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Well Mike Tyson trained like a boxer...jumping rope, sparring, hitting the heavy and speed bags and probably some weightlifting. Mas Oyama was Korean so his workouts were probably alot of masochist type stuff...conditioning hands and feet and other traditional types of conditioning. I doubt marciano and dempsey did much rhythm training based on how they fight. Bill Wallace did Judo as well as Karate so he probably had an all around routine kick drills and so forth and so on. And I don't know who Kanazawa is.

Our first test at my TKD place basically they just run you through the form and some basic techniques to make sure you can do them on your own. At the HKD school I went to for awhile the first test I had there was basically the same but it took a little longer because you were grabbing and turning and all of that stuff. First tests might be nerve wracking but they aren't usually hard. Just concentrate and do the best you can.

Well people in Kenya run barefoot alot on dirt and it makes their soles really tough. I am not sure running on tarmac is a good idea though...sounds like it might cut the foot pretty easy, especially if its just regular road and not an indoor track. Any time you run barefoot on a flat surface you are pushing your feet and ankles abilities to handle the stress...so it might make them stronger, however, you might also end up with long term problems with your feet.

First off I would like to say I hesitated from replying to this post because I hate this statistic. Second someone has done research on street fights and the article was in Black Belt Magazine like 2 months ago. He had statistics for fights that go to the ground, 2 on 1 fights and so on and so forth. Okay now to what I have to say. If you consider all fights in which someone is accidently knocked over, or knocked out, or taken down you may be justified in thinking 90% end that way. However, most people who are trained are not going to get knocked down accidently, and are more likely to avoid being knocked out. In my personal experience the two most utilized techniques in a street fight are a hook punch and a simple tackle. Both of these are easily avoided if you know that there is a high probability they will be used. The problem most people have when thinking of defending against a tackle or shoot is that they want to knee or kick the person in the head. This is a bad idea. This puts you on one leg. If for any reason your striking limb is trapped your odds of being tipped over increase by a substantial amount. When avoiding a tackle or shoot and you do not want to go to the ground you are much better off using your feet to maneuver and your hands to strike and/or fend off the attacker. My legs do not go very high so I usually only kick to the body and not the head anyhow, however, in a street altercation you shouldn't kick higher than the torso anyway. Good times to use kicks to the torso are when being punched. For instance, someone punches to your head, you step to the outside and pull their arm hard will performing a round kick to the stomach. Otherwise best bets for kicking in a street fight are to the knees, groin, instep, and the front/inside of the shin. Another fallacy I see is that because someone CAN kick high they CAN'T kick low. Which is absurd. If you can kick to waist height or higher with power you will be that much more devastating below the belt, as well as having even more targets to shoot for. Also, remember that the opposing hand or objects such as chairs, walls, and things like canes can all be used for a second point of balance. The most important thing overall in a self defense situation is not whether or not most fights go to the ground but your plan for getting off the ground should you end up there. Various kicks will work to keep an attacker at bay while you retain your feet such as side kick, front kick and front thrust kick. Also, if the person is clinching or mounting you while on the ground do not for get to poke eyes, grab testicles, break their fingers and strike to their throat. Even if you are someone who has extensive experience with fighting on the ground your goal should be to get back to your feet as it is very hard to run away while rolling around on the ground. Just my 2 cents...er 200 dollars worth.

As I said before the worlds not made of Clones.

I have heard Dit Da Jow works well on injuries.

This doesn't directly answer your question, however, first things first. If you aren't going to move no need to worry about finding a school. If you do move then worry about it. There's all sorts of things you could work out with an instructor i.e. once a week private instruction, long distance learning and so forth.

Here's the fault in your logic Mart...The world is not made up of clones. There may be only one guy out there that can do a triple wrist bend throw, if no one else can do it but he does it as second nature it makes it perfect for him. So even if you took clones of someone else and it never worked for them that doesn't negate the effectiveness of the art for him.

Hapkido practitioners dont usually spar due to the fact that grappling at full speed and power without knowing what to expect can end up in severe injuries...some do do it however after black belt.

I read an article by Hee Il Cho once on this subject. If your knees can take it one exercise that will really help you is to squat real low and then jump as high as you can. Do this over and over. I am very heavy so I cant do most of the really hard spin kicks, however, having strong stomach muscles will allow you to whip your body around much faster. For this simple sit-ups will work. I prefer Bicycle Crunches, where the elbow of each arm is brought to the opposing knee in turn as you raise the knee towards your chest. Just remember to lift with your stomach and not to pull on the back of your head with your hands.

