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or you can bare knuckle a punching bag.

so what if google tracks your ip. are you doing anything illegal? and what out there is considered illegal online? out of the millions and millions of hits google gets, im sure they dont recognize everyone and every site one goes to.

you need to move next door to neighbors who have a bag set up on their porch.

have you tried it? if you have, did it help?

I dont have contracts...they do. This was the only place in town I could afford. You might be able to afford more, I can't, so I take what I can get on my weak paycheck. It is a little mcdojo, and a little real. i saw signs of both.

Ill check that out today, and will let you know. Im interested myself to see what happens.

I enjoyed it at first, and still do the stretching part every day on my own. I love pushups and cardio training, and punching bags. Thought the legs could handle the kicking, but after 12 years of soccer, my legs can run, and thats about all they can do. My hips cant handle right round house kicks, my hips cant handle inside out kicks, my hips cant handle side kicks, and my knees hate round house and front kicks. i signed up for a year because that was cheapest, and i loved it at first.

i think ill be chalking it up to experience. things like this happen. o well. until i find an affordable boxing gym, ill be hanging out next door hitting the bag. nice chatting with you all. good luck in your training

Yea, the sign at the dojang says we are not supposed to quit, but i will not be continuing my martial arts after this one year contract is through. its murder on my knees. i dont think the instructors are the best either. i dont like painful knees. i really really dont. especially being 6'3", i have lankey legs. im tempted to just quit now. go back to boxing, something i enjoy. o well. i did sign up a year. whatever.

great line. I was thinking this the whole time. I hate the gym, and hate thinking I have to get big. Im happy with my routine right now. TKD, running up stairs at a garage downtown, going to the park to do chin ups, and a great chest workout at my neighbors house. Flat bench press, then out back to hit the punching bag. My chest always gets ripped after that. And it is all free!

ive gone from 4 times a week to two times a week. my bones just werent designed for TKD.

i guess some of us have different definitions of fun

then i guess there is only one other option EAT MORE

Im not about to say weights are worthless, because we all know that would just be wrong. But I was reading a fitness book by some karate master yesterday, oriental guy, and it was all about increasing strength. Quite a few of the exercises invloved this: moving really slow, and straining. For example- pretending there is a giant rock in front of you, and straining and pushing it away from you, slowly. Well, I went home and tried some of them, and I'll tell you, 10 minutes into it, I was dripping wet, and it was working! Has/does anyone else ever do these kinds of exercises?

read the golfing magazines and you hear about wood's and his workouts. juggle golf? what else does he have to juggle? the guy has a great workout plan, and is one tough cookie. who cares what he can bench. he has put on weight since he has started pro, and it hasnt been fat.

Eat more calories than you burn. Jogging 3-4 miles every day is a lot. Take some time off, relax. Give those calories a chance to settle.

6'5", 150...hmm, I was 6'2", 150, so I understand for the most part. You are 17 1/2 you said. In about 5-6 years, you might have to start watching what you eat. They weight slowly starts packing on and becomes harder to burn. Remember, Muscle burns fat, so maybe you need to take a month or two off, eat, relax, put on a few, ya know?

Are you cop or do you live in the hood or something?

I am genaki. now what show/comic book is this from?

I train with nunchukas because i want ladies to think im all that.

I own a pair of Joe Hess chucks, and a pair of wooden string chucks. I also own an Easton bat, two knives, one ax, one machete (my fav), and the weapon that has gotten me in the most trouble- my mouth.

Medicine balls rock. Nuff said.

Kev, I am guilty of the sin of Envy. Your dojo has scripture all over the walls? That is almost reason enough for me to just move now and join your dojo. I was worried at first about joining TKD, simply because I was ignorant to eastern religions, philosophies, traditions etc. But, ill have you know, all those fears have been debunked since I have joined. I pledged allegiance to the american flag all through school, christian, mind you, and here I show respect for the korean flag, where my MA originated. Would I choose Korea over Jesus, or anything absurd like that? No, of course not, but that isn't even a possible scenario. So, point being, I found nothing wrong with TKD, and that is coming from a borderline-funamentalist.

im interested in joining a jiu jitsu studio that is in the process of opening up as i speak. Im just worried about a couple of thing: 1. it is brazillian jui jitsu. what does this mean compared to reg jiu jitsu 2. im a tall lean guy, missing that low center of gravity that is advantageous to wrestlers, which will me an easy target with long weak limbs? is this ignorant speculation? 3.the ultimate fear is getting a dumb instructor and getting something broken because he didnt know what he was doing. A TKD instructor i have sometimes had us grappling one night, and I got put in a full nelson. I never grappled before, and was not told this was an illegal move conservatively speaking, the instructor never made the other guy release, and i had a sprained neck for about 2 weeks. Stupid instructors can be costly, and if my views are right, jui jitsu can be pretty intense with joint locks and submissions, etc. any advice for a maybe-beginner in jiu jitsu?

I need to start running again. Thanks for the inspiration