 minutes. If you still don't have any problems, do some more intense sparring. If at any point in testing your limits you start to feel like you're having any problems (weak in the legs, bleeding, anything, since I'm not familiar with your condition) stop. You may be able to develop up to a point where you're able to do more intense work, but hurting yourself before you get there is entirely counter productive.

You should noticed that I said "closer". And since I've been in a few real fights, I do now that the two are not the same, but you know what's further from being like a real fight then being watched by a bunch of people? Doing the same thing while not being watched by a bunch of people. And this is real science, a proven fact. When people are watched, they do worse then if they weren't. That is the value of a test.

As I said, a test is a test because it's a test. It doesn't make you better, it looks to see how good you really are. You might be great in class when only you, your partner and your sensei/sempai are looking, but when everyone in the room is watching the heat is on. It's closer to a real situation. That's why it's done.

I'm sure alot of it has to do with stress. It's one thing to be able to do a perfect ikyo into a iriminage, and finishing with a kotegaeishi in class, it's another thing entirely to do it with a bunch of people staring at you and only you, after running laps for 6 hours yesterday.

Lateralus still works for a longer form. Well, a 9 minute 23 second form, atleast. But, since I was just forced into reading the whole OP, instead of skimming, let me look here.... Yah, I got nothing. I'm fairly ham-strung, since most of the music I listen to is kind of dark and energetic.

"Battle is not a stage for empty heroics and nor is it something to take pleasure in. Battle is filled with despair. Dark, terrifying. That is the way that it should be. That way, people learn to fear battle and to choose the path of non-violence where possible" - Izuru Kira, Bleach. Besides, if he has a long form to do, there is always Lateralus. And on that note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY