Fenris-wolf

You're nutty, Fireka!

:lol: Oh man, that's funny!

I liked Martial_Artist's post very much. I will point out that as a female I'm looking at it from a different perspective, obviously. I must take exception to the comment somebody made about letting her hit you... If I was going to hit somebody out of the blue (and they'd have to deserve it), I would want to smash them to the ground. I know I am capable, and I wouldn't underestimate somebody by gender if I was you. Not getting sh*tty, just something I felt I had to say.

I personally am a big fan of focus pads. They're really good for speed, accuracy, timing, footwork... Anything really, although Johnny has a valid point about the padholder. On the other hand I personally like them as a pad holder as well, since they're so much lighter than thai pads! (We use thai pads for punching if we're mixing in kicks/knees or if there're no focus pads left) I personally think they are best hard. Unlike thai pads it's pretty hard to have them "too hard". -Kicking brand new thai pads hurts! But soft focus pads would just be annoying. Also you can get some which are bent so that they're easy to hold for straight punches and uppercuts, which is good, and also the curve over the spot makes it very satisfying if you hit it right.

What's San Soo... Can you give a comparison? I've never heard of it.

I go to Muay Thai for 1 1/2 hrs on Monday and Wednesday mornings, 2hrs Mon-Thurs evenings, 2hrs Saturday morning and 2 1/2 hrs Sunday morning. So that's about 15 1/2 hrs. Judo is 3 x 1 1/2 hrs on Tuesday and Thursday night + Saturday morning -after Muay Thai, we share a dojo. That's 4 1/2 hrs. (Really? you ask ) This obviously differs sometimes -I have the option of going for 1 1/2 hrs on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, but I usually skip that since 3 training sessions in a day around work is a little bit much!

Actually, interestingly enough, Thailand doesn't produce the best female fighters due to the belief that women "taint the ring", so they would not teach their women until recently. Apparently NZ and Australia produce some of the best women. Anyway, different clubs practice differently but there are no official sub-catagories as such. There's a Scottish girl in my class and we were actually discussing the differences the other day because where she learnt it back home they taught her kicks differently to what our instructor prefers. She does have nice strong kicks though, especially when she does it "right".

Blah, Kirves, I'm a she anyway! Mostly I only wrote that because I was amused first off at the thread and secondly because I had nothing more exciting to say than *lol* P.S. "Post-wh*ring"... I like that term!

Ah, and if you want to be particular about it, it's good for the deer too. If they're overpopulated they will just die from cold/malnourishment anyway. Well, so long as people aren't hunting just the stags and heathy mature does!

Marimba? Hehe, how cool. Anyway, you don't play piano because you have to! Once you get to a certain level you have the enjoyment of the sound and the feeling of playing. But that's just me.

Haha. 7th form (final year of high school) Calculus was complicated enough!

It's alright, Guitar_lover, I don't follow either!

Stirrer!

Man, my dojo is sooo relaxed. At Muay Thai, anyway. I always push boundaries with our instructor (not disrespectfully, he's a natural * and so am I), which sometimes earns push-ups, but he seems to appreciate it. Like when I was sitting snuggled up between my classmates on his couch watching fight videos and I'm like "Maark...?" "Yes?" "Can you bring me the coke?" Everyone laughed at me and made jokes about burpees, but he did it. Although I started Judo recently, and while I know them all so it's pretty relaxed, I don't think I could be as sarcastic as I am at Muay Thai.

That's beautiful! Good one. It's OK, I do that too, and have been doing it for the last 5 months!

That is pretty damn cool.

Oh... Well, that's confusing

I don't think it's a matter of Judo being the best (I hope not), or "as brutal" as something, just that it is often underestimated by practicioners of other styles.

Ah, Sansoouser, I am very much a believer that the fight makes the art, but it's only part of a whole.

Nice. Hey, I come from Canterbury (which is considerably smaller than Kansas, believe me ), and that is sooo flat. When you fly over it it's like looking at a quilt; completely horizontal and devided into perfect squares of green or brown. And Kchenault, if you think about it it's quite conceivable that a pancake the size of Kansas wouldn't be that flat! Depends who made it I suppose...

Alrighty then, Fenris signing off. Hope you enjoy your fireworks!

(More atmosphere building)

Nope. Arg, now that's going to annoy me for ages

JONNY CASH, JONNY CASH, JONNY CASH That's the country singer I like. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Yayyayyay... That's the country singer I was searching for! I think. Unless I'm going mad. Yes, it was him! Anyway, thank you Battousai, I'm going to go tell anyone in the karate-music thread who it was. Like they care. :D