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um, certainly don't turn your back to him. if it dosen't work, you're out before you even started.

for $45, i think you're best off looking for something used. can you get a new heavy bag that low?

that said, there have been plenty of KO's in the UFC by high kicks against accomplished grapplers. it's all in the set up, really.

i tell ya, the guys i'm training with are conditioned like mad... the warm up alone nearly wiped me out... it should be great fun

kinda fits with the story behind it then, dosen't it?

i'm in a boat of diggin the idea, but not having the resources to get there. is anyone coming from around WI or through it who'd be willing to car pool with yours truly? i make wonderful company

according to an article in a magazine i read ( i really don't feel like looking it up), the chain whip was just used as a secondary weapon, incase you lost or broke your primary one. y'know, you could whip it out (heh heh) to distract them so you could make your escape or perhaps get in a good final strike before taking it to hands or something. it wasn't really meant as an offensive weapon. the nunchaku, on the other hand, was designed to shatter ones skull. so i've heard.

what!?! 2 pages in and no ones mentioned blood sport!?! come one, where've you guys been!?! you gotta' love how the fat arrogant biker with no technique almost takes the whole thing. and the music... "kumite! kumite! kumite! kumite!" gah... awful...

i think you have the right idea and the right attitude, which is the first step. if you think of it as a revenge game, you're gonna' miss a lot of opportunities. we have a guy at the dojang, we all call him big don. he's around 6'3 and probably 250 lbs. a very strong fella, and kind of a pain to spar against. i ran into the same problem you have now. so i'd ask him to train with me after class a few times, and tell him to just jab at my head. jab jab jab. again and again, and i experimented with it, swaying, trapping, cutting angles, all sorts of stuff. most importantly, these helped a great deal my sense of rythyhm and took away that second where you see a punch coming at you and shut your eyes. i recommend you do the same. it's most important, i think, to do it out of self benefit though, and not to do it to kick *. had i done the latter, i don't think i'd have learned as much as i did as fast, and i got a good training buddy out of it.

my school closed down before i could get as far into my kali training as i would have liked, but don't you eventually lose the sticks and knives? i mean, at super advanced stages, don't you retain the techniques and lose the weapons, keeping the basic principles and applications, or something to that end? i think i read something like that somewhere. i always had enough fun stick fighting, myself

http://www.karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=6186 check that out. i haven't actually read through it, i have my own stretching routine. but i'm sure there's plenty of good stuff in there. dynamic stretching every other day (your splits and the like) should do the trick

actually, i thought the chain whip and the rope dart were seperate and distinct weapons? and with the exception of wushu forms, were really secondary weapons, mostly for if your primary one was lost or broken, and thus the techniques didn't really get depth to them until fairly recently? correct me if i'm wrong, chinese weaponry was never really my thing...

wait, you're at new york universty 4 1/2 hours northwest of madison? one of us has messed up geographies but yeah, waunakee is right by me. that said, indeed, i'm moving like the very very white man that i am. still, in observing the others around me, they go almost out of their ways to leave their rib cages open. for instance, esquiva (sp?), when they put the arm that my first thought would be to guard the ribs, behind them. the scooping arm for jinga makes more sense. i realize i've had a mere 2 hours of capoeira under my belt, i was just curious is all. i'm very excited about it, it's been on my mind since i left. and um, it's omulu, or something to that end. i'm not sure if that falls under one of those categories... and it's not capoeira that dosen't allow you to cross train, it's HRD. i think it's a korean nationalist thing, and, because it's part of an academy, a scheme to get more money. i think the justification for it is that if you have the time to be training in other styles, you should be using it to polish your HRD. as for capoeira, it's in a gym where you can also learn judo and bjj, and from the looks of it, boxing is coming soon, and if you pay by the month, you can train in all of them at no extra charge, thus encouraging you to cross train... though from the looks of it, people seem to stick to their own things. if i drop HRD, i'll probably pick up one or two of the other styles.

to tell you the truth, i doubt it. you're actually not allowed to cross train in HRD, and capoeiristas mostly seem concerned with capoeira. wing chun with wing chun. still, madison isn't the worst vacation spot in the world. always a pleasure to see your capital, if nothing else

forgive me, i had no idea where to put capoeira-related stuff. i figured if it should go somewhere else, here would be as good a starting point as any. so i started capoeira today (my god, i'm worse at that than i am at wing chun!) and couldn't help but notice that in jinga (sp?), you always leave a rib cage open. and during esquiva (sp?), you're still leaving a rib cage open. are those just not targets in capoeira? do y'all not worry about 'em? is there a defense i'm not seeing? just curious is all.

the way i was taught, you should be coming in under the hips, and i suppose grabbing isn't the last part, but you're knocking them off balance as your coming to grab... um, you kind of ram them a bit before grabbing their arm, if that makes any sense.

hm, and here i thought you were a male boxer from england

uh, maybe our shoulder throws are different, but if i have your arm, i should already be under your hips and have you off balance... grabbing the arm is the last step, you shouldn't be able to just horse stance out of it.

nah, and i doubt you'll ever see it in a fantasy fighter like this. they have 2 TKD characters in 5, and it's kind of hard to differentiate (if my understanding of KSW is correct) TKD with throws and KSW... which would be difficult to differentiate from HRD, for that matter.

"In my style of TKD, it's a 3 point kick, so it's worth learning to do well. Connecting a jump spin kick in competition is a thing of beauty!!" in TKD being the key words there. i don't bash on jump kicks, i know a lot of them myself. and the UFC people can't even bash on them, as there was a KO by a jump kick to the head in UFC 49. still, chances are it's not your best bet. rairly do you want both feet off the ground, since it's easy to just get bowled over. plus they telegraph a lot and you're extremely vulnerable when you're landing. they're great in point sparring, but other forms of sparring and street fighting are a different kind of game.

"If you're about to get thrown, for example a shoulder throw, you can slide into a horse stance and drop your weight and most likely you won't get thrown." um, i wouldn't do that. than all i'd have to do is turn your arm and i have you in an arm bar, or i can keep cranking and flip you over that way. if you're about to get thrown, unless someone has a better idea, i'd say your best option is to go with it and worry about it when you hit the ground.

what are you , 6'6''? i think i can reach that. if i ever meet you, i'll try it and you can goto town on me

as sevenstar alluded too, it's a transitional stance. say, if you get a joint lock, i've often found my foot sliding out into a horse stance. or the throws he mentioned, though your legs are a lot closer together. but yeah, c lock, arm bar, chicken wing, old reliable... i find myself in horse stance all of the time, in addition to it just being a good endurance exercise.

all of them.

think tekken with weapons.