I think alot of it comes down to not being brave enough to say the same things in person you can get away with anonymously online. The vaunted Web Warriors as it were. I have my own opinions on certain styles and those opinions I give out freely online, however, when I meet someone from another style I usually base more on the person and listen to what they have to say.

At my schools at least: American TKD White Yellow Green Purple Blue Red Brown Brown w/Black Stripe Black Sin Moo Hapkido White Green Blue Red Brown Black

Well, the first thing is is that I beleive Aikijujutsu has striking in it. Secondly it probably depends more on the fighter than the style...i.e. a crappy striker will lose to a better grappler and vice versa. Thirdly it comes down to a paper~rock~scissors situation. What I mean by that is like this...if a guy walks up to you like hes going to grab you and you break his kneecap you win, but if you go to kick him and he grabs your leg and breaks it he wins, but if as he grabs your leg you poke his eyes out you win...and so on and so forth.

The american team also had Taekwondo practitioners on it...that film has some good sport fight scenes, as you may notice most styles tend to run together when they fight. Of course for Korean Arts in real situations...there are all the Chuck Norris movies, and the very dull IMHO Billy Jack films with Hapkido GM Bong Soo Han.

From what I have heard John Pellegrini got a Dan ranking in some form of Hapkido and then broke off and claimed to invent his own style, thereby becoming a 10th Dan. So its probably alot like regular Hapkido. There are two schools that Pellegrinis website lists in CA...one is in Murrieta and one is in Seaside, so I don't know if any of those is near you. Barring that I'm sure there are IHF, WHF or even Sin Moo schools near you somewhere.

What techniques are they breaking with jazz? English names please. You have to remember too they they arent going to make you do a flying split kick break to two cinder blocks your first time out. They will push you a little more each time. As to hitting the board wrong well if you can hit a pad correctly without hurting yourself most likely you will hit the board properly as well. As Doug said just concentrate, keep the technique clean, and follow through.

Breaking for the most part is easy some objects or multiple objects you might need to condition your hands and feet for however most breaks especially with a side kick are not difficult.

Isn't the official ITF the one located in Vienna? And shouldn't the one with the best claim not be the son of the founder but rather the one that has the most remaining administration of the original organization?

I would just like to add my $1.50 worth. Studies have shown that wearing hand and foot pads does not to any meritable degree lessen the transfer of impact. In other words, whoever is wearing the pads is the one protected. If you arent wearing head gear and you get punched by someone that is wearing a glove you are indeed taking the brunt of that hit. The only thing that would be different with getting hit with a glove or footpad would be that you would be less likely to get a cut from a knuckle.

Actually you can move from front stance to front stand with out standing up however it takes alot more strength in your legs. Basically you just need to pick up one of your legs quickly without moving the other an inch and pivoting. This may not eliminate the sine wave effect completely but it will get it down to a speed bump.

Howdy all, I don't usually post in this category but I was wondering if anyone knows of any places online that I could learn Kobudo katas off of. Sai, Tonfa, Bo, Nunchaku, and Kama being the ones I'm interested in. Thanks all!

Well we do the chang hon forms the old way at my school no bounce, however, I think what they are thinking of is like in the case of a Low Block. If you start high and sink your whole body weight into it it will be more effective than simply using your arm. Its kind of like doing an uppercut by just twisting your hips, the wrong way, or by bending your legs and putting some body weight behind it, the right way. You create an upward wave which increases the amount of impact. Bretty is right also about the equation. In physics that works however when you are talking about hitting someone the equation should read F/m=a. Or the amount of force you use to move your arm(m) equals how fast it travels(a). Which in turn increases the impact.

Well theres a couple of different styles... Sin Moo HKD Combat HKD WHF or IHF HKD On those two I'm not sure if they are actually different or if they are just different federations. Also I'm not sure of the WHF if thats even an org but I thought it was. I have heard some bad things about combat HKD and I don't like John Pellegrini personally, but it may be an ok art. I personally take Sin Moo HKD and I like it. Its definitely hardcore. The founder, Ji Han Jae, studied under the found of Hapkido and also fought Bruce Lee in the movie Game of Death. He added some nice kicks to the regular hapkido curriculum.

The problem with extending your stomach to breath is when you get kicked you have no protection for your torso. I can almost guarantee if you extend your stomach as someone does a hard side kick into it you will get knocked out.

I would just like to interject that before the current crisis with North Korea a poll released on CNN said that most South Koreans were in favor of reunification with the North. I think Chois communist politics or not are regardless. It is the anti Japanese sentiment that led to the various "korean born" histories of tkd.