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^^^ I wonder how many of his contemporaries were as well read Bruce Lee with the internet would have been president

My opinion is that Trav's head movement and footwork drills will at once make you very hard to hit and put you in a loaded position to throw damaging strikes, which sounds like what you're looking to do. He's a cornball but he knows his stuff

Solid advice. The tricky part is finding, growing with, and perhaps eventually outgrowing the *right* opponents.

"The Tao" is a dope book, would recommend to anyone who likes strategy or intellectualizing their problems. Nice video, well sine. These concepts have saved my brain a lot of wear and tear.

One of the things that stuck out at me in Thailand was how sharp the skills of the experienced teenage fighters was. Their techniques had a technical and aesthetic perfection that you very, very rarely see in the west. The trainers, by contrast, lacked that polish. They all clearly once had it, but through time, 300 fights, and an earned lack of serious training they just don't have that technical excellence anymore, even though they can typically teach it. What they did have was impressive fight IQ and ring savvy. In the middle of the two you have the early twenties fighter with all the sharpness of a "young" fighter but with much of the intelligence of the retired ones. They're about 8000 times better at Muay Thai than their western counterparts, and that's because they've spent around 8 years training 2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the evening, six days a week with short breaks after tough fights. That's burning the candle at both ends, and the progress really shows. There's no substitute for effort over time, and skills degrade the longer you don't train them.

I think it will grow if you keep competing under his banner. Even if it's only local ammy shows. If you keep winning, which I believe you will because that first one was a VERY rough match up for you, a buzz will be created in the area you compete in, and opportunities will start presenting themselves. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, you know. The traditional kickboxing skills you posses notwithstanding, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see you pull off some of those standing joint locks out of your bunkai vids. That kind of stuff is where the clinch in mma is headed: Shinya Aoki, Jones and less notable people have already demonstrated the potential even without a focus on the discipline. Not that I think you wanna go around trying to break peoples arms, but hey, it's a rough sport. Chicks dig casts anyway so you'd probably be doing them a favor. Anyhow, Jack Slack, Lawrence Kenshin, BJJ Scout, and like a dozen other combat sport analysts are currently attempting to take over the internet, and they're gaining ground. I think if they aren't already the most influential minds surrounding martial arts they soon will be. The analysis movement is like a renaissance in martial thought. The way it lets the lay person and casual participant understand on a deep and fundamental level how the sports work is both raising the appreciation of the sport by fans and will ultimately drive the skill level of even the best up, as they have to race to stay ahead of the filthy, educated casuals.

I went to Thailand and picked a fight a recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUuXpAf-RA I'm the one who has 99.9% reflectivity with the stadium lights.

Internal quality control of sparring in BJJ will keep good BJJ clearly seperated from some of the cheese that's already starting to pop up here and there, I think. There are cheesy fake Muay Thai schools popping up now too but you can always tell who is legit. I've read that in the feudal period Jujutsu schools, along with other martial art schools tended to be patronized by a nearby Daimyo and that was what provided true legitimacy to a school. I reckon if the Daimyo wanted decent fighters he probably didn't let his Samurai train in Ye Olde McDojo. Anyway, at the advent of early modern warfare the Dojo lost their true purpose and so assuming the Dojo still ran at all there wouldn't be that rigorous quality control anymore: you don't have any Samurai that might die if your training sucks. My point being the competitive aspect of BJJ and Muay Thai are that true purpose. As long as there is competition real martial arts will always be around, even in the midst of all the splintered nonsense.

Yeah his corner was a bit miffed with her about that.

Thanks, no I've had another, a second round submission loss, the organization that one was under are real nazis about licensing rights though. Noah's fight makes me happy every time I see it, that kick was was sooooo well timed.

As long as we're posting relics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj0rt6BoTXA I'm red. Seems like that just happened, but it's been two years already. Time really creeps up on you.

It occurred to me during editing that I don't really know how fast people read. I tried to err on the long side but still didn't get it apparently. The plan for future ones is to narrate them, we'll see how that works out. As for the music, didn't know people hated 8 bit stuff that much. Royalty free and all that. I felt like having music made the cuts seem less abrupt, and something was better than nothing. Thanks for the input.

Thought I'd try my hand at an analysis video in the same vein as Lawrence Kenshin or BJJ Scout's stuff. I dug around on my hard drive to find any footage that might share a theme so I could learn the video editing software I have, this is what I came up with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqfKnFuMfBA Let me know what you think.

