SevenStar

I'm not sure what they are, but I'm positive it's not muay thai. it's some other muay - could be muay chaiya, muay chaad cheurk, muay boran.... there have been ALOT of muay in thailand martial history

go to the health forum. There are several threads on there about pushup improvement. How long have you been training?

bingo.

as I said in my post, there is original jkd, jkd concepts, modern jkd, jun fan, and there are probably others as well. I suppose each could be termed a separate "lineage" However, I dunno if the originals (innosanto, poteet, etc.) were the ones who spawned these separate styles. So, perhaps within jkd, there are both lineages and incarnations...

the knees can be injured anytime something involving them is done incorrectly, from squats to horse stance. you have to watch your positioning - do not let your knees extend past your toes. This is bad alignment and places unneeded strain on the knees. Also - and this varies from style to style - is the position of the feet. Some styles advocate that the toes point forward - this causes unneeded strain on the knee. Other styles advocate that the toes oint slightly outward - this is much better on the knees.

completely agree. But if you read most of the pro speed posts on this forum and other forums around the net, you will see that many people don't seem to realize that. exactly.

yeah, I completely agree. That's what I was saying - you make the motion smaller as you progress.

I train 2 - 3 a day, 5 - 6 days per week. The first session is in the gym. I run three days and lift weights daily. On the days I train three times, I have two sessions in the gym. the first is on my lunch break and is weight training. I split my exercises into three categories - pulling muscles, pushing muscles and legs. I work my legs once per week and the other muscles twice. pulling days: cleans bicep curls (for my own personal vanity) deadlifts pullups pushing days: bench press clean and press either tricep press or skull crushers (my own personal vanity again) leg days: squats calf raises I have a periodized cycle for my weight training (if you don't know what periodization is, there are some threads on the health forum, I believe) and I do 8 - 10 sets of each movement. The first is a warmup set followed by two maximal weight sets (reps of 3-5). the remaining sets are done for reps with 20% less than the maximal weight I was using. my second session is my running sessions and is 2 - 3 miles, usually combining walking and jogging. I usually do this after work. the third session is MA related. I'm in thai boxing 3-4 nights per week, judo two nights and bjj 2-3 nights.

http://www.trainforstrength.com Also, watch your diet.

wouldn't matter. his accomplishments don't reflect anyone else's. assuming he could do that, the avg person can't.

drag'n is right on. SPARRING IS A TOOL TO BETTER YOUR ABILITY. If you go into it focused on "winning" you will never make any serious progress. The time for intent to KO someone is in the ring or the street.

how do you keep injuring it?

I disagree, we also deal with situations, in a pressure test like environment. The attacker comes in with an attack and we have to deal with it in whatever way we see fit - if the attacker is not deemed to be incapacitated they carry on attacking. There are no set rules like in sparring situations - you could indicate eye gouges, bites, spitting, groin grabs etc. you indicatae it, but cannot actually do it. If you could, your dojo would be full of blind people with busted kneecaps...if that's not the case, then you are pulling punches - not very close to reality, right? At least in full contact, i am really hitting you hard.

speed is fine, but the example with cars isn't really applicable, IMO. humans can't move at the speed of cars. Who punches faster, de la hoya or tyson? Who do you suppose hits harder? theoretically, if de la hoya punched fast enough, he could hit harder than tyson, but humans are only capable of producing so much speed. This is part of the reason why we have weight classes.

you will also overcommit yourself, making you vulnerable to various things. As you progress, you will be able to make your rotation smaller and not overcommit. Some people will never have as much power as others. Size, muscle, speed, etc. all play into it. However, you can indeed improve your punching. getting your mechanics down should be priority, and you advance from there.

bingo. kata is not like a streetfight, nor is drilling. full contact continuous sparring is the closest to it you will likely get in a school.

not give and take - give and keep giving. But when you do that, you will likely get hit. you need to be comfortable with that - accempt that it may happen. I think this is one of the benefits of contact sparring.

completely agree. Not only that, but it keeps the system in tact. If you teach me only what you like, then I take what I like from that material and only teach my preferences to my students... eventually there would be nothing left.

sure you will hold back, but during full contact, you hold back far less. When you do drills, you hold back as well. I'm not sure about that one. I think you're completely correct in saying that by sparring you will not be using more debillitating techniques, but on the same hand, who's to say what is actually debillitating? my cross to his nose may well break it. My cross to the xiphoid process may lay him out. the roundhouse to the knee may jar and strain it, etc. lethal isn't necessarily limited to breaks, gouges, etc. IMO, and since I spar, I have utmost confidence that I can throw these techniques against a fully resisting opponent, because I do it all the time. I whole heartedly agree. understandable. that's understandable as well. When dealing with the neck, I say better safe than sorry. that would bring me back to my first point though about adaptation... sweeps from the clinch that utilize head control, takedowns where you push down on the neck, but torque the arm as opposed to the neck, etc. I completely agree. I do think that some injury will happen as part of training - bruises and such - you can get those from pad drills as well - but anything in excess of that is due to something going wrong. It does happen, however. As opposed to drilling and kata? kata you can do it full power, but with zero resistance... I think that's a good point - outlook has a lot to do with it. because it was acceptable then. And if you can do that regularly, then that's a great way of getting the experience. In thailand, they don't spar, they mainly drill and do pad/bagwork - but they fight once a week. they get plenty of experience without fighting. Most people today do not get that. As I said above though, it's relied upon because that's what's availoable. how many people today fight for their lives on a regular basis? how many are involved in life or death challenge matches? Few, other than the cops, security guards, bouncers, etc.

It's only targeted at the bridge of the nose if you chose to decipher the bunkai that way - the way I do it it is actually targeted at the back of the head (GB20 for anyone into PPs) how are you getting to the back of their head? are you using the movement prior to that as like an arm drag to spin them around or something?

I'm pretty sure there are some mokers in the area. maybe there is one you can enter. check into the local boxing and muay thai clubs - they will definitely be able to help you get a fight. both fairtex and world muay thai are in san fran. check them out.

what about the way internal styles generate power vs. the way external styles do it? Is the power generation in taiji the same as it is in your karate class?

yeah, that's understandable. It's changed alot, as the competitors have changed. Now that it's actually becoming a mainstream sport, it's kind of gone from all styles competing to only people who who do thai boxing, boxing, catch, bjj, etc. as that's the formula that's been successful in these events.

that's always an option

sounds similar to where I used to train. we had jun fan classes, and on separate nights, they taught wing chun, muay thai and escrima. that's where I got my intro to thai boxing.