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you are right, koreans arent big people, but i doubt that tkd was designed for a certain type of person. almost every excersise in tkd (be it tul or whatever) is designed as if you were fighting a person that is exactly as tall/small as you are yourself. having long legs can be an advantage in sparring however (tall ppl), but so is agility (small people). if you have a tall and agile kicker, then your probably done for i had the chance to meet Ung Kim Lan, the coach of the german national team. he is the most awesome tkdist i have ever met, and he is about 165cm or something.

heyya! i really enjoy my tkd training, but i know that it misses certain things. we do falling, throwing, choking, groundstuff and lowkicks as well, but we do it too seldom and dont hit each other actually. now i really love lowkicks, as long as i dont get hit by them, that is and that is what i wanted to know. how can i prepare myself for getting hit by one? which muscles to i have to strenghten in order to let them absord most of the force behind the kick? i wanna be able to walk properly after getting hit by one, you know what excersies to Thai- and Phililipino KickBoxers do in order to resist them better? besides, i wanna learn lowkicks as soon as i am attending university (i am sure there will be an art somewhere that teaches them) but what can i do in order to prepare myself for this? with this i mean being able to take them, as well as do deliver them. you know... a kind of "a beginners guide to lowkicks" or something would be cool thanks for listening

the thing i use is completely unmeasuring and not electronical i got the feeling that it does not make any sense wasting my time on this cant help it. i do reps and i do them at a regular pace which is not too slow i think, but still :confused:

i am doing about 40-45 rows in one minute... i dont have anything to measure my heart rate tho. how much do is ok for a workout at this machine? i did 700 rows today and nothing hurt afterwards... guess i gotta increase the weight.

i got on of these things in my basement... it does not belong to me, but i can use it as much as i want und whenever i want: http://www.a.tu-berlin.de/TAD/dokumentation/autocad_bibliothek/einrichtung/xtra/original/ruderbank01.png thats not the actual thing, but it comes close do you guys think its a good machine, or do i just waste my time on it? is it better to do push ups than this? which muscle groups are affected by training on this thing. thanks

although this might sound a little stupid, i'll give it a go what do i have to know when i buy a jumprope? what is the ideal lenght for me (i am about 176cm)? what material do you prefer? are there any real differences between jumpropes? thx

yeah, he was shot by accident as far is i remember.

thanks, but sadly its not my page i'll take that as a compliment anyway btw, i am german and the page ends on .co.uk i just liked it and wanted to share

http://www.badgerphone.co.uk sry, here the link pasted in the correct URL signs

this really needs no introduction just watch, i mean listen: http://www.badgerphone.co.uk[\URL] note that this is not the annoying badger, badger, badger, badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM - song that we all know. enjoy

yeah, tried that before, but alas, i dont find precise answers on my questions

did you intend to comment on this or just quote it?

the question troubles me for quite some time now and is probably very simple i heard many good things about the philipino stick arts, but my question is: arnis is an art that takes long before you can make use of it, right? i mean, you have to learn to fight with a stick and two sticks and then learn to fight empty handed. what benefit do you have if you learn that first and not use the time to learn, lets say, some kind of kickboxing where u learn techniques that you can use straight away. who here is practicing arnis btw? i'd like to know whether there are throws and lowkicks in arnis.

could u then tell us what kihap you used when u were hit?

obviously not well, thanks to the 20 people that viewed the thread anyway

oh, i just made the 200th contribution to my own thread and yes, just in case anyone wants to ask: this indeed was my only reason for posting take care everyone

and the only reason you posted is to tell us, that u dont like this thread?

Sikaran (aka Filipino Footfighting). afaik its a mixture of Savate and MuayThai style elbowing and kneestrikes. could anyone please tell me something about it? i'd like to know whether there is or aint belts in this style, what competitions are like (the rules if possible), are lowkicks allowed, how old is this style, have you had personal expirience in it or with practicioners of it, how would you compare it to muay thai, chinese sanda or american kickboxing? i know this is quite alot, but thanks for any assistence on it.

oh yeah, as soon they r black belts they are allowed forget about karate. is this meant to make sense? yeah, great - could have guessed so. yes, perfectly understandable. maybe it'd be better to talk to the childrens, why they dont like it. what you said at the very end of the post would have been my advice to. try to figure out why playing games and learning interesting stuff bores them so much. they are together with other kids and after all, its a chance to get away from their ignorant parents

if you can still move it, its not broken, but seeing a doctor cant be wrong. but dont worry, its just a toe - you got 10 of them, so who cares j/k i didnt know that

we all know the famous "hiiiiiyaaaaaaaa" that martial arts are known for. but what exactly do you guys cry out? i know that its hard to describe and every kihap is different, but thats what makes me curious P.S.: please dont do posts that you think kihaps are crap and ridiculous, ok? i know that there is nothing funnier than a beginners class of white belts doing kihaps, but hey - its there for a purpose

actually this thread was meant to figure out which single art covers all of these best. sadly there is not "best of all arts in one"-jitsu or something many arts started in order to achieve the perfect art (so did tkd and look what it became ), but i have my doubts that they r as good as they r said to be. this certain art needs to cover all fighting ranges (IMO there r more than 3, btw) like Krav Maga or Kung Fu San Soo, a good teaching method with bagwork, sparring and drills that condition the body, like Muay Thai e.g. and there must be no crap carried along, like learning a foreign language or such. the time you spend bowing could better be spent practicing. i have nothing against traditional arts or meditation or bowing and such, but spending too much time on it aint right imo. i respect my instructors very much and all the people (instructors so to speak) spending time, helping strangers they never met before learing such a wonderful thing as a martial art, but there are different ways to show this. there have been threads on a similar topic i think @C.-Karate ! revive one of them or start a new one - its a good topic to discuss on

yeah, interesting think this has been posted in the humor section a while ago, tho.

that is my favorite sofar

i didnt say that there aint no hard stuff in it i am no expert in Taijutsu though, so i dont actually know - what i stated above was my impression when seeing taijutsu pracitioners train, which wasnt that often to be honest. apparently, i didnt