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my schedule is convenient in that if I have time to train on a day, I also have the opportunity to go to the gym and take a class. If I don't feel like training in a class I usually train alone in the dojo, or if I have a lot of time i might train alone and go to a class after. It's usually an hour of bag work with some shrimping/bridging and breakfalling worked in. if I'm away from the gym I try to find time and space to shadow box, ideally filming it to look for mistakes.

visited This thread again for ideas while shadow-boxing At my kickboxing school we're taught that generally speaking, after you punch with left you kick with right and after punching with your right you kick with your left. Is that just for beginners? I notice your combos don't follow this, and I've seen plenty online that also don't. The instructors are mostly kyokushin-based I think, or at least have their base in some form of karate. When I try to kick with one leg after punching with the same hand I only manage to do it with any power if the punch is a feint. Also, any idea how I can work combos that start with a kick into my shadow boxing? nowadays I follow my kicks through, which means that when I don't have a target I can't follow a kick up with a punch, only a spinning kick or side kick.

That increases the price for the event significantly. Are you sure hiring a lawyer is neccessary? I don't see people hiring lawyers for other sports. In the Netherlands everyone is legally required to have medical insurance. I'm not sure if this insurance is also required to extend to sports injuries. also, The sports centre certainly has insurance, if I organise this with one of the coaches that insurance should extend to the event. speaking of the coaches, maybe I should have spoken to some of them before posting here. That way I would know more specific information about organising the event in the netherlands and at the sports centre. Thanks for bringing up the issue of insurance however, I hadn't thought about it as much as I should have.

My university's student association raises more money than it knows what to do with. If neccessary we can also ask a small fee for spectators. I should check the specific prices of renting space and hiring medical professionals, but the MMA club I train at has occaisional small submission grappling tournaments (renting the dojo for a full day, medical professional present) and they don't ask any participation fees or do any fundraising. Since its a very minor tournament we wouldn't have to hire any professional referees, we could just have students referee for most rulesets. Doing so may rule out some of the harder styles of competition though.

Hi everyone, I have been considering organizing a small martial arts tournament at my university, but I am unsure how to go about it. For the ruleset I'm planning to use polls to find out which ideas are popular, but I have questions about safety and legality. In any case we will do it under the supervision of experienced instructors from the nearby sports centre, but i'd like to ask all of you for advice as well. When it comes to the legal issues (which rulesets are legal/illegal in the Netherlands), google has not been my friend. I can't find anything about illegal fighting, or about whether someone needs a particular qualification or affiliation to be allowed to host such an event. Is anyone here familiar with the legal issues of organising such an event? (not neccessarily specific to the Netherlands, general advice is helpful too!) For safety, I know we will need to hire medical professionals to give first aid if it turns out to be neccessary. I am worried about the injuries associated with full contact striking competitions. While I sometimes go pretty hard while sparring, I understand it's still a totally different game when it's competitive. When it comes to mixed striking/grappling competitions, I have an increased worry due to the smaller gloves and striking on the ground. I, and probably most other potential competitors have a healthy fear of traumatic brain injury in particular. Are three or four full contact fights likely to have any noticable consequences? Medium/light or semicontact striking are alternatives of course, I'd just like to get a better idea of the risks involved before making choices regarding this. Also, if the chosen ruleset includes throws, would it be fair/safe to expect all the competitors to take responsibility for learning to breakfall (after of course repeatedly stressing its importance). or would I need to organise a few (mandatory for competitors) sessions with an instructor to teach/evaluate it? When it comes to rulesets, would it be possible to use a modification of existing rulesets? For example, with respect to the the head injury issue we may choose to kickbox without shots to the head. Or we may want to add padding to class A USFL pankration. Or combining, say, IKF semicontact kickboxing with full submission grappling? Are rulesets further removed from existing competitons an option? For example, I like the idea of hard contact striking (and also grappling) with padding, but no strikes to the head and stoppage at a certain total of points, points for strikes only awarded when done with a lot of force (as opposed to the other point-based rulesets I've found that require a certain minimum level of contact to score a point, which all also have an upper boundary). Also, is it neccessary to get sanctions from governing organisations to host a small, non-commercial event like this?

That is pretty unusual, just coming in once to get their rank checked. I can see that someone training by themselves (maybe they can't make it to a dojo for whatever reason) might want to ask someone more qualified if they've done it right, but from what you describe he seemed to have made up his mind about doing it right, and just wanted to make it official. If a rank is also an indicator of character, and character is a grading requirement, then it makes sense that you would need to observe them for longer. I've never seen someone have their rank refused for having poor character though.

If they're a competent fighter, them starting fights is a problem regardless of what colour belt they wear. Granting someone a rank doesn't change their abilities, it merely recognises them. How is it different from someone coming in from a different school in the same style?

