SevenStar

bjj is used quite a bit. not just in special forces, but in the military in general. Check out the arm combatives guide. In combat, you will be using guns - that's where the majority of their training time is spent - shoot, formations, training missions, etc. hand to hand helps to instill agressiveness, which is a must in combat. That's the primary purpose of h2h training.

the seven immortals is a different legend of how it began - there were seven immortals, each of whom specialized in a particular technique. It's been so long since I read the article (i've got an issue of kung fu illustrated from '86 that has a write up about it), but I'm sure you can find some stuff on the net. ) One specialized in wrist grabs, another in pressure points, one in bone breaking, one in ground fighting, etc.

not necessarily...

Those are all valid points, in reference to MMA. that's why MMA guys cross train. at my school, we train no gi 2 nights a week, and for that very reason. Focus on lower body submissions will vary from school to school. There aren't alot of them, but there really doesn't need to be. On no go nights, we work submission wrestling and drill various takedowns. This is all a part of crosstraining. Same thing goes for his point about the guard. since the inception of the UFC, all of the fighters began to cross train, so they all know the guard and how to defend it. His points aren't a negative against bjj, merely an illustration of what happens when people test themselves. They can't say "Our master used this and was undefeated" because people have adapted to the technique and learned to counter it. MMA don't fall into the trap of constantly believing in untested techniques...

Bloodsport? I thought alexio was in kickboxer - tong po killed him.

I was the one who said it, unless someone else has and I missed it.

Or your friend has very bad balance...

I'm a weight lifter also. I squat over 400 lbs, have huge legs and have broken someone's ribs with my roundhouse... My kick would cripple your arm. The metal pole thing won't amount to much when blocking the kick. In my kung fu days, I did three star drills and plenty of other conditioning exercises and I still feel hard strikes. I can take them and keep going, but they do still hurt.

using the low block to block a strike can get your face torn apart - you have muay thai listed as one of your styles, so you should know that...

The way to gain strength is through strength training. However, you can't get inumanly strong. Just as humans can't tap into their full brain power, they can't tap into full muscle power. strength is really just a measurement of how hard of a contraction your neuromuscular system can produce, but we cannot make them contract to their fullest capabilty.

definitely start with the handstand. After you can hold it, work on walking. If you need to, you can do a handstand against a wall, until you get to the point where you can hold yourself up. This will still give your shoulders some work.

That's the point... A judo guy enters a bjj tourney and you have to be careful, or else you'll get thrown. When many bjj guys are against a judoka, they will jump guard so they can get him to a position they get take advantage of without having to get thrown first. he's acting like a judoka, so they are on guard, thinking he will throw them. Then, he jumps guard. s

supposedly, there are masters of internal martial arts that can do it, but I've never actually seen it done.

practice. I still suck at it though. I'm one of the fortunate ones - I did handprings, round offs, etc. alot as a kid and can still do them now. Some of the other guys are really struggling with them, as they were never able to do them as a kid. When walking on your hands, you have to be able to sense when your body is in the right position - straight up and down, border line leaning forward - many times, people will try to walk before they get to to 90 degree mark and end up falling back onto their stomach. some wait to late and flip over onto their backs. It just takes practice. One of our guys can walk the whole floor on his hands. I cna't yet.

A good sweep will require her to be in close, which isn't where she wants to be. footwork and distancing are the name of the game. Work your double jab, and also front, side and roundhouse kicks. use the jab and front kick to establish and maintain distance. Use the sidekick defensively. Use the roundhouse for offense. When working the double jab, circle around them. for any other punches you attempt, use your footwork. Get in, punch, get out.

your avatar looks like geese howard and his "raging storm" attack. Is that what it is?

This is true if the person isnt shown how to apply the blocks. There is a difference between how the blocks are taught in kihon and the application in sparring/self defence. Im talking about almost every block in the karate arsenal. Probably the worst is the low block, most likey to defend against leg kicks, along with the side to side. I think its just rediculous to block kicks (low kicks) with your hands. Not only will you break your arm, you leave yourselfl open for a follow up punch as well. the blocks work well enough. You don't apply them exagerratingly wide, as you see in kata - you will block tighter. Also, many of those blocks are supposed to be strikes and breaks.

drunken doesn't actually use booze... It stems from one of the stories of how the system began. There was a monk who was kicked out of the monestary. He got drunk, and in his drunken rage, he returned to the monestary and took out like 30 people. The next morning, he recalled what he had done and the techniques he had used in his drunken stupor. These techniques became the foundation of drunken boxing.

Trust me, not everybody can say the same.

In CMA, I've only seen reference to family styles of kung fu. Since the syles were limited to members of the family typically, they could be seen as clans, I guess, but I've never actually heard the term clan used in description of them.

Again, read what I said above on that. That's sparring, not a street fight. HUGE differance there. But how do you train that difference? Are you kicking to the groin and eye gouging with full power and resistance? Are you really breaking bones? You have a ruleset just like a sport fighter does.

visualization is no good if you can't actually DO it...

SBG has an established rep of good training. All other things being equal, I would go with them.

yeah, you really only hear that term when talking about ninja.