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hmm, do you think that training with wrist weights increases punch speed?

540 took me forever to learn, try to do a tornado kick really fast and clean and try to make your body horizontal eventually u'll get it

What's fish hooking?

wow thats pretty good, i can do au batido, one handed front handspring, handstand, walking handstand, regular kip up with hands, tornado kick, 540 kick

Heh, how about against a nine sectional whip?

Switches? Hmmmm that's not something we see everyday, well not in American schools.

Actually not too much. It is still a fighting art - yes, we have a lot of flashy showy things, but we know that this is traditional and NOT GOOD FOR HAND TO HAND COMBAT. We still have your standard punches and kicks and animal strikes and grappling movements and Chi work. Good stuff. HOWEVER, teh other Kung Fu style I study, Wing Chun, is quite a bit more effective than Wu Shu. Most modern wushu schools focus more on the performance aspect then the combat aspect, I'm sorry to say

that was me

NHB fighting is the closest that you can get to real fighting. CAn you name something more realistic, besides actual street fighting?

Bottom line: You're school sucks. Find a new one. Any school where an instructor won't put in the effort to correct technical mistakes of their students is certainly not a good one. The anti-questioning rules even hint of a cult-like atmosphere.

No offense intended, but with your talk of "smiting zombies" I wouldn't be surprised if this were true.

WarpSpider, Until you've mastered your super healing powers of holy light, I think you should continue killing goblins and zombies. Anyways, I agree with AndrewGreen. UFC is the closest to reality you can get in a tournament. If a technique works in the UFC it will probably work against a live opponent. If a technique, doesn't work in the UFCs, then it certainly isn't effective. Think about this. If a 300 pound man wouldn't use a pretty jump-spin kick in a NHB tournament, what makes a 120 pound Tae Kwon Do girl think it will work for her?

Have you noticed that around 90% of all youth programs in Martial Arts schools are called "Little Dragons"?

welcome back, whrere were you?

he can do that in a different thread. try to keep posts relevant to the topic

Apologize, and tell your mom that you were grossly provoked and threatened at the same time.

No. Ready to admit that most of the practitioners at sport oriented schools probably don't go to this forum, and the ones that do probably wouldn't like to reply on a thread that relates to TKD bashing?

hung fut, it uses both

chung moo do and oom yung do are different names for the same thing. their leader, john c. kim, was locked in prison for five years. yes they are cultists and they use questionable methods to brainwash and drain the money out of victims

Is your style by any chance called Chung Moo Doe or Oom Yung Doe?

Paladin is a style?

Interesting. but keep in mind that your school is not normal

I think that he's left this forum.

I think he makes some good points about the environment, though he is probably wrong when he says that if Gracie got into a fight he would get killed.

read this: http://mizzoumartialarts.bizland.com/reality.chtml I thought it was interesting