Iron Arahat

Just a different section for the other thread going right now. Who feels confident that they could handle a knife attack?

There are three others from the board going check out this thread: http://www.karateforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=2856&forum=21&17 We will be taking pics.

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I actually started the thread due when Whithers asked what equipment to buy for his new school. Some people had mentioned guns for gun defense. There is a saying don't bring a "knife to a gunfight", but that doesn't mean you should leave the knife if you don't have a gun. My take on knife defence is that it is survival, not defence. Someone already said you are going to get cut. There are many officers out there that are armed that have been seriously injured or killed by a knife. They all have defence training, but to be quite honest against a trained knife fighter it is a loosing proposition. Watch "Surviving Edged Weapons" by Calibre Press a police knife survival video. It dispells many myths that are perpetuated by martial arts instruction about knife defence. The famous X-block above the head and kick to the groin is a perfect example. As for guns, defense only if your going to die anyways. Trying to beat a gun is stupid, unless your going to die anways. Remember most people holding the gun are probably more scared than you and are unlikely to use it unless scared or provoked.

I'd get the location before equipment. That way you can start expanding equipment with student needs. When I started I had me....now in 2.5 years we have a boxing ring 10 heavy bads, speed bag, double end bag, 5 sets of thaipads and belly pads, 5, kicking shields, 5 sets of focus mits, iron palm and body training equipment, as well as a matted area. I started with nothing, and never took a loan. Start with the basics, remeber your students will have to grow into your club.

Better I would take out the white in the triange between the two black, and two red as well as between the black and red, but keep the white and red border

I'm just curious who here has learned knife and gun self-defence in their classes. I am also curious when you started learning the techniques, and what they were.

Forget the rubber knives... Forget the rubber guns... Invest in good mats, and mirrors. Better to buy hanging bags over wavemasters, they break too easy, and start leaking. If you fill them with sand the stems do snap. For $$$ investment a bag will cost at times 1/2 the price and last 10 times longer. Grow with the rate of the populus of the school. Too much equipment is money that can be better spent on other things like advertising when you first open.

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These guys watched one to many UFC's and too much WWF. The guy that calls himself Ninja...pretty funny. Generally speaking they lack skill, but sadly so do alot of high ranking martial artists. If you have never sparred with with full contact, your in for a rude awakening. Mind you beating the hell out of each other isn't the best idea either in someones back yard.

Link is fixed in previous post. Yeah the Raddisson in Burnaby it's only a couple blocks from the tourney site. We are fighting saturday.

Check out this insane group of children. http://www.jasonsbackyardmixedmartialarts.com/

Were staying at the Raddison Hotel... I will be with six san shou fighters. Zack - 6 foot native guy Jed - Brush cut Glasses Justin - Big 15 year old Patrick - Chinese guy 15 Derrick - our young un.. Pictures at http://homepage.mac.com/diromj Might help track us down. _________________ http://shaolinwushu.tripod.com [ This Message was edited by: Iron Arahat on 2002-05-21 12:09 ]

I'm sorry man I don't like them... I can't really give you a reason why, other than there are too many broken lines. That takes away from the image.

We should try to get a picture together at the tourney...I pretty easy to spot...I wear a red and black tracksuit with the shao-lin charaters embroidered on the back...I will actually look if you call me "Iron"...or Jeremey if you can rember that. Blonde hair blue eyes, flat top hairstyle.

We will be there for the San Shou portion of the tournament. I will have 5 students competing in those divisions.

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Event Package can be downloaded from: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/diromj/sanshouchallenge.pdf [ This Message was edited by: Iron Arahat on 2002-05-11 19:32 ]

Happy Birthday KickChick... Let me know if you need help to stretch and keep flexible.

By the sounds of things you are kicking a hard post. You are damaging the bone, and the lumps are calcification to repair the damage. You are likelu training you shins too fast, and you may encounter some serious problems later on like stress fractures, or worse a broken leg during a fight. The other aspect if you are not using medicine in conjunction with this training there is also a problem.

I have run my own school for three years now. My best advice is have fun and teach because you love it, not for profit. As soon as money becomes the focus, you loose the people over profit. Don't become a McDojo. Good Luck.

Godd job by Mike MacDonald....sorry Dick, athough Dick had suffered an ankle injury in training and still came up with second.

Both amatuer and pro boxing have knockouts, and the focus in both can be going for the KO if you have that kind of power. Both also focus on points, just the scorring system for amatuer bouts are different. There are no changes in the techniques, or contact areas, or the amount of power thrown in pro or amatuer boxing. No real difference other than the amatuer fighters will wear equipment to protect their heads. TKO and 30 seconds to recover is fine, but in a real fight there is no time to recover as you admitted. Full contact does not permit the fighting after 30 seconds for the safety of the fighter. In my past I've seen alot of actors in pont sparring, trying to draw penalties. I'm just curious what "swinging punches" are. Point fighting is still not comparable to a real fight.

Anyone can really fight... The whole first statement was: Subject:can point fighters really fight Body:is the difference to big between point fights and real fights The answer then is yes point fighters can fight (like any other living being whether it's you, your neighbour or your grandmother), but there is a big difference between point fights and real fights. Knowing the difference between sport and reality is important. Even knowing the difference between point sparring and full contact is a big difference. I wouldn't hesitate to say that an average boxer could take out a point fighter.

Again, the original question was "is the difference to big between point fights and real fights." Think what you like but there is a big difference. Did I say NASKA champions in point fighting can't fight. No, what I said some guys are delusional to think that cause they can win a couple of tournaments that they can fight on the street. The same guy that is typically dilusional, because he feel that he is a good point fighter that he can also really fight. I'm sure some of these guys cross train, but it won't be the training in pointfighting that makes them good. Anyone can fight, trained or not. Everyone has a certain natural ability. I believe that point fighters get a false sense of security, eventually believing that they actually fight. Bretty 101 you regularly knock peple out and break their ribs, in what point fighting? Again obviously there is a big difference in ability, or there is something wrong with your opponent's fighting style. I thought a KO in most point sparring competitions was an automatic DQ. I've watched numerous point fighting matches, and what works for medal winning point fighters, would get your butt kicked in an actual fight. Again people commit themselves so much for a feeble point, they leave themselves wide open. I have seen some gus move from point sparring to full contact, but they had to change they way they trained in order to be successful. Other guys that didn't change got a beating. Same thing for those who train without head contact, real life will catch up to you sometime, and then what? Sport Tae Kwon Do another perfect example of pretty useless training for the street. While traditional TKD may be effective, training sport TKD without punches to the head, (or to the body cause it's hard to score points), does nothing but develop bad habits for a real fight. There is a good muay thai video kicking around that illustrates that, and I have a good video from the Tiger Balms that shoes showing a this as well for both a point fighter, and a tkd practitioner fighting full contact. False sense of security is a wonderful thing...