SevenStar

yeah, if he's teaching all of them, his skill has got to be lacking somewhere... or he may have trained in jkd and capoeira and is teaching the components of his jkd as separate arts... it's definitely something you want to reasearch first.

yeah, it's kodokan

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I would do muay thai and bjj. If you can afford it and have the time, do kali also.

an advantage of taking it on the forearms is that you are staying in tight, keeping it hard for him to get in a good shot. When you parry, especially if you are trying to parry flurries of punches, you've got a greater chance of eating leather. an advantage of the parry is that when you parry downward, for example, you are redirecting his arm in that direction, placing it out of your way and leaving him open for a quick counter attack. a disadvantage of taking it on the forearms is that some people will go flatfooted and stop all motion. Now, they are just sitting ducks, doing their best to not get KTFO. IMO, use both - you may find one that you prefer, but at least you will be proficient with both. If you're an infighter, cover and take it. if you fight from a distance, parry.

Okay - Kou ch'uan - you mentioned that some styles are actually a portion of a larger system - which I agree with. So assuming Kou ch'uan is a small piece of what was left out of what many shaolin schools are teaching, where is their ground work coming from? In the short time I spent in longfist (4 years) I learned alot of chin na, but never anything ground based. our ground grappling was more or less poor bjj - like they had gone to a seminar and were teaching what they learned. How is one to know whether or not their style contains Kou ch'uan, and if it does, why wait X number of years in order to learn ground fighting? you can cross train and combine what you know with what you learn,when the time comes.

I'm always open for being wrong though... Prove me wrong. Site me two styles and support them with links, photos, etc. - any style other than dog boxing, as I know of that one - that adequately addresses ground work with their chin na, and to the extent that a grappling art does. And actually, you can send dog boxing links also, as I'd like to see pics of the style I've heard so much about.

no misconception, just truth. chin na is in no way as extensive on the ground as bjj. some chin na exponents may address ground work, but not with the same depth. CMA on the avg just doesn't address ground grappling. some ground fighting, but I make a distinction there, as grappling doesn't usually address kicking from the ground and other such tactics.

good job so far. Keep it up!

we have katas, but don't focus on them, per se. They aren't required until brown belt, and are basically just the text book way of doing the throws. There isn't a kata for every throw, however. I say "per se", because we work the form of our throws anyway, while we are drilling. I attend two judo clubs - one is more traditional - drilling the textbook form. The other is competition oriented and focuses on versions modified for such.

exactly.

yeah, he's alive and well. His school is still up and running also.

chin na is not groundwork intensive. Take a student who is proficient in chin na and put him on the ground with a grappler...

you aren't getting applicable experience in a real situation until you are in one. Anything else is in the dojo. TGhe kata thing was an example, not necessarily directed at your school. However, you dont even do the single technique katas, like judo does? I know there are various styles of jjj that do them.

lee didn't have a black belt in anything, as far as I know, and he only studied wing chun for 5 years before he came to the us. he dabbled in other arts, but wasn't in depth with any of them. He later created his jun fan and jkd. Lee had a lot of natural talent. That said, there's also alot of hype surrounding him... he's only got one documented fight - supposedly a lot of others, as trouble with the triads is part of why he got sent to the US when he was 18. However, we can't really verify much of that, or how many fights he's had. Everything else is seen either in his movies, or friendly sparring matches with people.

the power generation for those techniques are different...

you state that you're a judoka... but some thick surgical tubing and wrap it around something sturdy. You can use the open ends as the lapel and sleeve and practice your throws. This is excellent for uchi komi practice, as I do 300 reps a night, and I don't know many training partners that will let me do 300 on them every day... as for other styles, train the way you do in class - if you're a thai boxer, footwork, shadowboxing, bag work, cardio, weight training, etc. if you're a karateka or chinese stylist, shadow fighting, footwork, stance training, forms training,etc.

the place probably teaches jkd concepts, not jkd... if that's the case, then jun fan is like the base style - kicking, punching, trapping, etc. and jkd concepts expands on how to apply it. jun fan is bruce's personal style, based on techniques he preferred and modifications that he felt needed to be made to wing chun, which he studied for 5 years.

I live in elvis land - on of his teachers is here - a guy named kang rhee. From what I hear, elvis was actually quite good. He did actually train. He had a black belt in chito ryu, and later trained with the guy I mentioned above, kang rhee. He trained with him as time permitted, for about 4 years. as far as I know, the rank given to him by parker was honorary, which seems common for stars. Remember Brian Genese? (from the series "Street Justice" and various B movies) he has a black belt in TKD, but trained in hung gar for a while and was given an honorary black sash in it.

Can you explain this a little more...? Thx sure... think about the times you've seen MA get mauled by streetfighters with no training at all... theoretically, that should not happen, because you are trained and he is not. Howver, in MA things other than fighting are taught - philosophy, respect, etc. and you are taught that you should only use your skills if you have to, among other things. When you spar (at some schools) it's point fighting, which gets some people in the habit of always pulling punches - even in a fight - because that's what they are used to doing. I've seen it happen before. In addition, you spend time working alot of advanced techniques, and some people tend to focus on those rather than basics. When they get into a fight, they forget the advanced stuff (it's been proven that once the heart rate jumps above 120 and adrenaline is flowing, you forget anything that is not second nature to you) and the basics that they have not really been practicing are not ingrained into them either. Consequently, they aren't much better off than the street fighter. The street fighter then has the advantage of his instinct, which is to beat you, no matter what. mindset is a VERY powerful thing. This doesn't apply to all martial artists out there, but does apply and is a valid concern in my mind, as I've seen it happen.

trust me, it's not a new technique...

technically speaking, karate likes to keep stuff simple also. It's the modernized stuff that has all of those flashy kicks.

I wouldn't think that that would be applicable. I can do a tornado kick and land it with the same leg I kicked on (that's the chinese way) as well as jump spinning kicks... those haven't helped my roundhouse at all. Those movements are done so fast, balance isn't really that big a factor.