+2 Impulse=mass x change in velocity. It's that change in velocity you need to be looking at. Obviously the difference in the starting and ending speed of a bullet is going to be a lot more dramatic than that of your fist, and even when multiplied by the relatively small mass of the bullet you are going to end up with a much higher impulse than any punch can provide. I think you might be getting tripped up by thinking that force is always bad for you. Our planet is constantly pushing us about with an incredible amount of force, but doesn't crush us because there is (relatively) little change in velocity at any given point.

This was very helpful, thank you.

That's really cool, the ones that use the outside foot position are similar to sukuinage. Say, if you like searching in kana, you might try using google.jp instead of .com some time. I've found some great stuff that way.

Lmao, all my lolz go to you

how can something slower and lighter hit harder? a rear cross uses most of your body weight, and travels really fast, a donkey kick uses very little body weight and travels at a slower speed, how can the donkey kick do more damage in some cases and about the same in other cases? Because the force of the impact isn't only supplied by you, it is also supplied by the person being struck. Typically back kicks are only landed or effective against someone who is moving towards you. They themselves are supplying lots of mass and velocity. Of course, any strike will be more effective when the opponent is moving into it, but it is pretty much the only way to hurt someone with a back kick, short of using a spin, or a specific and specialized kind of switch. This is easily demonstrated by back kicking a stationary heavy bag, then back kicking it again as it swings in to meet your kick. The kick has significantly more impact when the bag (our hapless opponent) swings into it. I would also like to point out that it is the rapid acceleration of tissue caused by the force that hurts people, and I think you will get a better grip on this if you learn about acceleration and vectors in general.

http://fightsgoneby.webplus.net/page16.html http://fightsgoneby.webplus.net/page14.html http://fightsgoneby.webplus.net/page15.html Those articles will take you far. Just remember what Dobringer said, "For practice is better than art, your exercise does well without the art, but the art is not much good without the exercise." Read and think but put it to the test in sparring. Edit: Remember that orthodox fighters can and will use the same things on you.

Reminded me of this: I had noticed some BJJers and catch guys have picked it up for some reason, it makes me want to face palm myself with the entire mat.

I'm sure other people did and do use bucklers differently from how I do it, but using a buckler for active defense is almost impossibly hard. Except for parrying thrusts, trying to parry with a buckler against an opponent who doesn't put everything into every strike almost always ends in getting hit anyway. Using the buckler to protect your sword hand instead, and both blocking and attacking with the sword will save you some broken fingers. Experience and the Tower Fechtbook support this http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0043824042000303683#.U6EVVJRdVjE That's a link to the specific Japanese one I was thinking of. You may also find this to be of use: http://www.bajr.org/documents/bajrbattleguide.pdf

That was cool, I've also seen that done with Japanese battlefield mass graves. But what about mortal injuries that didn't cause skeletal trauma? I believe a bunch of the skeletons they have don't have a mark on them, so they are ignoring what are probably a large percentage of arterial cuts and gut stabs. This kind of study always ignores this. One of the only reliable ways to hurt someone wearing both a mail hauberk and a coat of plates (which many of the more wealthy of the losing side were) is to get your sword up under the hauberk and drive it into their inner thigh. Femoral artery severed, exsanguination very shorty thereafter. Another common one is to simply attack the lower leg, which isn't statically protected by the shield. I imagine this is why there are so many skeletons with cut/severed shins from the Battle of Visby, as he mentioned in the article.

Well the objective was to pop the balloon on your opponent's chests. So backstabbing/facestabbing/arm/leg/butt/footstabbing didn't count. I think it said on the page that no grappling was allowed either which makes the whole thing kind of moot from a non-game perspective. At plenty of points during the exercise they turned their backs while in range to protect their balloons.

Ignoring the obvious weirdness of the rules, anyone else think it's odd all three "masters" fight lefty?

Personally, competitive experience hasn't helped control my nerves. The only way I can get a handle on it is to distract myself with video games or a book. When the fight is in a few minutes or the bell is ringing, however, I have to make myself cold, otherwise I can't work. There was this girl that was killed around these parts a while back and the circumstances were pretty messed up. I then blame the person I'm about to fight. This helps dehumanize them some so you can hurt them, and it also hardens the nerves down into something better. Still enough nerves to keep the pep in your step, but not so much that you spaz or freeze. Of course, you could use any injustice or horror you please as long as it gets you into the right mental state. I like having a few butterflies, but not a migration swarm. I like my body to feel a little electrified, primed, like when you go for a walk on a summer night. I also need to want to hurt my opponent, or else empathy gets in the way of winning. I don't know if this method will appeal to you, but if it does I hope it helps