Punchdrunk

hey have you checked out the grappler vs Wing chun guy on the same site Bullshido.com? the WC guy put up $5000 as a challenge and John March showed up and nearly broke his arm in about 40 seconds. I see what you all are saying about style having an impact. I just get a little tired of the whole style superiority thing. I have seen good and bad representatives of most TMA's and established MMA schools. Great training makes anybody better but you can't make someone a fighter who doesn't have the heart or talent. And there are a few self taught MMA fighters out there who will make you tap faster than you can say OUCH!

As a middleweight definitely in K-1 Max I think I would rather see him in MMA

Check out some of the Brazilian Vale Tudo tapes from the '70's and 80's. These are the competitions that first made the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and Luta Livre grappling oriented styles so famous for their effectiveness. The only rules were no biting. Frankly, if you are close enough to bite me, I am close enough to bite you back so I don't feel you have lost that much with that rule.

jjfighter- I could see were you would think that but bad as they hurt, Iv'e never heard of passing out to a neck crank.

This stuff is very interesting, don't worry about going on too long yoriki I'm hearing things about Aikido I've never even heard hints of.

Mas Oyama studied those styles and more. The techniques heavily influenced him when founding Kyokushin but the way that students train - particularly spar - can vary significantly from those two styles. This is a gross generalization but most Kyokushin schools will emphasize much heavier contact in training than those styles.

No punches to the face. But body punching OK Kicks & knees to the face OK. No throws, grabs or ground fighting in Kyokushin - this varies greatly form knockdown style to knockdown style. Kyokushin fighters are famous for their ablility to withstand and deliver a great deal of punishment under these parameters. The late Andy Hug was an incredible example of what Kyokushin training can accomplish. Hug and his arch rival Francisco Filho achieved great things in the famous K-1 tournaments where fighters where gloves and fight under slightly modified Muay Thai rules.

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Yeah, Radok her hair is finally growing out now - but I never realized Bald could be so beautiful befroe we shot that.

I have nothing against self training. You can learn a lot on your own. BUUUUUUT!!!!! Be very careful with leg / ankle locks - one reason they aren't taught until brown belt in Brazil is that it is very difficult to feel the pressure fully before serious damage is done. Cartilage and ligaments get torn and then the pain sets in. With other areas the pain signals more clearly before the damage. That is not the case with leg locks. So please be incredibly careful.

Well since I never took a caliper to them I can't tell you what they're body fat was, specifically. These two never looked particularly heavy at walking around weight. However you give a determined "cutter" three months and it's pretty impressive what they can pull off.

This topic has come up in the gym a lot lately. Maybe we are all looking at the scale because of the holidays. We were just talking about a couple of guys we know who cut from an already solid 190-195 all the way down to 155 so they could compete at lightweight in bareknuckle karate. It didn't matter how hard their competition kicked them it didn't even slow them down.

Strangely one of the most one sided striking knockouts came when Carlson Gracie Sr. protege Vitor Belfort brutally KO'd feared striker Vanderlei Silva in under a minute with a relentless flurry of punches at UFC's Ultimate Brazil. I noticed the Sakuraba fights on your list Thai_Kick. I have to say he is one of my favorite fighters. It pains me that Pride keeps matching him up with one vicious fighter after another, usually at a substantial size disadvantage. I hope he can survive for a little while longer.

Wise Kensai. For two of the all time great striker beatdowns of grapplers - checkout Maurice Smith vs Marcos "Conan" Siveria & Igor Vocanchyn vs Francisco Bueno

You ar one baaaad MA 360.

Thanks for checking it out Kickchick. Blue collar character actors like me don't get to play parts like that too often so I'm a little excited. As for the "rendezvous" scene. It's just like you always hear. All business and frankly I'm more of a brother to my leading lady than anything else.

Good response Thai_kick

It depends on who I'm training with. From shadow sparring with much older or weaker patners to vale tudo style punching kicking grappling etc. with peers. No, I will never practice the "deadly" art of biting, eye gouging or groin kicking with full force against any of my training partners. But I sure as heck am training to be in the right position to deal them out if my life ever depends on it. Not doing those sorts of "high damage" low skill techniques in training keeps my partners intact so we can work on being more proficient at defending against being on the receiving end. If you can't punch me in the head when you have me pinned on the ground you are probably going to have a hard time poking me in the eye with an all powerful finger jab. Because smiling through some bruises or a bloody nose and saying "good session" is exactly what keeps me coming back week after week.

360, you got your stripes from Royler! Yeah, baby, I hope you are proud of yourself. You just keep raising the bar. Major kudos. I'm sure you deserved it and what a thrill.

Kensai, most of the folks from McDojo came from https://www.adcombat.com a website initially created to support the Abu Dahbi grappling tournemant. It is a fun group but pretty rowdy. A good site for MMA video clips is https://www.sherdog.com

Check out https://www.dreamingdogent.com to see the trailer of the movie I did with the Ancient One (Kim Chan) from Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, this summer. The movie is "Zen Noir". Kim Chan plays a Zen Master. I play a detective who goes to his temple to solve a murder. Kim is great, he even throws me with an o-soto-gari

Get in a horse stance. Have a partner stand up on you using your thighs for his foot stand and putting his hands on your shoulders. You can rest your hands on your knees until he gets into positon. Stay there for 3 minutes. Your legs WILL shake.

10 years old - Boxing - I got a bloody nose and dropped my sparring partner. I loved it. Judo - same age. When the instructor had shown us how to fall I couldn't figure out what he was talking about and why we kept slapping the floor. When he tried to throw me I locked my legs around his waist and wouldn't let go. I couldn't understand why I was supposed to let him throw me. I didn't go back. Looking back I realize I was pulling guard. It took me 27 years to get back to some form of Judo. Now I love practicing throws.

My sensei has a favorite set of pressure points under my jaw that make my arms go kind of numb. I can't pull it off but it works to buy him time when I have a good position in grappling. I've had a few people apply pressure points to my neck that hurt like hell and limit my movement . I wouldn't use that in a fight though because the second they let go all they have is a more pissed off version of me.

Leg-Scissors choke as a counter to a side mount headlock. I hold on to the arm so I can transition to an armbar if they escape the choke. I love the total reversal of fortune. It's like landing a one punch knockout when you are down on points.