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hey, the first link doesn't work anymore. anyone have another one? i wanna see i wanna see

the website doesn't work.

why worry about the westerner boxing? muay thai fighters train in everything, hands, elbows, legs. i think the trademark muay thai moves are leg kicks and elbows... why would a really good muay thai fighter think "even in a boxing match against a westerner i would win" i know y'all are just talking about it, i mean no offense. just my opinion. oh, and muay thai fighters are TOUGH. those guys from thailand and laos are SMALL compared to most fighters and they can take soooooo much more than anyone else i've seen in the martial arts. (on average)

END OF A POOL QUE?! i never thought of that... really? wow... my legs are in OK shape... nothing any of you guys would consider spectacular. well... about the hitting yourself... i've done that with my shins (oh, and to the guy who was asking about those conditioning sticks. my response to that "a stick is a stick") but i've done the conditioning with strikes to my shins, what i was asking about was targeting mainly the outside of my thighs. y'know, when someone deadlegs u by kneeing you in the side of the leg. was wondering if there was anything y'all did to develop that, but yeah... so you guys think repetition is the best way for that? just getting kicked in the legs as much as possible... man... hardcore.

hey guys, leg kicks... hurt. was wondering what you guys used to condition the legs. my shins are fine. i can take a lot of abuse knee down... its knee up that i'm kinda confused about. besides just getting kicked there a lot, what do u all think is the best way to make yourself tougher in the hip/thigh area. thanks a lot.

just wondering if there's anyone, or if anyone knows of any schools in that area.

howdy, was wondering if there were any people on this website that live in the dallas/ft.worth area.

impossible?! sorry, i just got to this thread today. well, i saw the video with my own two eyes, and they showed it in slow motion. it was seven. three scissor kicks (like the guy up there said), then one side at the end. Korean Tigers. go buy their demo tape. and eat your words while you're at it.

cool. thanks

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ninjutsu is cool. but... its definitly not what movies make it out to be. its a very practical art and very quick. elimination of excess movement and being quiet in general... pretty cool stuff. ninjas rock.

i thought the ninja hand seals represented the same animals as in the chinese zodiac.

this is gonna sound kinda weird. but i used to have really bad hip problems back when i used to study tae kwon do. my grand master studied qi gong extensively (weird huh... tae kwon do grand master studying chinese healing arts) but anyways... i told him what was wrong and he looked at me, told me to close my eyes and waved his hand around my chest a few times. he said that i had a lot of tension in my chest area, which was causing my lower body to be off balance... hence the bad hips. he then told me to close my eyes again and waved his hands around pretty quickly (from what i felt) in front of my chest. no touching tho... he put his hand on my wrist once, that's about it... then he told me to kick... and i swear i'm not lying... the pain was gone. this was pain that was bothering me for MONTHS... afterwards, he hooked me up with a couple of free accupuncture sessions (that all made me very sore from head to toe) but yeah... the pain went away. permanently. pretty awesome stuff if you ask me.

i thought it was fa jing. and i thought it wasn't iron palms that dealt with internal damage, i thought it was poison palms. maybe its the same thing. i don't know very much. but yeah. good stuff.

oh, its also called jin in some cases.

jing is basically the power that kung fu gets its strength from. if you look at kung fu stylists, its pretty hard to actually see their power. whereas, karate practitioners, its very easy to see their power. jing is pretty much the path your energy takes from the root (your feet), to your weapon (your hands). i learned this concept in class. but only a concept. don't think for a second that i've grasped it. its soooooooo complex. jing follows a certain pattern tho. i think if you check out any kung fu school (try northern style, or a more internal art form. not something like wing chun) you'll be able to find an instructor who could explain it to you. there are seminars about it too. there was one recently in my area. just keep your eyes open.

oh, i didn't drop out of college btw. just to let y'all know.

i was looking forward to death until not too long ago. i think what made me want to stick around was me coming to grips with the fact that there are a lot of things i'm not going to be able to achieve. and the "you can make any dream come true" thing was what was really making me feel worthless. because there were a lot of things i failed at. besides a few karate tournaments, there wasn't really much i accomplished. and academically i'm not the brightest. so a couple of weeks ago... i accepted my fate, and agreed with life that martial arts was where my talents are... and pursuing a prestigious degree (i'm attempting a dr. in pharmacology) is probably not something i'm going to accomplish. i got a job at a local video game store, started taking my training seriously, and told my fiancee that i'm probably not going to be the richest person on the planet, but i'm going to make an attempt at happiness my own way. so i guess now, in a way i've learned to be aware of death. because now i know what i have to lose.

y'know... i stuck with striking arts because i'm not comfortable in that kinda distance. grappling just seemed messy to me. maybe that's the point i guess... but anyways. one thing that wasn't taken into consideration (i'm not sure... maybe it was and i missed it) is that the UFC, NHB fighters spend A LOT of time on strength training. lifting weights etc... which adds a lot to brute strength. most kung fu practicioners don't do that. true, they can create a lot of power with jing and other techniques, but physics speaks for itself. i think its really hard to determine what's effective and what's not because it's so important to take the individual into consideration. and even then its hard to generalize because you get into discussions about who was the best in what. there's a lot of restrictions in the UFC. and muay thai and brazilian jiu jitsu feed off of those rules and are really good at using them to an advantage. i think those two styles are awesome. VERY powerful styles. but it's kinda hard to classify them as arts. anyways, there's my two cents.

yeah man... that grinder looks hard core. we don't do any dummy work in mantis. and yeah... i think its sad too how a lot of people thing every style is effective. but man... i would type more, but i can't get that image of a concrete pillar with iron arms out of my head... that is some awesome stuffs... props... must have some killer arms.

i study chi xing tong long. fun stuff.

i think northern and southern depends on the individual. just like any other martial arts. depends on your build, etc. some styles work for some people, some styles don't. its like the difference between karate and tae kwon do. one's hard and pretty linear, whereas the other is more flashy. but... you can't say one's better than the other because it all depends on the situation. i think if someone's more intent on fighting practicality... yeah... i'd say southern styles are probably more PRACTICAL in that sense. there's not as much excess motion. heh... wing chun is about as practical as it gets i think. there's ZERO flash, and ZERO excess. just one quick block, and one straight punch. i study mantis, and we work a lot with spirals. i enjoy it more tho, cuz i'm more comfortable fighting this way than straight line. anyways... its two in the morning and i'm rambling. hope you guys have a good halloween.

those uniforms are awesome.

wing chun is great. btw. that wingchuninteractive page is really neat. that'd be cool if they had something similar for other styles of kung fu. just to see the differences.