fireka

if i may, id like to get alittle off subject to adress something someone said here. a world regulating body for the martial arts. this would be a mistake. it sounds good at first, but hey, so does communism. the thing is if theres one body thats saying theres only one way to do things and thats not true espicially in the martial arts. if it were, than new arts could never be created and i think they can and hope they will. The fact is, even if it starts off a good, fair and just body, it will avengially grow curropt, as all governing bodies do. with the world of martial arts split in regions and small providences as it is now there is better opritunity and adversity of training, not to mention, with that formula you forget youd be leaving all those who have alternate forms of training besides schools behind. i am an open advocate for such training methods and i can tell you thats not fair. its so unfair i hate thinking about it, it makes me passionately angry. (not against you, just the idea, because at first glimpse it seems like a great idea) yes, the risk of mcdojos exist, but with one body youll just go down the path of eventually having nothing but mcdojos. we wouldnt want a one world govenment telling us what to do would we ? that power would certainly be abused. in the martial arts world, this is no diffrent.

Hi everyone, Im going to set up my first actuall fight in my martial arts careear. its going to be a private exhibition, prize most likely being glory. i am researching however what rules i should go by. k-1 is a little over the top on both extrems, i was considering going by ISKA rules. what do you guys think i should do? any other rule settings would be great to hear about.

"swarmer?" i dont remebr this, and im such a big fan that my room is practically a Rocky Shrine. The only thing i remeber rocky being called is a south paul, and i can define that for you. which one did they call him a "swarmer"?

thanks! ill check in to it, that sounds useful!

no. i already considered that, but corupting my body isnt what rea would want. what was it she said? i needed to start fighting for myself, not for others. she said that i needed to begin fighting for myself. ha! what other way can that be descibed? but she dosent understand, i cant fight without that comfort. i need to be loved for my art to be any good, i guess thats why im discussing this at a martial arts forum. i cant fight without rea, without knowing shes there, her love powered every punch, every kick. Chi Yow Long of the shoalin temple once wrote, as has been repeated many times by many sorces fictional and non. 'The martial artist can be defined as one who has emmotions beyond that of a normal citizen. these emmotions can not be descibed in words, and therefore the martial artist must demonstrate these emmotions with his fist!' but so long as my fist reflect sorrow i will always be defeated! fireka? ha! theres no fire left in me. so what now? i guess this is the question im trying to force out of all of you, trained martial artist with an experince in life as well as forms. do i pursue the thing that works? do i try and win rea back, and with her my power as a martial artist? or do i try and find something else to fight for, and how do i know that will not be in veign? DARNIT! only two months! i was just aloud enough time to really start to love her. i hate being a ronnin, i need to fight, win or loose, it will focus my mind, just wish i had my sparring gloves. ah whats the point...

darnit! ive heard these thing the last time i was hurt, nut that dosent even compare with now. i just dont understand what THE POINT IN ALL THIS IS!!!! say i recover, what if i find someone new! whats the point? when dose it END! when can i fall in love and stay with someone, i just want to love i have so much to give! why is that wrong! if you had asked me what the perfect girl for me would be like, i would have described rea very closely. i just want these questions answered, im sorry logic is all i have left.

god it dosent matter! its still driving me crazy, all day today i keep thinking about it, i miss her so much! i want to talk to her so bad. we were both crying before we hung up that phone. the fact that theres a small chance we could go out again someday, im not sure if its helping or hurting. my best friends approach right now is that we will and shes doing everything to make that happen. maybe shes right, or dead wrong, my mind is to clouded to know the diffrence its like im not even alive anymore, yet i still wish i was dead. I surrendered really quickly, i wanted to love her so bad, i still do. how can i continue to distance myself. today i came back to my home school from the technical center and felt my legs drifting to the place upstairs were i would wait for her 7th period class to end so i could see her. i walked right by it, didnt even look at it, but it became such a habit, such a need, i couldnt completely break it. it made me sad just that i didnt get to see her face today. how can i keep going if i cant see her at all?!? my parents arnt helping, they keep asking questions i keep telling them i dont want to answer. Now there not going to let my friends in the next county (they go to tech center with me) over on spring break. Is it wrong what my friend is saying, can i ever pursue her again? i need her, i know it sounds lke foolish words coming from a broken heart, and maybe they are but i cant survive if i cant even just talk to her.

i know this sounds dumb, with a war and everything going on, but for those who read my post 'instructor problem' im in a lot of pain. that girlfriend i said i loved so much has broken up with me. not about that problem, but it really hurts, and you might say it has to do with iraq, i really want to talk to a martial artist, they are my people and i am most comfrable with them, if one would lesson. please! it hurts so bad! its an actuall physical pain! i never dreamed it would feel like this!

theys not abad idea saifights, except im kinda planning on putting this in my room upstairs. i have seen that done though. i was thinking more along the lines of something a bit smaller, like maybe somesort of pole rapped in a kind of foam. or maybe a canvas filled with something and a base. i dont know. the thing on rocky kinda looked like a mattress leaned against a wall (dont know if my parents would aprove) i alos saw a stegall movie called hard to kill were he put a board in the ground, wrapped some rope around it a punched the bajezzas out of it, again though i need this in my room.

