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There are many various factors that can be placed on this "area" along with the "technique" used for the strike. Most strikes can cause effects like what sohan mentioned. You can also break bones that can puncture the heart or nearby arteries, you could possibly sever an artery and cause massive internal bleeding similar to the use of a spear hand to the armpit (in some schools) or pinch an artery like shui tora was saying as seen in a triangle choke hold or sleeper hold...cut off the blood flow to the brain creating a pocket of air?? in the blood flow and cause unconsciousness?? there are many various factors for each technique depending on the specific target.....could also be a nerve, pressure point, vital point, a meridean or something like that....but i have heard that a palm strike will make the heart skip a beat, if you strike it hard enough you can cause cardiac arrest. There was a show....not sure if it was ripleys believe it or not, or a similar show where they attached heart monitors to the uki/students and the instructor struck them and you could see the heart beat change dramatically....

looking at the styles you have listed in your background i think you will like it very much. Your background of various styles is very similar(almost exact) to my own when i started to study mantis and tiger kung fu. I'm not sure of how many years you have studied but I had studied for about 10 years of tangsoodo/shotokan and tkds plus a few years of mixed grappling and several years of jkd. I was around my early twenties when i started mantis. SO with that back ground i found it a very very good addition to my skills at the time. Looking back i am very glad that i got introduced to it, but like always you must make sure that the instructors are good instructors.

there are now many legal ramifications based on self defense and it has been shown that today it is very hard for martial artists to be protected by this legal issue. If you are in a fight, you can get away with self defense usually, but if you break a bone....then you are looking at a felonious assault and some serious remifications. The major key to self defense is that you better hope that you have control and can end a fight without seriously harming your attacker! The courts view a martial artist as a professional that has the control to do manipulation or joint locks to end a fight with out harm they dont realize how the circumstances of a real fight are to a person not accustomed to the fight scene. They dont take into effect reaction time, repetition of techniques in the dojo, instictive strikes and adrenaline rushes. They expect you to end the fight calmly and peacefully......be prepared if you are going around looking for fights. It is just like the great masters say, it is best NOT to fight in all situations.....something to think about.

then there is also the final "snap" at the end of extention to compensate when all levels of the limb are now snapped at once into perfect alignment.....this is definitely not a stupid question but a very advanced question that you should be proud of to start a thread about.

Great to hear it! Keep up the good work

hatsumi sensei teaches ninpo budo taijutsu in japan...he has many military students that also teach around military bases, mostly over in the pacific theater, being that you are in cali you may find something at a base close to your location. Tne name of the art form has changed in so many various peoples hands that it is hard to find out info on each various style. I agree with Bushido_Man96 though that b/c of all the mcdojos going on it is very very hard to find a legitimate dojo that teaches this art properly.

just keep at it, imagine that those moves are being performed in a real life situation where each block is blocking an attack powerful enough to knock you out, also every technique that you execute as an attack needs to be powerful enough to knock out your opponent each time. Remember to breathe, if you do it with proper power and intensity you will notice a difference after you perform each form. Doing it this was is very draining on your system, but it shows power. With more practice you will be able to control your breathing and condition yourself better because now kata will become a cardiovascular job instead of just repetition of skillful and graceful movements. This is just one of the many levels of understanding in kata.

it depends on how many belts are in your system, how knowledgeable you are in the area, what the rank progression of belts is in your style and how hard you train.

the way i understand it is that when they decided to create a unified martial arts system from the kwans that they first gave it the name of tkd and it was based off of shotokan principals......BUT....quickly after doing this they had an arguement in which another group claimed they already had picked taekwondo for its name....so they changed the original art they created (namewise) from tkd to tsd.....but of course not all of the students and instructors that were now teaching in the US got the memo....so many continued to teach tkd as it was picked out to be like shotokan. Then there was the new type of tkd, the group complaining, that is what we see today in majority as tkd. The tang soo do on the other kept that name from then on.....a confusing time and still confusing to this day.....it all depends on your instructor and where they got their knowledge from and what it was called at that time.

I thought i would start a thread based on my studies of various styles over the years along with the cultures that i've been exposed to. My belief is that there are three different styles style #1 sport style #2 budo style #3 bujutsu according to the information that i have been given budo would refer to all art forms that end in "do" .....generally speaking......which have more of a philosophical undertone to their teachings which make it a martial "art". Examples being aikido, hapkido, tkd, tsd, karatedo. These arts are still martial and physical, but they teach us philosophical principals as well...in general bujutsu generally would refer to the art forms that end in "jutsu" and are more heavily based on the physical aspects of warfare and killing. Examples would be jujutsu, taijutsu, aikijutsu and so forth, these are training programs formally used by organizations to teach soldiers certain combat skills....again this is a generalization and sport, in my opinion, would be what we see on tv, olympic tkd, k1 kickboxing, mma. These are new age creations that are meant only for competition in general. Sports have had a huge influence on martial arts for centuries and over time many sports have been modified into arts, for example judo. Also many practitioners take their style into a sporting event but over time that competition will evolve to create a universal style of "sport" just like we have seen in the ufc. again these are generalized concepts of the kanji used in the actual words and the various meanings in each culture. Of course there are many exceptions. For example; most of us do not go to such great lengths to find the meanings of the kanji and will simply add do or ryu or a similar prefix to the end of a martial art if we decide to start up one later in life. In most people's minds the meaning of do or ryu means study of. But in the japanese language there is more than a simple meaning to every word. well i'll leave the rest to you and look forward to the comments that you will have on my thoughts.

