Drew

http://www.fightsgoneby.com/ Read all of Jack Slack's articles, concepts with help you more than combinations I'd wager.

Not everyone draws some kind of "honor" or generic karate morality/demeanor from their arts of war, Hawk. I train specifically to fight.

While the book can be a little fantastical, in Shotokan's Secret the author suggests that since folding fans were such a common element of day to day dress Matsumura and company may have carried tessen (that didn't fold out, basically iron cudgels) as secret weapons. Seeing as he and his pals doubled as bodyguards for the king at the time, and they weren't supposed to carry weapons (Satsuma edicts and what-not) I don't find this unlikely. There are some paintings floating around where they have folding fans stuffed in their belts.

I understand what you're saying, and I like the journey as well, but for me it's all in that sweet, sweet destination.

I don't think it's psychic energy, but my glutes and the rest of me exude power after heavy squats. Be a responsible karateka. Squat heavy. http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/Starting-Strength-Complete-Guide-m3203591.aspx

WARNING. Do not hot the striking post unless you know how. Since I'm the only karateka at work no one hits it or has tried to. Lol, thought it would be something like that, but you never know.

I'm curious, what does that note over the makiwara say?

What? DO NOT LET PEOPLE HIT YOU WITH HAMMERS! For cryin' out loud.

It can have I'll effects, yes. Sometimes organs will tear when they are impacted hard enough, and then you are likely to have internal bleeding on your hands, possibly shock, especially when the liver is involved. Muscles can be damaged too, and a serious hematoma can get infected and take you out of commission for months sometimes. It sounds like you aren't taking it that far, but I have seen first hand some world class stupidity when it comes to "conditioning." There exists around these parts a "coach" so horrible that he had new students throw inside leg kicks at each other until, the next day, their legs looked like this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ken3Rocu9gU/TnDbm1aAjdI/AAAAAAAAALI/aAk9Qy0oqGc/s1600/hematoma3.JPG I would have said something if I had been there when this was happening, as it stood I told them that that had been a horrible idea, that they shouldn't submit to dreadful coaching (advice they didn't heed), and ditched the place. Anyway, being able to get hit and keep fighting is more of a mindset than anything. Knowing to exhale if getting hit is inevitable and what it feels like helps you not lock up when it happens in a fight, but if you get nailed in the liver hard you will go down, and constantly beating yourself up isn't going to give you D&D style damage resistance. Getting bigger muscles and a healthy sheathe of fat does that. If you are frequently getting hit whilst sparring or fighting, you aren't doing it right. Hitting them without getting hit back is the objective.

That last Dojo sounds crazy, what with the Maria stuff. I would almost say they where being sarcastic or something but they seem to be taking it to far for that. It's unfortunate but racism against white people isn't really taken as seriously as others (mexican vs. black, black vs mexican, white vs either), so it's best just to avoid those situations entirely. Glad to hear you got out of there, sounds like the new place will treat you a lot better.

That may be a part of it, but many fighters end up coming back because of their finances. With scarce income compared to when they were on top, many fighters end up spending their way into the poorhouse after their initial retirement. Boxers seem particularly prone to this: Joe Louis, Ray Robinson, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, all bankrupt. Many of them ended up back in the ring far past their prime because of it.

No, I don't think they do. I believe that they're aware of the potentiality of the whole thing. I'm not sure right now, but, weren't elbow strikes banned because of the blunt trauma that they can afflict upon ones head. If not, then it might enter the minds of those who make the rules/laws of said venue's. It's sad!! Even one death, imho, is one too many! My prayers go out to his family, friends, and fans. Elbows are more likely to cut than to produce blunt force trauma. In unified MMA rules the only elbow that's banned (that I know of) is the 12-6.

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Hey guys, I know it's been a while since I've been around, but thanks for the feedback. Some things I've learned applying this idea in training in the past couple of months: During a traditional setup for this, it is sometimes better to just stand up and throw the knee, then do whatever turtle shenanigans you usually get up to, like doing that again. And again. It's lovely, try it sometime if you do jits with hits. Another thing, as some of you brought up, there can be a grip issue when throwing knees from the full position, but I've found this to be easily remedied by stacking and launching the knee at a downward angle. Great way to nail the liver, and usually opens a load of transitions. I recommend it.

Say wuuuut? George was a way better boxer during the second coming. He picked up all kinds of great tricks from "The Old Mongoose" Archie Moore and fought with more intelligence than most if not all in the division. He had the herd and press ability of the young Foreman along with improved defense and a still granite chin. Overhyped my foot.

