MAfreak

the best way to get back soon is to rest. don't experiment with painkillers, don't start to early, just have patience. otherwise you'll hurt yourself and going back to training will take much longer. in the meantime, you could search for videos of your style and analyse them.

this is a difficult but interesting topic. when you strike with the cane, what happens? does the damaged leg hurts or do you almost fall to the ground? maybe we can get ideas how to modify the common cane techniques for the balance problem of the disabled leg.

except of "wheelchair-karate" i never heard of a style for disabled people. i think its up to everyone to adapt techniques to make them work for him with his handicaps. like always (being non-flexible or chubby or small).

in hapkido they do cane training and you'll find some instructionals on youtube.

do you always have your right foot in front in sword fighting? i visited a kenjutsu kata seminar and all the time in this "southpaw" stance was very confusing to me and i wouldn't use it in a real fight. as i saw from my self study before in hapkido forms they switch sometimes to an "orthodox" stance so this seems to make more sense for right hander training. however from what i thought the sword thrust is like the difference between a jab and a cross punch, first is faster but weaker and the kenjutsu trainer said also it would be slower if one would do it from the "orthodox" stance. well it might be legit to be faster but weaker with a sharp blade but for me i'd like to keep my footwork-habits because otherwise i could be confused in a real fighting situation with or without weapons. what are your thoughts and experiences?

yeah, exactly what i meant. i had the same thing with the hook kick like you. and i just "turned it around". so for hook kick the knee shows diagonal downwards. try do do the same with the round kick. knee shows diagonal downwards, not upwards or sideways and the lower leg snaps up then and comes diagonal down to the target, exactly like its going diagonal upwards for the hook kick. this variation is called something like the downward round kick. in a nutshell: just make the hook kick backwards and you'll get a higher round kick.

i didn't read the whole thread so maybe its already said: jjj is quasi a hybrid martial art. there is all kinds of strikes and then there are takedowns/throws and grappling and in some styles also weapons. then there were taken the throws and some ground fighting out of jjj and judo was made out of it, with even more throwing variations. then there was taken the ground techniques out of judo and bjj was made out of it, with even more ground techniques.

crescent kick is for when one isn't flexible enough for round kicks. an example could be the variations of the "tornado kick": in wushu its done for show so it should be very high and they do it with a crescent kick. in taekwondo its done to hit their opponents under their tournament rules and it would be enough at waist height but since its full contact, should hit hard, and they do it as a round kick, so with more hip movement. sure the common practitioners of both arts could do the round kick very high, but i feel it that way with my limited flexibility so i hope it could give you an idea of possibilities for the crescent kick. whatever when to use which kick might also depend on the distance so directly in front of you, maybe grabbing hold on you, crescent kick could do well (but knee or shin strikes would be better here, when just comparing leg techniques).

taekwondo could be described as a karate style. most similar to shotokan karate from which it originated partially. but koreans won't like to admit it. maybe because of their past with japan.

uraken/backfist, for being similar to a hook punch, would have knockout power in a full contact fight if done not the "karate-way" (snapping/let the joint stop the technique) but trying to "go through" the target (like muay thai round kicks compared to karate/taekwondo round kicks). in real its the way stronger technique compared to a kizami zuki/jab so it should score in point fighting for being a potential knockout technique. but (karate) point fighting is that much subjective and many don't know what really works or would have power that... well, you see the answer above.

same was said of mike tyson, ken shamrock and whoever else... no one is unbeatable and such is just boasting. also from doing kata no one really learns how to fight. at least goju ruy is one of the best karate styles since it teaches ground fighting too. at the topic i'd say if the techniques were proved from whoever in what fight ever (sports or self-defense) than it doesn't matter if the specific teacher of oneself ever had a street fight.

does anyone know if hapkido uses tonfa too? i saw all kinds of weapons there, okinawan and chinese, but never the well-known tonfa, every policeman wears.

of course and no one questioned this. its more like when specific complicated techniques like above mentioned armlocks came up and were collected and teached. this is like the developing of weapons, it didn't came with instincts like striking with hands.

unfortunately also "kung fu" can't be traced back to its roots. from, lets say, before middle ages there are just myths left. there's the theory that the martial arts might be came from europe to asia, since ancient greek had olympic wrestling and boxing and the first mma called pankration. and there are, for example, old paintings of guys doing standing straight armlocks or wrist locks like known from common jujutsu illustrations.

backyard tournament, i told you.

thats what i love to do. sometimes including work on wikipedia articles. also i used to draw, especially fantasy-creatures, like a wimp. totally contrary to martial arts. an other thing would be my big love to animals. stereotypes like maists or combat sportsman/woman are dumb or rude are just stupid.

definitely a good self-defense, especially if its hot or full of hot grease.

it seems but i heard from one of my former wkf trainers, that he saw it by himself on a tournament, that someone did the ura mawashi geri to a downed opponent, but controlled like they ought to do and scored with it. he was surprised of that too.

not sure if this was intended to be an axe kick or an heel kick/ura mawashi geri, but no matter, she was out of control and almost fell while kicking. thats why she just bangs it to her head. since also an axe kick can be easily slowed down after rising the foot, especially shortly over the ground. not even in modern full contact mma, kicks to the head of a downed oppontent are allowed anymore. even less in point fighting kumite (whyle controlled it could give 3 points). although it might be accidential there should have been a warning or disqualification and a doctors stoppage to the downed girl. so this looks like a backyard tournament to me.

maybe my enunciation is bad (english as my second language). from what i saw the asian styles use classical bows where the arrow lies on the thumb. so its more difficult to aim but one can put an arrow fast on it. the "western" sports bows have kind of, well what i've postet as a picture there, i just don't find the right words in english, so i post a video of what i mean: "arrow rest" is he calling it. and since its on the opposite side of the bow it takes hell more time to load the arrow. no chance when riding a horse in a battle.

this is exaclty what i did in the video with the sword. funny thing is that when i read of katana practitioning kobudokas here i remembered my old trainer who is kobudoka too and trained in swords and wanted to ask him, in what context he learned that and read a few days ago that his club will start kenjutsu now in march. so the question is answered and i will rejoin my former club, not for karate but for kenjutsu.

you got it wrong, i mean for modern sports bows, it would take to long. not for the classical ones where you don't fit the arrow on the string and don't lay it on a curve the (modern) bow has.

thank you. nice to be here. this is one of the few forums without trash-talking by the users.

sword in kobudo? i thought, its just about converted daily farming items?

osu!