I judged not too long ago in an all pacific ma tourney where schools from hawaii, cali, korea and japan competed. I judged very fairly.....BUT....when it was all over there were many parents,students, instructors, and "martial artists" that were very upset with me BECAUSE i didn't give favoratism to their schools b/c they new me. Funny how some people react when you DON'T cheat, lol.

i've studied both MDK TKD growing up for over ten yrs in the states, then MDK TSD while stationed in japan for 3 yrs......nearly identical just like shotokan and many other forms of karate which i also studied off and on for 4 yrs.....the only difference is how the instructors have taught their styles in the last 60 yrs and how it has evolved in that time frame. I have found that i can go to anyone of these schools and within a few months be awarded a black belt because nearly everything they teach is the same as my original art form.

nice read.

nice story, just picturing it puts a smile on my face. I don't know how many times i have went to places and sparred various people and tapped them on the forehead above each eye and told them they were now blind, or "snapped their necks" or similar lethal techniques. Good story.

oh yes, funny story about knock outs with nunchucks....i was at a keith hackney seminar....way way back in the 90s he was in the early ufc fights if you recall back then he was the guy who busted his hand all up beating down the really big sumo guy. anyway, at the seminar we did this exercise where we would have a person standing behind us about 10 yards away and they would throw a frisbie at the back of our heads. The exercise was to "feel" the frisbie and with out looking, swing the nunchuku over our shoulders and strike the frisbie. over all by the end of the day there were lots of broken frisbies but there were also several...several students that knocked themselves out when they cracked themselves on the back of the head....fun time.

and once you've repeated the kata over and over again for a year, it will become almost reflex-like in nature when you go to perform it again later on. It is kind of like how you hear a song on the radio that you haven't heard for 5 yrs or more but your remember the words to it. Somewhere deep in your psyche the information is there, you just have to get in the routine of training your body, muscle memory, to coordinate with idea and you will be executing techniques with out even thinking of them

i agree with sohan, it would just be like watching a bob sapp fight in pride

also practice with your eyes closed, that makes it a bit more exciting and you get a better "feel" for the weapon.

where to start.....i noticed lots of questions from different people and not nearly all have been answered(not that i claim to have all the answers). For the wrist spin, if you start from a stationary position by having the weapon draped over your wrist you can move your arm in a circular rotation...example; using the right arm, rotate right to left quickly and this should allow for the rotation of the weapon on the hand then you can just grab a handle on its spin around....but i did notice that you mentioned multiple spins....so you probably already know this and are asking for something more advanced than i can describe to do properly. figure 8 rotation: this may help a bit, i didnt see you do it in your video, this is a classic technique that we typically see with this weapon and it just helps to give the user a basic understanding of the movement of the various parts keep in mind that one of the main uses with this weapon is distraction. For instance you can seriously fake out your opponent by dropping the rotation end down toward your lower side or groin area and then quickly snap the handle back up to strike the opponent on the side of the head. For this reason it is very important to understand how to manipulate the weapon in order to use it effectively in combat. And always keep in mind the art of faking when wielding this weapon. part of form; there was a very very very small segment of a form that i recall from when i was first learning how to use it. It started out with the right hand doing 3 figure eight formations out to the front then dropping the handle down to the inside of the thigh, swinging it back up over the right shoulder and using the left arm to catch the rotating handle under the arm pit of the right arm....from there you repeate but your now using the left arm since you grabbed it with the left and such. and to answer someone's question i haven't trained extensively on using two at the same time, only one....mostly. also; nice video!

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some of the original styles of tkd are very much like shotokan and never took the name switch to tangsoodo. My style is one such style. I study moodukkwon taekwondo. We learn aikido manipulations, judo throws, jkd trapping along with the basics attributed to tkd, tsd and karates. The forms we study are shotokan based as well. We teach hardcore, very violent and lethal self defenses and train old school style. But like others have said and seen, most tkd is not like this, one of the few exceptions to the rule. I'm curious to see what younwhadoug says for further info into his particular style.....wait i guess its already listed by his name; youn wha ryu tkd.

dbz is great, i also like ranma 1/2, and yu yu hakushu or something like that

wow, his skill was amazing, i hope i can be that good someday, lol

If you continue the path you are on; you will most likely end up where you are headed.

mas oyama started kyokushin karate, but not the K-1, k1 is a a recently created sport.