i looked at the century catalog at some training equipment, then at the price tags and did this: way out of range, i mean, i could afford the stuff i need eventually, but at that price, i dont think id want to, id have to sacrifice everything else (i work part time at a Taco Bell for petes sacke!) then i got one of thiese: which led me to this question. anyone know a way, a book or a web site to tell me how to make some of the equipment my self? what i really need is something to work as a free standing punching back. anyone seen the movie 'ROCKY'? as i recall he had a unique way of punch training in his apartment, how did he do it? (im not talking about the meat thing)

lo, yes she is a very powerful martial artist and i would be hard prest at this point to match her in battle. i like the idea of having Brittany train under her as well, but i can see were it would cause just more chaos. but thanks for the help. im thinking of using the tuxedo thing (mostly cause it was funny) and also i think ill at least have my girlfriend come to some sessions and definitley the test for 'Moral support' i honestly need that anyways.

tell em' ryu! i support you one hundred percent and am a strong advocate of self training.

lol! i figured we'd drive you to make this post eventually! Rich i guess its just an individual thing. but i find one, that in fitness, my body is better trained through kata than weights, though i do both. Secondly, heck yea its fun! thats obvious. and i guess in sport, its still just a matter of taste. i mean, i like watching sparring, its cool to me, and i like performing it even better. i guess some like baseball, some like football, and i like karate. But i do it for self preservation to, i think its the best sport for that very reason, it can be aplied to so many things.

hi all, I am a student of shotokan karate and have been testing and getting belts under a private instructor who leaves across the street from me. Shes a great martial artist, and im learning a lot but now there is a problem. i think she is attracted to me and i am in love with my girlfriend and im afraid she might be complicating things latter. a friend of my mom came by and asked how long we had been dating and that she was so excited about going with me to the prom. i most certainly didnt ask out my instructor, nor did i ask her to prom. i cant guarentee she started this rumor, it may have just been encoured when i was going to in from her house by nosey neighbors. (i was in a gi! what did they think i was doing?!?!?!) i need a way to get this to stop with out confusion, without lossing my sensai, and without losing a good friend to hurt feelings. I thought about maybe trying to set her up with someone, what do you think? thanx!

im with hobz on this one, if you wanna see if howard stern has eraned his brown belt than challange him to a sparr.

okay, yea, umm, about that, you see, what were doing now?....yea, thats not cheerleading, nah-ah, nope, no, thats actually more like critisising. yea. nice shot though, good effort, good effort uhh, cheerleading is actually a bit more...how can i put this...POSITIVE! I already know everything people think is bad about shotokan thats not why i started this thread!

but rich i think thats exacttly the point we are trying to make, some of us dont belive sports karate is all that diffrent. youve made some important points about enviroment and rules in some other topics, and yes, i to think there are diffrences that need to be observed, but to say that one learns no street skill from a tournment is silly. also, i do not understand why you keep caping your MARTIAL art when saying that your dealing strictly with self deffense in these post. are you claiming that someone taking an art for fittness or competetion is not practicing the same martial art as a same level fighter who wants merely to defend himself? i must register this as foolish.

right, but when your talking karate for self deffense, its usally training in the worst case senario format. its intresting what you brought up rich, lack of rules eyes, ears, throat, groin ect. in a fight which your life was at stake one should logicaly target these. now im speaking in ignorance because ive never been in a street fight were i thought my life was in danger, but arnt these target areas fairly simple to make contact with? espicially the groin? then isnt karate training only lightly needed if your only motive for studing is self deffense as a civillian? why should grappling even become an issue, but if it does, karate covers both of these fields. however, id suggest anyone taking karate strictly for life deffense in a civillian enviroment take something a little more logical because rich is right, katas are often ignored in real senarios, for better or worse, and if thats all your intrested in, you (and forgive my lack of a better phrase) you dont need a black belt to kick someone in the balls. Fireka

darn! he beat me to it, yes Bokken, and its a whole lot of fun! there cheap, so buy one and give it a whirl! you know they also sell wooden versions of the kung-fu stlye blade and the tai-chi broad sword to.

honestly, its kinda dumb to train in a weapon for self deffense, do it for fun, tradition, and tournament. But if you did want a classic weapon for self deffense, id say either sai or tanto is your best bet. But other wise, yea, learn whatever looks groovy, its all good. BTW what non-weapon art do you study now?

i could probably find one, but if not i can give you one popular hollywood example. if youve ever seen "Crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon" Jade Fox uses it in the fight were she kills the police officer. it looks like a long skinny towel and its spirled around when held. Also in the anime world, if that helps any, Master Asia uses it as his primary weapon in 'The Mobile Fighters, G-Gundam" ill look for a pic

if thats true than everyone in osaka is pretty corny to you i understand it takes some getting used to, all cultures do, but if you research why there doing that a little bit you would probably come to appriciate it more.

yes but thats just the reason we study karate, its pretty complete. sure diffrent styles of karate focus more on diffrent aspects but you would still learn to deal with the attacks of a wrestler or Jujitsu artist if you studied carefully. the reason that last post is correct however is because in karate we form a 'blocking menatlitity' were its sdrilled into our heads that blocking is probably the most important skill you can learn. in most cases thats true, but an overhead isnt going to help against a wrestler, youll soon find he uses that arm like a handle on a used wheel barel. so technically if you adjust your self to the appoininet you should do fine against all kinds of attackers in karate.

*sigh* *smacks head on computer table in fustration* okay, sure, very sorry to interrupt. i guess my ignorance pervented my understanding.

will, Jr. he just has more spriit than sr. i think (but sr. is really good to!) and i just like wathing jr. because while his such an excellent fighter, he still has a lot of obvious room to grow and its fun to watch him learn through the years. If its best art for competetion he is talking about, im going to naturaly say SHOTOKAN KARATE since ive already started like 12 post about how wonderful i think it is *I litsen as the Muay Thai inthusesist come marching over to knock me on booty again*