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hahahaha him or Jet Li

pride isn't worth dying for

I got punched in the throat pretty hard in a bit of a scuffle once me writing this is testament that it didn't hurt, it made me heaps paranoid and stunned because I had it in my head that being punched in the throat is the end of your life so i was like...well... and choking to death didn't happen

simpe solution if you are a martial artist don't start shit i dunno that's always been the message i've learnt you are responsible for your life and your actions - starting fights is a good way to be end up dead.

Andrew isn't that what footwork (also found in boxing) is for? creating or closing gaps for those punches and kicks? I mean OK I understand that you being someone that is far more experienced in martial arts than I am - but good footwork makes it pretty easy to close or retreat

usually 'why? do you wanna go outside and find out?' shuts people up and i'm only a green belt

yeah but in my school before the twist is blocking with the fleshy part of your arm - on bigger arms there's more fleshy part it's harder to miss and hit the bone.

find the middle of your belt, middle of the belt goes on the middle of your stomach - wrap it around you backwards so that when the two tips of the belt come to the front of you the left tip is underneath the whole belt- and the right tip is over the top of the whole belt. tighten the belt there - then get the right tip to go OVER everything then UNDER everything so it comes out the top of the doubled over belt (by doubled over i mean how the left side is under the belt so that it's almost like two belts are there) tighten once again - the next bit is the easiest bit simply tie the most simple knot you can think of with the remaining tips and tighten. (by a simple knot i mean - Left over right, then under right then pull) hope it helps

yeah but muscle mass kinda helps pad your arms when you're blocking a 6'5 human tank's punches and kicks

I disagree I was able to correct myself and others in my second belt, let alone now (i'm currently sempai) - The mental side of things I find the easy part (as i'm always thinking about karate, and always practicing karate), being able to correct and know what a technique should look and be like, my problem being a beginner and occasionally teaching is sometimes making sure I have the correct technique myself.

mine doesn't do any of that unless your in the state team then you have to do like 150 pushups, legups, crunches, lots of jogging, and a whole bunch of other stuff that makes my biceps cry

at our school we don't get paid to teach but if you are a sensei you don't have to pay for classes, i wish i was a sensei - i spend up to 35 dollars a week on training

is that the hand knife hand block in front of the nose? what do you do if they have exceptionally long fingers?

i hate those puzzle mats they feel awful gimme a wooden basketball court anyday

sparring drills are a must also as the last person said about a side kick- make sure their footwork is good and that they are working their way into you rather than charging at you footwork and movement (as someone also stated) is incredibly important. Telling people to relax and focus on speed but not sacrificing technique tends to help. I also tend to advise new to sparring people not to worry about blocking in the sense of what we practice in basics but just learn how to move your limbs to deflect stuff - that way they aren't so rigid in their blocking. Stance advice tends to help, and lateral movement - there's a few good ways of getting people to get used to lateral movement - getting someone to stand behind one of the people sparring so they can't move backwards etc. Phonebox sparring (really close range) matrix style sparring can be good for reactions as is slaps(shoulders and knees) for those that don't have equipment.

my first instructor was an orange belt he was actually a fairly alright teacher - and was personally trained from the beginning by an all styles champion. I didn't know the belt level of this sensei for a long time until after he had left. I've trained under a variety of senseis' - two second dans (one I still train under) some senseis were green belts and blue belts and one of them I swore from ability he was a 1st kyu. There definately is a difference, generally i think higher grades teach kata better, but basics is pretty much on the level between the lower grade senseis and the black belts. I find that sometimes a lower belt sensei can offer a better solution to a problem than a black belt or above just because a lower belt might have experienced something similar not so long ago, whereas with a higher belt it might have been eons ago.

I've seen lots of kids who you KNOW are there because their parents put them there not because they want to be there. The problem therein lies in the fact that they would rather be doing a million other things, so you want to captivate their interest...how? Often single them out for examples can help (as in this is how you do this technique) the sit out of the class thing could be beneficial but could also be bad - getting them to stand out in sumo stance can be effective at times, but when the kids aren't doing sumo stance properly it doesn't help much. Much of likeness when the kids are the non disciplined and the adults are the only ones doing the squat kicks properly. i'm a firm believer in positive reinforcement - but a little negative reinforcement can help toughen you up a bit (my legs are all the more tough from squat kicks etc)

it depends which night and which dojo i go to from my school one has about 6 black belts, one has no black belts, and another has 2

if your worried about direspect get in there, train hard so you can become a good martial artist and everyone will respect you for it

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i'd say from muay thai go to hapkido /tae kwondo mixture although i'm wondering why you'd need taekwondo to mix with hapkido since there are adequate kicks in hapkido

I've heard all those noises the funniest one i've ever heard was "IssSSSSSS" or one from an early coloured belt saying 'heeeyar' really really slowly caused me to lose focus and crack up. My one sounds like DIEEEE apparently

not to really criticise you valn but i was thinking 4 months in any karate style isn't really all that big when moving to another style - maybe if you'd done a year of it?

what's a makiwari? is that like a human sized punching bag?

ummm whoever said it was 90% diet - that is the biggest load of crap i've ever heard. You will get cut abdominals from a variety of things, genetics, diet is a player in it yes, how you work them out, how often you work them out, how you use your abs in your daily life (related to working them out). An example: I had a six pack at the age of 15, I had no idea how I got it at the time - but i have this weird feeling (and feel free to discount this stupid theory) that it was when I was a kid i used to always do silly stomach things like push my stomach out and pretend I was ET, and then i used to do that wave thing with my stomach ( i think these may have played some part) but the most important thing I did when I was younger was ride my bike and swim LOTS, swimming works EVERYTHING, bike riding works your abs, your back, your grip, your thighs and calfs - these two activities. They were totally cut abs, my diet wasn't very good - all I ate was what my parents fed me which was the usual red meat and veg type diet, too many sweets etc. When I was 18 I went vegetarian - (almost 4 years later) I'm now vegan. My diet is very very well balanced because I cook for myself and keep what I eat in check. I eat really healthy, loads of fruit- heaps of vegetables, etc. While my physique has changed my sixpack is almost exactly the same as I remember it, possibly a little more cut because I work out way more than I did when I was 15-20. I totally changed my diet and my sixpack changed very little. Genetics would've played a small part- but given no one else in my family has a six pack - and the builds of the people in my family are all pretty different. The most important workouts for your abs I would say are exercises where you don't go out of your way to actually do your abs but are doing other things which benefit your abs, second to this are lying on your ground doing leg ups, third being crunches, and I did alot of situps before i knew about crunches and leg ups (When i was a kid) but I don't do situps anymore because they are too easy. I'm not a dietician or a trainer but the way I eat in regards to training at home is: I eat lots of energy foods during the day (talking fruit here) then I usually have a high protein meal 30-40 mins before training (don't go too close to your training here or you'll regret it hehe), during training taking in a bit of water but not too much water (or once again your stomach will hate you), then after training I usually eat a high protein meal 40-60 mins after training, if you can't get to a high protein meal for whatever reason - make a big smoothie. I was always under the impression the pain you get the next day which I used to get before I ate this way was to do with your body needing something, I found eating this way would reduce that pain by heaps. once again I am not a dietician, what works for me might not work for you - ask a dietician/personal trainer