granmasterchen

I like to hit with all parts of the body. I love backfists.... round house kicks (top of foot) hook kicks (heel) palm strikes elbows finger attacks ridge hands spear hands... a few of these attacks are only practiced on the bag or other striking apparatus.....to deadly to do on opponents

many if you only want karate styles then I have studied: shotokan, asahi, wado, shorin, shito, kyokushin, and white tiger kempo karate... similar styles would be tsd, tkd, kajukenbo other than that the rest are different arts.

who is your head instructor? I might know him.

I have studied tiger and mantis. I like to mix them in with the multitude of other styles that I have studied over the years and create my own unorthodox amalgam fighting style. This keeps everything open to your own imagination and keeps your opponent off guard. I really like the grip strength based attacks of mantis and many of the open hand slashes of tiger.

most of the kyokushin fundamentals can be seen in K1 fighting tournaments... I get my information from studying and working with kyokushin karate over here in Japan for the last 3 years. My friends tell me that the style has given up on many of the traditional teachings and focus solely on K1 fighting. No more kata, pressure points, breaking, weapons...and so forth, only full contact sparring of the very basics that you can see on tv. I train with the Japanese champion Kohi and his school.

Well....out of the many places that I have trained at I've only had a few problems like this. There was a asahi ryu karate/kickboxing school in monterey california that was being taught by a fraud....my first mcdojo experience....and he didn't like many of things that I continued to do from my original art. Then there was a school over here in Japan, an ITF/WTF taekwondo school.....again, it was rather similar....this instructor turned out to be very one sided in their mindset....all about the money, and you do things their way to promote their styles to they can get more students so they can get more money....very sad to see. but as for the other arts, the instructors were very good level headed people in most cases, at least compared to the two I just mentioned. These good instructors had no problem with this. A good instructor will want you to become a successful martial artist, not a successful karateka or practitioner of tkd or judo champion.....I good martial arts instructor will want to see you progress and be above all the style bashing....and just become a master of the arts. hope that helps some

That sounds really interesting, I've never seen a college that offered martial arts.....hopefully I'll find one when I get back to the states.

check out a book called the, " Living the Martial Way" by Forrest E Morgan i think this will help you greatly. The author talks about being a warrior along with martial arts and the martial way. The book covers many advanced concepts and is a great read for any martial artist. I think this book will really answer many if not all of your questions, regarding training and how to live.....again, it's a really great book.

that point is VERY deadly....be careful when messing around with vital points. just do a search online for vital points and you will find several but again,.....the back of the neck has a very very sensitive spot .....i can't stress it enough if you know it well you can knock someone out with a slick smack to that spot....if you hit them in that spot with normal force....you can easily kill the person. It is a hard spot to find and accurately execute but you should only practice it with your instructor's guidance and never use it in a fight unless it is definitely a life or death situation.

I know that all the kuk sool practitioners have left the misawa japan area......not that that has anything to do with this forum, just wanted to let you know that there are no longer any here either.

lots of practice, patience, and breathing when you do your stretches i have found that you can really improve your level of flexibility for holding that stretch for a long time, not just 10-30 seconds like many of the styles i have witnessed. Hold the stretch till it burns and you feel the "pull", hold that for a minute or longer....until it's not so uncomfortable...then try to stretch a bit further....rotate between stretches and go back to original stretches...and go back and forth. Remember to do warm up stretches in order not to pull a muscle, and also cool down stretches....it has been shown that if you don't stretch at the end of a rigorous training session that your muscles can actually lose flexibility....not just stay the same but become more contracted and worse! so stretch often and take the time to get a good stretch, and make sure to breathe. by doing stretches for a longer length of time you make it a requirement to breathe..... many schools have you stretch for a 10-30 seconds and many students just hold their breath, you want to get oxygen to those muscles. hopefully this helps some.... oh, and yep i can do both front and side splits.... i found front splits to be much easier, and side splits (straddles) to take longer. Many black belt, highly skilled and experienced martial artist are unable to do full splits....so don't get discouraged, it takes time, and some people's bodies are just not built for a full split, while others can perform them with ease. you don't need to be able to do a full split to kick someone in the head, unless you are 4 feet tall and your opponent is 6 feet or taller.... so as long as your opponent isn't more than 2 feet taller than you you should be ok, lol

lol....yeah i thought so tooo.....then i don't know what happened....figures...

of course.....but our job on this post is to stereotype....lol

you have to be careful teaching in a school setting, there are the bullies in the school that will abuse the sparring and teaching just to pick on the weaker students.....just something to consider if done correctly and cafefully the school setting can be very beneficial to everyone.

tournament fighting is good for tournaments, street fighting is good for the streets now this doesn't mean that your skills will be useless on the street but it does mean that if you have the tournament fighting mentality (rules and such) then you will get hurt on the street. The street has no rules, use your techniques and skills, but only use those that are fast and of high quality, usually the basics are good. high flashy spinning kicks will only get you in trouble unless you are very lucky. no rules, like mentioned before, kick to the knees, eye gouge, strike the throat, groin, foot stomps, shin stomps, biting, hair pulling, knees, elbows and full force and non stop attacks...you don't stop until the fight is over...and that is usually when someone pulls you off the other person.....and I think that everyone can agree....you don't want to be the person getting beat on when that happens, so rely on your basics.

24fightingchickens said the truth there, once you start getting involved in the politics things start losing their fun.....politics are bad.....too much drama wouldn't it be nice if we could all just get together and train and learn and that was it....no petty bickering over students and money and rank and such.

don't be one tracked in your thinking...listen to what others have to say and actually consider it and think it over, instead of just saying..."nope, you're wrong, my way of thinking is right bla bla bla"

there are two parts to martial arts....bujutsu=martial arts and budo=martial way we learn to fight, but more importantly we learn to live, the inner, deeper philosophy behind it all is what we should all strive for, of course it takes many of us years to reach that stage....but never the less....we would all want to live in a society that doesn't involve violence....through our training we learn how to protect our self and others....but we should never use it for our own personal gain......it's kinda like the force in starwars....lol....we are jedi.....hmmmmm i think that thought just took a lot of meaning from my post.....but maybe george lucas was onto something.....i'll stop rambling now.....

breathing is a very key part to stretching and thus flexibility. when you stretch, make it last awhile and breathe, everytime you breathe out try to stretch a little more with it....not a lot....just a little....like a centimeter or two.....everyone tries to stretch two extra inches....don't rush it

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i enjoyed: Harold Howard (got to train with him) Pat Smith Oleg Taktarav Gary Goodridge Dan Severn Keith Hackney (got to train with him) Tito Ortiz Vitor Belfort Tank Abbott Gerard Gordeau Remco Pardoel Marco Ruas

nicely put.....shark or lion.....well it all depends if it is on land or in the water...lol maybe we should alter the situation some. give them both horses....and their armor...shield or what not.... if you start them at a distance the advantage would go to the samurai for their knowledge and art of the bow.....but.....if it was samurai on horse with a yari or naginata versus a knight on horse with a lance....hmmmmm or a battle on foot with armor. The knight in plate or chain with sword and shield or any other weapon of choice against the samurai in their armor with katana, or kama or sai or what ever other weapon.... hmmmmmm

yep, it goes in a full circle....you train for the situation that you hope never happens, and learn how to avoid creating such a situation

good job....then you should be able to break boards and bricks with no problem

that would be a very nice day....but i doubt it will ever happen....too much hype about a guy that ....well...i'll just be quite. ( I don't think he should get all the recognition that he does)