A rank should be a reflection of skill, not hours in the dojo. In my opinion He should get the rank that he has the level of.

the foot sweeps and steps make more sense to me than the knees and the kicks. The movement you demonstrated at the start did not show the mechanics of a kick or knee. I also liked the block to a low kick application, not enough dojos recognise this application and its importance. Though I would have used it against an inside leg kick rather than outside. I used to try to use a similar movement to avoid outside leg kicks and got knocked off balance one too many times. good video, thanks for the contribution. I'm definitely going to see if I can work some more foot sweeps into my game. I might use your video to help.

I see two problems: A: no groin guard. Even if you're sparring light, groin guards are a must. Bruised bits are no fun, and I actually know someone who had their testicle ruptured by mistake during point sparring. B: Get Payback? It was an accidental strike, and paying back something unsafe with something unsafe is simply twice as unsafe. Are you sure your sensei didn't just mean that you should best her at sparring rather than inflict pain?

huh? when? he has a famous flying front kick knockout, but I've never seen or heard of him doing a toe-kick knockout.

That would be simple enough, if it weren't for the fact that in karate I am required to kick with the foot, and required to pull my hand back. Picking and choosing isn't as simple as making a decision, the reflexes built by one training confound the reflexes built by another.

In addition to what adam said about good students sometimes emerging from bad schools, GKR is slowly improving from what I've heard. It's simply that the longer they are in an area, the more experienced karateka they accumulate, and so there are fewer of their characteristic under qualified instructors. If they stay put long enough, the only reasons to be upset with them will be their history of dishonesty. and the name. The awful name.

If you're good at preventing takedowns then good for you, and good that you're teaching it. If you don't mind me asking, how do you usually respond to a takedown attemp? (a basic double leg? a takedown from the clinch). I'm really deficient in this particular range.

please do give us a few more details about the red flags you've observed? And what organisations your dojo is involved in. That isn't a sure indicator but it can shed some light on the issue.

All grappling systems use momentum and leverage (which falls under physics). That's the whole point of training these techniques. Also, I don't think you quite understand what the tap-out represents. Tapping out means 'you could totally break my arm if you wanted to' or ' if you were to continue choking with this pressure, i'd pass out', or something else along those lines.

generating power in your punches from hip rotation...as opposed to what? I know wc has a very particular movement that allows them to produce more power than you would expect with the arm alone, but in most other styles isn't body rotation the principal generator of force in punching?

I've been doing karate for about four years now. I've been kickboxing for about six months, though due to time constraints on training I'm still embarrassingly bad at it, same for BJJ, and I've hardly progressed in shotokan since coming back from a one year break I took a year ago. The reason I'm considering dropping karate rather than kickboxing is mostly due to the locations. kickboxing is at the same place as BJJ, a ten minute walk from where I live, and I can get very frequent training very cheap. It takes longer to get to karate, even though I go by bike, and the training isn't frequent enough to fit my schedule . Out of interest, which elements (specific to shotokan karate) do you think would incorporate well into MMA? I always thought the moving aside, grabbing and removing of your opponent's guard might go well. I haven't sparred MMA in ages though.

Solid post!! Respectfully, this is not an accurate statement. That's the perceived difference due to the sport rules. But the sport is only about 10% of the art. Standing techniques to include kicks and punches are covered in the curriculum. I guess it also depends on where you train and what they focus on (whether it's more MMA, self defense, or sport BJJ).

This describes my experience very well. At my BJJ school everyone already had a background in judo before they joined, and had also been doing BJJ for at least a year. I still haven't tapped a single person from my school out in free sparring, and I've been there (if somewhat irregularly) for four months now. It seems that with grappling, when you're noob, you can really feel how noob you are. After a few lessons in striking you already have a small chance to land the occaisional fluke punch. No flukes against a more experienced grappler though. It doesn't make me want to stop training though. Quite the opposite. The skill of my training partners inspires me to train harder. I want to be able to tap people like that.

I'd say the simplest way to state the difference is that JJJ covers all ranges briefly, while BJJ covers the ground in depth.

When your opponent is moving around a lot, covering their body with their arms and elbows, kicking with the ball of the foot comes at the expense of a significant risk to your toes. Also, I find that even when this kick impacts perfectly it hurts my ankle if the kick is hard. The joint isn't made to take a large impact perpendicular to the shin. I have heard of one taekwondo guy in MMA who likes to kick with the ball of the foot to catch his opponents off guard, but it seems to be more a trick you pull out in certain situations than the default way to do the roundhouse. As savateurs have shown, similar kicking technique is useful when you have shoes on.

There are a lot of different karate competitions. Which style is the school near you? more importantly, which ruleset do they compete under?

I think that's why. They needed a popular sport and a safe one if they wanted to get it into the olympics. Hard contact isn't for everyone. I understand there are TKD schools that still spar hard and padless, though they're tough to find.

Which rules do you spar by? WKF does allow throws and takedowns nowadays, though since my dojo has a hard floor we don't (a shame, since I'd very much like to learn more about throwing). How do you spar in the more SD-oriented classes?