SevenStar

okay, now you're reaching.... you really have no way to verify that. matsumura originally trained in karate. He later trained in a shaolin system and later jigen ryu. he may not have incorporated jigen ryu into it at all - he already had a base of karate and shaolin, and there is no sword in shorin ryu. Also, note the name - shorin = shaolin and shows the chinese roots of his style. Why didn't he name it after jigen ryu? My guess would be that if his sword style did have any influence, it was minimal.

keeping him close will indeed restrict his strikes, but ideally, I'd bee looking for a sweep, upa or other technique that would end up with me being able to get back to my feet quickly, assuming that he is on top of me and is either in my guard or mounted. also, you must realize that a submission is a break, choke, etc. When he said "be careful not to get submitted", that's what he was referring to. He even typed (broken) after it to further clarify what he was saying.

cynthia's MA is great. many of the guys you see in movies today - chow yun fat, jackie chan, jet li, etc. were already big hits overseas before they made it big here. Cynthis didn't have that in her favor. When you don't have that popularity established, it can be hard to make it in MA movies. look at guys like yuen biao - most people will be like "who is that?" in this day and age, people dislike secrets in the MA... I don't think there will be a major revival of the ninja in films.

who do you train shuai chiao under? do you actually train in sc, or are you referring to the sc component in the shaolin that you do?

on moving backward - it's great, but don't move ONLY backward. My rule of thumb is not to take more than two steps backward. After that you need to be sidestepping, circling or charging. He can move forward faster than you can move back, and he will eventually catch you.

crazy monkey... you train at SBG?

as he said, judo's morote gari is a double leg. kuchiki taioshi may be viewed as a type of single leg, but you don't shoot for it. When someone attempts certain sweeps, you can use your leg to lift theirs. catch that leg in your arm and sweep them. Actually, I guess it would be more of a leg pick than a single leg. gumbi is right also. european guys are notorious for use of pickups, as are russians. I use them alot, but that's because they suit my body type.

that sounds about what I'm used to, except for the sparring intensity. two years? After one year, you should be conditioned and trained enough to have your first fight.

if that's the case, he used my idea as well - I pointed out that koppojutsu is bone breaking. For what it's worth though, I don't think ninjutsu should be used. ninjas played out in the 80s, as far as movies and such go.

you should be drilling with a partner right away. it may be about 3 months or so before you spar, though. But that depends - different instructors run their class different ways. you just want to be sure that you will do some drilling and sparring, and not just bag and pad work. if after a few classes you haven't done any partner drills or haven't seen anyone else do any, I'd question him about it.

is it american kickboxing, muay thai, or more of a cardio kickboxing?

the japanese styles of karate uyou see today are the result of their interaction with okinawan martial arts. AFAIK, the okinawan arts remained fairly pure. The japanese created their own systems based on what they learned in full or part from the okinawan styles.

if you sunk into a low stance and they couldn't move you, I question your opponents. you are very susceptible to sweeps and takedowns when you are wide like that. being low aids in preventing throws, not sweeps. It also limits mobility. I don't say stances are useless, but that low satances aren't for fighting - they are for training. Look at it this way - if you can kick high, you can easily kick low. But, just because you can kick low, that doesn't necessarily mean you can kick high. The same applies to stances. If I can move low, I can easily move high. IMO, that's an inefficient method, however. stances are not meant to be static - they are used in transition to the various techniques you are throwing. They are also used as stance disruptions. To fight from a low stance and try to be immovable is IMO misunderstanding the point of stances.

jujutsu had virtually no influence on karate, as far as I know. wado is one of the few ryu that have such an influence.

I was never a big MK fan, although I did play it. My youth was shaped by street fighter. Adon and Sagat were my original insiprations for wanting to train MT, as I was training other things at the time.

Nah, I disagree with that. In mma, people are playing their game. the ones you see fighting for submissions on the ground are the grapplers - or the strikers that are very good at grappling - silva, coleman, the gracies, minotauro, etc. The ones that are striking are the ones good at striking - silva, cro cop, liddell, etc. The difference is that the strikers cross train now. Look at liddell- it's almost impossible to take him down, because he cross trains and is excellent at defending takedowns. You HAVE to strike with him. Grappling has ALWAYS been higly technical. Royce was highly techniqcal at it in UFC 1. What changed is that over time people have begun to cross train. Consequently, it's harder to get some people down now. Once they are down, they know how to grapple as well, so you can't easily dominate them. It's all about cross training.

there are alot of schools that don't put alot of empahsis on groudwork. It's definitely there, but not always emphasized. You can see this at any shiai - as soon as they go to the ground, the person on bottom will turtle up if he's on his side or stomach, and he'll just sit there till the ref stands them back up. I think this is natural, since judoka will be broken up on the ground after about 10 seconds or so if no progression is being made toward a pin or submission.

if that is what he's saying, then I agree as well. Nah, I'm not missing the point, you just haven't seen the quotes I'm talking about. There are people on this forum and others. they tend to say "the grappling is in the system if you look for it." They are referring to trying to apply standing locks on the ground - many of them don't directly apply, and they are going through trial and error trying to figure out something that a grappler could've told them right off the bat. agreed. maybe. I've noticed that when people teach themselves, they sometimes do so badly. When I was training longfist, we took that approach. My friend and I had a copy of the fighter's notebook and would compare it to what we were doing in class - we could school all of them just based on corrections we were getting from the book. That became more apparent once I started bjj and judo. Basically, they taught themselves bad basics. application does the same thing. I show you, you apply it repeatedly in various situations. Once the prinicple is ingrained, you will be able to work it spontaneously. traditional arts take longer to master by design...partially because they are designed to work the way you described. that's where more advanced drilling and also sparring come into play. what I say is nothing is more humbling than a good butt kicking - regardless of style. I completely agree that it should be expanded to any good practitioner of any system.

while that's true, soy/plant protein sources are considered of lower quality because they are incomplete - they are deficient in one or several amino acids, affecting their digestibility among other things. They must be combined in order to complete the chains. Meat sources are complete and are thus more easily absorbed by the body. I love the blandness, but hate thexture. I eat it on occasion anyway though, like in miso soup and soba.

the throat is way too small of a target. If he's moving, hand are up and chin is down, the chances of you hitting it are slim. Now, if he's just standing there with his chin up, then sure. But that more often than not will not be the case.

it's not extinct - it's quite popular in the UK.

sounds like what we referred to as a scissors stance. I've also heard it called a twisted horse stance, or something like that. Isn't it named "sibu" or "xibu" ? ------------------------------------------------ Anyone knows the real name of the kick "Dragon in the mud"? It's kinda like tornado kick but you land on the same foot that kicks. yes, that's correct. As for the tornado kick - the wushu variation is to land on the same foot that kicks - we called it a tornado kick also. I'm not sure if there's another name for it.

that depends on what you are calling "mind". If you're merely saying the body can't function without the brain, then yes. If you are saying that you can't fight without having proper instruction, then I disagree.

not necessarily. Theoretically, yes, but realistically, no. Take kata as an example. The student knows the individual techniques. Add the footwork of the kata and what happens? they step too wide, too shallow, punch out of allignment, etc. same while sparring. they know to keep their hands up, but habitually, the right hand may drop (for example) They know how to sidestep, but under the pressure of an attack, they block and stand still. Knowing how to do something and actually being able to do it are quite different and are not mutually exclusive.