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Kirves I agree with you for the most part. We do train full contact with proper gear of course. The training methods are key to any style. A NHB fighter is a trained fighter and more than likely with additiional training for combat would be awesome. But he is not taining for that, he is training for competition. Competition and Combat are 2 entirely different things, hence one is Sport and the other Combat. One is life and death, the other is to win. The difference is obvious and by your statements you already know that.

Most people don't have the mind for Aikido or the heart. Too much patience is required for the high art of Aikido.

I don't agree most fights end up on the ground.

It is a good idea to stay level headed, yes. But you should also learn to use your emotions as a tool when fighting. We are not robots.

Well maybe Sansooser and myself study MA's that deal with this kind of stuff and whatever your studying doesn't. It doesn't matter how unothrodox someone's fighting style is, I wait for a committed attack and then I destroy. I am 5' 10" and 240 lbs. and I can move surprisingly fast. I've been in enough "Real" fights to know how to handle myself. Sorry Bro, maybe you should study something else.

Combos are great! Especially when you can supersize it. Combos are good if you're in a fight. Combos aren't good if you're being attacked.

Just kidding, it looks like a cool training machine.

That's cool. Do they have one that hits back?

I didn't say that would equal a bad fighter. But maybe that no skill fighter has been in more real fights, and knows what works for him and has the confidence and fighting spirit that make for good fighters. No matter how you look at it, fighting is an act of aggression and if your not aggressive by nature well that one strike against you already. Experience is the greatest teacher.

Just because someone has the technical abilities and skill to fight doesn't make them a good fighter.

San Soo or Krav Maga. Both are well rounded arts.

It depends on the situation. When I get angry, I get more dirty and mean with my techniques. Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

How do you grapple with it or do takedowns?

Sounds like the no style fighter, is just a better fighter than the people that are fighting him. Take him to a local boxing gym and have him go at it with one of those guys. Sounds like a bunch a guys just messing around to me.

That would come in handy if you had to kick someone off a horse or you're fighting the jolly green giant.

Hey Goshinman can you send me a private message with that info. I would be interested in checking it out. Thanks.

That same approach is usually how real Combat MA's train. Budo Taijutsu Trains in a very similar way. Weapons and Hand to hand, go hand and hand. Ha Ha Ha I make the joke. No really, everything that you do with a sword or stick we can do with ours hand as well. The principles and body movements (Taijutsu) are the same. The only thing that changes is your distance and timing. I would like to check out a school that teaches Arnis, I'm interested in understanding it a little better.

Thanks Goshinman. I could not have said it better myself.

I think Jet Li is awesome.

I study Budo Taijutsu and we cover almost everything, I like that about it. I rather not compare it to Budo Taijutsu, because I never studied Judo. We have many techniques that are very Judo like, or Judo has techniques that are very Budo Taijutsu like. We simply have more techniques and we cover a lot of weapons and certain philosophies about fighting. Judo can be used for self defense and it was designed for that purpose, but now a lot of Judo is Olympic Judo and is different from the old Judo. Kodokan Judo in it's true form is very effective in a one on one situation, and was derived from the Budo arts. Read this article on Judo, it's very interesting. http://judo1.net/ju01002.htm

I go 3 times a week 3 hours each. So 9 hours total a week.

TJS you are convinced that other MA's are not as effective as BJJ and MT. Yet from your profile you study TKD and Krav Maga. BJJ and MT may be the most successful in the ring, no one knows what's the most successful in the real world. Just know that two people fighting in a ring are very different than someone attaking you on the street. However brutal UFC fight can get, a Street Fight or Combat is much more brutal. How can you prove a Combat MA is effective unless you have a death match and weapons are allowed? You can't. So before you measure the effectiveness of all MA's based on UFC fights, study BJJ and MT and get in the ring. You might learn that certain people can fight and some can't no matter what the style. People who like to fight in competition will study MT and BJJ or San Shou, or Judo, etc. People who don't want to compete study for different reasons. MT, BJJ, whatever, if I am attacked by someone on the street it's about survival, and I personally will do anything to survive however dirty and unsportman like that may be. The thing to understand is when you fight in the ring, you fight to win. When someone attacks you on the street or in Combat, the goal is survival. Two UFC fighters are not going in there to kill eachother, that fight would look very different.

I guess most of Jimmy Woo's students were white. Why are most instructors in the US white, hmm.

Well I can only speak from the experience I had. All I can say is if you study TKD and are happy with, that's great. If you have the chance to study another MA, I encourage you. It might give you a different perspective on the MA you are studying. By the way I have one hell of a spinning hook kick because of TKD and a wicked side kick. I just think as a fighting system it is limited. Hwa Rang Do on the other hand which is where Tae Kwon Do came from is fierce and very effective. Read this: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Stadium/6404/hist.html

I personally don't underestimate it. I think Judo is pretty cool.