Jiggy9

still the second site i mentioned is very good - it has videos of the techniques, practice strategies and technique breakdowns (in english) - so I thouroughly recommend it.

Never the less...bombing the **** out of the world's poorest country is wrong.

Lol Kicker, but I said it first! so Ha

Lmao @ Taezee

I guess we'll just have to try really hard then Kicker! Congratulations and I hope you have a Good Bday Patrick - In advance, because i always forget these things.

Hello

Judo is fun, except sometimes youre head hurts

True, sorry i was just emphasising plainess - I have nothing against logo's.

I come bearing youre answer The Correct Spelling I too presume Is Harai- Goshi cos that is the closest thing there is to it. Anyways I'll Let you judge for yourself : I'm not sure if the images will come, If not just click on the link. DAMN itz not working. http://judoinfo.com/images/nauta/haraigo.gif http://judoinfo.com/haraigos.gif http://judoinfo.com/harigosh.jpg http://judoinfo.com/images/ejc/class13.jpg [ This Message was edited by: Jiggy9 on 2001-11-09 07:16 ]

Just scrounging the net, and found this site - which is amazing for all you Judo junkies....because it has all the moves animated. And even better for those who dont study Judo because they can pick out and learn the ones they want! http://judoinfo.com/techjudo.htm

I like the sound of that combo actually... Even better - Kickboxing and Judo I once studied at a place where they taught JKD and Judo - called it Kurgan Dojo

true true.. me also thinks the best self defense is actually never needing to have to defend youreself. [ This Message was edited by: Jiggy9 on 2001-11-09 05:35 ]

It's a dilemma that every martial artist faces : How do you beat someone who is bigger than you, stronger than you and has all the intention to use that advantage against you aggressively??

I dont know...i guess im just a night person

didnt big boss man from WWF use one! lol...have no clue bout them.

White, just plain white with no symbols or anything! Lol, simply because is symbolises purity, and truth, perfection. Something you are trying to achieve with youre art - perfection or pure expression of technique.It's not extravagant and everyone wears the same one so it helps you feel humble - lose youre ego and pride And I like the contrast between a white suit and a black belt hehehe

I've never trained in any school with music...the concept seems wierd. At home...i love it, just raises the energy level to another stage.

Agnus, I too believe that you have effective and ineffective techniques (in modern circumstances) within each art, but in a fight who choses which techniques are being used? You do...and therefore it doesnt matter what art youre practicing itz you who determines the outcome. I think a truly good martial artist should be take on tkd artists, karate artists, muay thai artists, kung fu artists, ju jitsu artists, boxers, wrestlers....artists from any art and be equally as effective. Even if you practice TKD or Karate you'll find gaps in youre fight style...you'll find that their are some moves from opponents you dont know what to do with, you'll find that some of youre most succesfull and effective moves will be easily neutralised by some opponents. A classic example would be Ninjitsu and Karate. Samurai warriors would keep the law in Japan in the time of the emperors, the Ninjitsu developed alot of their art to deal with Karate that the Samurai's used easily and effectively. So i think if you are rigid enough to stick to training in one style and one style only, you'll never reach youre potential as a fighter and you'll never be all that sucessful. But taking a head to head of TKD to Karate anyways : Both are Yang vs Yang : so no difference there. Karate was an integral part of TKD's early development, and you can see the similiarities between the arts - but if you think thier was an improvement made is totally up to you. I think maybe at the time TKD was made, it may have been better for the fight environment, but today/now in modern fight circumstances i think they are just as effective/ineffective as each other. In the time i studied TKD i found their was less stress on punches, sweeps e.t.c then In Karate (but i can't say that it is def like that) Now if you think that it makes alot of difference, that depends on you and youre personaly 'forte's' like Taezee said. So all in all, i dont think i can actually say which one is better...maybe it is a draw after all but - at the end of the day that doesnt really matter. Whats more important is what you do with the skills you learned, youre techniques are simply tools - what you sculpt is a different story. But you said you dont know all dat much bout Karate and what it's about... I recommend you read up on it, a book i really really suggest is : Karate - Do My way of life : Gichin Funakoshi But in essence he says that Karate is about training for life, all aspects, from physical fitness, self defence to discipline and training a healthy state of mind and lifestyle. But Karate is more then just about fighting, it's about life ; I guess that's something karate is known for.

I personally dont think you can say one art is the best or better then another. You simply can not compare them, because like a wise forum member once said, it's the person not the art in the fight that's more important. I think each art has itz advantages and disadvantages and no art can be perfectly suited for you. So you can never say which art is the best ...you might be able to say which art/arts are 'good' for you however.

Hello

Exactly, it's been practised and developed over the thousands of years to be more and more practical to the changing times...Im not saying rejecting those thousands of years of theory and technique, im saying : Continue to develop the art. It's been developed over the last three thousand years, so why stop developing it? And in a sense, that's exactly what Bruce Lee was doing... [ This Message was edited by: Jiggy9 on 2001-11-08 10:11 ]

I stumbled onto a pretty decent Nunchaku website with Videos and so on... http://members.tripod.com/%7EPGresh/nunchaku.htm The technique section is really good. oh and Kicker, that is Alex Levitas's Nunchaku page i was talking about earlier!

no worries rushman! let us know if you have any luck with the Korean ladies.. !

lol....Big up man. Just wondering, who has the most number of posts of this forum?? the most i've seen i think is 1500 - Kicker...I think Who is it?

Thats actually pretty intresting because my dojo has some very different rules, and winterkarate said the scoring system for his club is different too.. intresting....v.intresting