sansoouser

what feat is it you wish for me to perform? tell me, and i promise you i will do everything possible (and impossible) to show it to you before your death. What can you do? Raise my arm?

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sorry it looked alot better i had it all layed out but they moved the dots to the left, it did say happy 4th but oh wel...

:D :D :D :D

lol, i've already seen that but its funny how the kung fu master gets taken out

not really an animal, an inner rage, adrenaline if you will. So you can unleash all your energy and strength when you need it.

I see what you are saying gran, whenever I try to do those things in the back of my mind I keep saying ,this is dumb it's impossible why am I even bothering with this. And then I try to focus harder and still nothing happens but I feel alot better

everybody has the ability to do things like that. For different interpretations, like say gran you say it's chi and another person on here said it was god helping them. Like when the lady ( it was a grandma ) lifted a car off her grand son to save him. Was that her physical strength? No. Was it her chi? Maybe. Was it god helping her save her child? Maybe. All you can bet on is that she had every ounce of her energy mental and physical concentrating on saving the child, anyway possibile. So you decide, was it faith or whatever? The only experience i've had with this stuff is when I was young we had a big wooden dresser filled with books and my brother was playing around it when it feel on him, because my other brother was pushing it while he was pulling it ( my older brother is mentally challenged and he was about 16 ) and it fell on my little borther. Now usually i couldn't even open a draw, but when I saw him under there I seemed to gather strength that I never had before and lift it back up against the wall. It felt as if god was lifting the dresser with me, that I had the strength of 10 men, at the time I was 9 years old.

You woudnl't hurt yourself to save your child?

i thought it was judo vs karate not karate vs jujitsu. Did you change it along the lines somewhere? Anyway here it is plain and simple Karate = Striking Judo = Throwing and wrestling pins

....Bruce lee was just hotheaded

Well if your new it's better to pick one then master it or become good at it then go onto another if you do 2 at a time beginning you won't excel fast in either most likely.

it's like UFC thing, no holds barred, well actually more like WWE but actually doing the moves to people, it's very painful and brutal and don't practice the dangerous moves in competition anymore.

Does anyone know what this is before I go on? It was the stuff ancient greeks used on persian inavders and the thing abe lincoln used to smash some bodys butt on the frontier. Good ol catch as catch can wrestling!

Now no one take any offense to this article, it's just my opnion so please take no offense none was given because both sport and self defense martials give you good skills. So once again to NO offense.

Let’s start with the real keys to survival on the street — mental and physical toughness. Martial arts, as commonly practiced in these United States, develop neither quality very well. The legendary “masters” of long-ago China could beat the tar out of their enemies less because of some secret skills than because they were stronger, fitter, and physi­cally tougher than their likely opponents. Likewise, an Okinawan karateka, who ate a decent diet and worked out with stone barbells was understandably an easy victor over a peasant who performed stoop labor and lived on the verge of starvation. And nowadays a professional boxer will make short work of the average working stiff. Mastery stems not from the “style” itself, but from the physical toughness built by constant practice. Mental toughness also, in large part, results from practice. Any man who regularly meets and sur­passes the physical challenges that make up most of serious training concurrently builds mental tough­ness, the will to win that is the “secret” to winning a fight. But it’s harder to find that kind of toughness-building martial arts training outside of Korea, Ja­pan, or the Navy SEALS. Mr. Fly By Nite’s tae kwon do academy next door to Pizza Hut isn’t likely to teach toughness. Body type also may create problems for Ameri­cans when they try Oriental martial arts. If your par­ents came from East Asia, then karate and the like may work for you: you’re likely to possess the small stature, short limbs, and suppleness that allow kicks to hit hard and fast. How many modern Americans, however, raised on Wheaties and McDonald’s bur­gers are built like the typical Japanese? Small, slight Asians emphasize kicking in their unarmed combat because fighting with their feet is the only way they can hit hard; having lived without chairs all their lives, those Asians have the hip flexibility to kick ef­fectively. Americans, on the other hand, sit in La-Z-Boy recliners, and so have a harder time kicking. For a tall and long-armed man, the straight punches of a boxer should serve him well. If someone’s built thick and heavy, wrestling might be a better choice. People should work with what they were born with. If a guy is built like a westerner, he should probably fight most effectively with a “style” from the West. A final problem with modern martial arts for the streetfighter is the tendency to emphasize the art in­stead of the martial. The men who developed those “styles” centuries ago were warriors, and that’s why the military remains among the best sources for practical hand-to-hand training. Founders of the martial arts were also often killers: Chinese organ­ized crime still contains some of the best kung-fu masters alive. When warriors and killers trained, they trained to fight. But nowadays the Self-Esteem Academy at every other strip mall is a place for little Jennifer and Kelly to spend a few hours until Mommy arrives in her minivan. Those kids — the typical martial arts stu­dent in modern America — may learn self-discipline, build confidence, and gain a certain amount of fitness on their ways to black belts. But can they fight? I’ve known a handful of black belts whom I wouldn’t attempt to tackle with anything less than a 12-gauge. I’ve also known plenty of others whom I could take with a teaspoon. Face facts: a black belt used to mean that the man wearing it was hell in any back alley brawl, but nowadays handicapped people, old ladies, and kids wear them. But people who take ( most people!! ) just learn the patterns and get a belt, but they cannot fight so thus they get their false sence of self confidence. But someone who trains in a sport martial art, boxing, wrestling, judo, kick boxing, or whatever has practiced fighting and getting hit and taking pain. So who can really fight? This is partly an article from http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/SportingLife.html the main idea is from here and if you want the whole article read it, it's pretty informative.

well, no you see I read an article where Bruce got in a fight and he used Wing Chun the only one he knew and it lasted 20 minutes so he thought it should have only taken him a few punches ( by the way that fight was never revealed as a victory bruce and his wife said he won, the other guy and some people who saw it said he one, the other guy was a northen style master ) so he said it needed more kicks and throws and thus he went to work creating JKD a modified version of wing chun no matter what you call it.

.... you sicken me

DID YOU GO YET? KILL IT? OR MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ACCIDENT?

Life comes but once, fullfill yours, To Sai

Very inspirational. Dream Sai Dream Good luck It seems you have a tremendous will power and drive to move on, I envy you and so shall strive Seems karate womans quote The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. is fitting eh? I am a mountain I am a tall tree Ohhh, I am a swift wind Sweepin' the country I am a river Down in the valley Ohhh, I am a vision And I can see clearly If anybody asks u who I am Just stand up tall look 'em in the Face and say I'm that star up in the sky I'm that mountain peak up high I made it I'm the worlds greatest And I'm that little bit of hope When my backs against the ropes I can feel it mmm I'm the worlds greatest For Sai the believer! You've changed me Sai....

let us forget the game, now do any of you have any drills to improve your reflexes?

ya sparring is practicing against an opponent you can go full contact in some MA's like judo but others are to dangerous and either go slow mo or light contact or only certain contact point But you could spar in anything practically, with swords chess checkers cooking

Honor is a thing of the past except to the true martial artist. They were not just for fighting but a complete way of life.

Does anyone care about honor in martial arts like the old grand masters? Does it matter if you have any?