A lot of people try to flip through it (think launching their leg over the top of their opponents head) insted of just latching onto the arm and jumping on all perpendicular-like, and letting gravity do the rest. Even the fella in the video someone just posted, despite being succesful, flung himself through it. Hard to go wrong with Aoki. Notice how he doesn't cartwheel onto his head. Even if he had launched the flying armbar and Hironaka had vanished into thin air, aoki would have fallen safely onto his upper back.

I'm failing to convey what it is I meant it seems. By 'with knees' I meant hitting them with knee strikes (in the gut) after catching them in the pin. The closest equivalent in wrestling is the near side cradle. http://wrestling.isport.com/wrestling-guides/how-to-defend-against-cradles-in-wrestling A guy at my college judo club taught it to me a couple of years ago, only he would usually catch the other leg. I know it works as a pin, to reiterate my question I wondered if anyone has ever attempted to throw knees from such a position.

I was actually refering more to an actual pinning cradle rather than the typical 3/4 turned transition type cradle.

All in the title really. Anyone ever do this, think of it, seen it done? If you have seen this somewhere, I would much appreciate a link. I think my next opponent may well get his torso turned into a ladle via repeated cradle knees if it works as well in reality as it does in my head.

I know I'm a bit late on the trigger, but congratulations Noah! The first of many!

It seems you are happy with the resolution to your situation, and I hope you follow up with charges like Kuma and others suggested. However, going back time and again when this stuff was going down was not wise. I realize your parents and possibly you put money into the place for testing, were under contract yadayada but you can't (or at least shouldn't) put a price on human dignity or safety. You were putting yourself in a clearly hostile and unsafe environment. The instructor's overt dislike of you should have set off some alarms as well. Situations where the person in charge turns a blind eye towards mistreatment of a "different" student tend to get bad fast. The general hazing that you experienced can and has turned to molestation, battery, rape, and I can think of at least one instance where the outcast was murdered. Reading back over my previous paragraph I know I may come off as a little bit extreme, but I hope you take heed anyway. Being a student of martial arts, I hope you can appreciate that the key element in self defense is avoidance. Similarly, though wanting so bad to get better at your martial art that you would endure such harassment is valiant, the better part of valor is discretion. You (and your parents for that matter) did not display discretion when choosing to return after the harassment had reached an intolerable level. Nonetheless, I am glad that you have found a new school. You seem very dedicated and your choice of what is by far the greatest starter pokemon hints at many good decisions to come.

Precisely.

You seem to be the only person who really caught on to what I meant, not to say It's anyone's fault but my own, I didn't really know how to put it. I used several poor analogies, hand fighting really had nothing to do with what I was trying to describe. No, I am talking about rolling, but starting in a position (guard, mount, side control, scarf, whatever) that is likely to occur in mma, not a contrived (i.e. from the knees) position that will not occur. I would argue that starting from the knees and all that crazy knee takedown-battle jits that goes on at jits schools wastes plenty of valuable rolling time by itself. I agree. Not quite. While that can also be an issue, I was referring more to the quality of training in a given range suffering, rather than the fighter suffering due to not getting enough training in a particular range. Ug, this is a mess. For the record, I am very specialized myself. Though I'm working on it, my striking game on the whole is dreadful, it's entirely centered around tying people up and chucking them, so that I can employ my submissions (though better grapplers have recently shown me the error in this as well). I have nothing against specialization, I think treating mma like it is a collection of sports rather than one of its own is unwise.

Shori, I think we misunderstand one another. I absolutely prefer to have coaches that are specialized in each phase of competition. What I was kind of complaining about is that many coaches seem to use their own phase's corresponding medium of competition (Muay Thai, BJJ, boxing, what have you) to train students rather than a more MMA specific setup. For example, I mentioned starting from the knees in rolling, or butt-scooting. In the context of BJJ competition, that's great. But I have never been in those positions, nor do I believe I ever will be, in the ring. It would save so much time to start from any already grounded position. Or just practicing wrestling, hand fighting is dern near impossible when a dude is throwing punches at your face. Another example is practicing stand up with Muay Thai rules. I want you to occasionally set up a take down or throw when we are sparring, just to keep me honest, you know? I'm not training for a Muay Thai match. Looking back at my previous post, I don't think I was entirely clear about exactly what was frustrating me, sorry about that. I think I have rectified it with this post.