Cybren

Riveting review, NightOwl

Honestly I think someone should call this guy out. It seems at best ridiculously boastful and ineffective (and somewhat unnecessary. No forms or sparring? Soooo its only function is exercise or beating people up?), and at worst something that will get someone seriously hurt trying to defend themselves from an armed attacker.

Wow, that was interesting. One of them got knocked out and the other blew a knee.

Punches to the chest can score, it's just... they don't because you have to generate a shocking tremor or whatever, and they're usually wearing a thick pad designed to prevent that.[/i]

I would be interested in seeing the direction they take on portraying TKD's history. They'll probably go the same route they went with the other episodes: Embellish the ancient history and play up the various legends (without necessarily verifying them), and then give an accurate description of the recent/actual history.

It's speed chess. A 12 minute clock. use up all your time and you lose. Also, you will receive a warning if you don't make a move at all in the chess round, and if you get two such warnings you are disqualified.

so technically, "ain't" is a real word and is grammatically correct? No. It's slang... incorrect, but people use it. Same goes for anything. Just because a person does it doesn't make it right, just means it works for said person. *cough* http://m-w.com/dictionary/ain't Webster says it's aight

I was always taught that a parry and block were two different things: A block intercepts a strike, knocks it aside, or at the very least puts something between your face and the other guys fist. A parry is supposed to guide th attack to just miss. Of course that's easier said then done.

We have the whole set of these at my school and as I was looking up ones to buy myself I notice that they're pretty expensive. Shopping around I found a few cheaper ones these for example. (that site has the century ones cheaper too, actually). Is there any word on the general quality of these? how many breaks could I expect to get out of them? But I mean, $60 a board? I could get 40 boards for that!

I would suggest not, but I value not having carpel tunnel.

woah woah woah. Be careful using body-weights. You can seriously injure yourself. if you even think about that route make sure to take it slow and easy and don't do your techniques hard.

sample size is too small. And did they seriously only let them do one strike at the machine? This isn't bad science, it's anti-science

It's certainly a different sort of martial arts, but i think the choreography will hide her real technique. She's "slow" because she wants to be seen. It's a demonstration.

Maybe the instructor wanted you to be stable financially and focus more on that before spending time doing something like martial arts.

You could probably try the SCA or other local bauffer/what have you clubs