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Well certainly the knee must be preserved but I was strictly speaking to the foot position bearing on the hip position. I'm not saying do or don't turn the foot out when you turn your hips I'm saying whatever that final position of the hips is that is where the leg will have to be positioned to comfortably support it. Whatever leg position that takes. In this case I am assuming that the person has the ability to keep their upper and lower legs in line. Yes, if you try to raise your legs straight to the side the trocanters on the outside of the upper femur will hit the pelvis and you will get a lot of pain. That is of course unless you lean around, e.g. basically doing a side split while standing.

Hey I am a 300+ pound guy that's still got the standard Macho gi he got on day one. Every once in awhile I will get a small tear that I need to sew up but considering I've been kicked, punched, and thrown around in it for 8 plus years that's not too bad.

I agree with elshaft. The BB outweighed the guy in the civvies by about 100 pounds. Additionally, while the lighter guys kicks were ok it seemed like he maybe got a lot of those moves from movies. Who stops in the middle of the fight to make motions with their arms like that. Additionally, at one point the guy says hes not a fighter. Which coming from a discipline whose main purpose is to teach fighting that was a little odd. Made me think they brought in this guy who learned MA from a Bruce Lee movie and then beat him up. And even then the skinny guy knocked the BB down once. Furthermore, the skinny guy verbally surrenders several times to the BB and the BB ends up stomping on his head while he's unconscious on the ground. I can't imagine a school worth is salt no matter how tough it is condoning that behavior.

Well Sensei you proved my point. The hips need to roll over...or however they need to be for your particular style...the hips will determine where your foot points. That's why I said I think most teachers place the focus on the wrong thing. The placement of the foot is not as important as the placement of the hips even though the foot usually pivots prior to the hips. For instance, lets say I were to do the kick your way. I get my hips in proper position but because of some physiological issue I cannot turn my foot the full 180 or, on the other hand, has to turn past 180 as is the case with one of my legs. My hips are in the proper position but my foot is not at 180. This means that the hips are the more relevant metric rather than the foot. Now you can always say MOST people end up at 180 or 90 depending on the style..but hips and results may vary and so you should do what achieves the effect (hips turned into the kick) and feels comfortable. I think this is why so many people complain of pain in the hips when kicking. Sure you could have bad hips...but more likely your just not positioned right, and it doesn't take a lot either way to get pain.

I had always heard Mas Oyama's real name was Yung I Choi. Perhaps that is wrong. Here's one, a blood groove is misnamed. The groove is to lighten the sword while maintaining strength not to allow you to remove it from the suction of the body. Another is the first site of martial arts in a big budget American film was James Cagney doing Judo in Blood on the Sun.

Most important stretching you can do is on your hamstrings. Only split you really need is the front split. If you feel pressure on your tendons rather than the muscles you need to bend the leg then lean further over and restraighten the leg. This will put the pressure back on the muscle.

You can do both round and side kicks with the base foot perpendicular or facing away from the opponent. The difference is in how your hips are positioned. If you try to mix the two you will get pain in your hips. Also, hip position is commonly ignored, incorrectly, when teaching most of these kicks. If you are someone whose legs are not perfectly straight you may have to adjust where your foot is. For instance, one of my legs twists on the way down so one foot points slightly more outward while at rest than the other. This means in a fully rotated round or side kick the foot is actually pointing 200 degrees or so away from the opponent. The upshot is the hips are what are important not the foot.

No an armbar is breaking the elbow by hyperextending the arm. If you are breaking the shoulder that is from doing a shoulder lock.

Yes I can see the knot on his forearm but from what I've read of his bio and other sources outside of Joe Rogan there is no backup for that statement. What they do say is that the arm was broken by a kick from Edsen Peradao, the same fight in which Forrest knocked him out with his other hand. So once again, there doesn't seem to be any verification for an armbar break.

An armbar is a hyperextension of the elbow by definition. If you are breaking anything else in the process its an armbar plus something else. Its not wrong to break more than one joint at a time, its just not an armbar.

If you dislocate someones shoulder with an armbar methinks you are doing something wrong.

Hey all, I have recently heard that Forrest Griffin once let someone break his arm via an arm bar so that he could go on to win the fight. Unfortunately, I have not been able to verify this anywhere. Joe Rogan mentioned this during one of the Ultimate fighter finales but I am wondering about the veracity of the statement now. The few mentions I have seen that talk about Forrest Griffin getting a broken arm were against a guy named Edson Peredao. I've seen the video of the fight and no where did they even really grapple and the supposed break to his arm from a punch isn't even visible. Does anyone know if indeed he did get it broken from an armbar and if so who his opponent was? Thanks.

You know bushido it really does depend on who's teaching it. Choi even changed some stuff in his own forms. His original book has the forms done karate style. Now they are done with the sine wave. My original tkd school taught some korean forms and some shotokan forms none of which matched perfectly to the originals. The school I'm at now teaches the original version of Chung Bong 6 when almost all of the other schools in the area teach a modified version.

The point of the restraining order is to get on record the fact that he has threatened the person. And when dealing with people that say they are going to kill you and show signs of physical violence I think it would be much wiser to report it than to try to deal with it yourself.

Restraining order is step one. If someone threatens to kill you it only takes once for them to follow through. But at least the police will have them on record.

That would be Philip Rhee, I don't know about his competition stats though. As to the karate thing thats not surprising as karate for a long time was a catch all term for many striking arts and is still used today for some taekwondo schools.

Thats cause one of the best characters, played by Chris Penn RIP, gets killed right off the bat in the second one. I would like to know what form of sparring they used for the competition in the first one. The were dressed like they would be for olympic, except for no head gear, but they fought like it was traditional or regular full contact.

Thanks for the replies.

Here is a tip I got from the highest ranked Ji Do Kwan TKD guy in the US. He said remember that front kicks require flexibility in the kicking leg. Side kicks require flexibility in the base leg. To see proof of this try doing some easy rising front kicks, then do rising side kicks.

Well those are great arts, together or apart. As to will it benefit you if you practice enough, yes it will. In theory if you only knew one technique but practiced it 100 times a day from different angles and to different attacks you would still be ok. Crowding can be a pain but I wouldn't switch to a school just because of smaller class sizes. I went to one HKD school where there were two instructors and two students, including myself, and I was constantly getting hurt there and trying to accomplish things that maybe were doable but might not be prudent for someone of my girth. I finally realized between their demanding regimen and the natural tendency of people to leave martial arts training anyway this was why the class sizes were so small. And, therefore, demonstrated a weakness in their teaching rather than a benefit.

Well, you should know just in general how far away from something you need to be to hit it by now. Just step like a half step closer to your first target. I would suggest having people hold something for you so you can practice setting up your holders before the tournament, this way you will know exactly where to position them when the time comes.

You can always see if a company will do a mix and match for you. Give you a size 6 bottom and a size 5 top or something like that.

Not to hijak the post or anything but thats pretty petty that they wouldn't let you compete cause you don't have the right dobok. Also you can take a look at Century Custom and see if they can make you one in a larger size. The site shows alot of loud designs but it does say you can get whatever you want to custom fit...however their idea of custom may not be a normal persons idea of custom. This is the link http://www.centurycustom.com As another option you can get the largest uniform a company makes in the style required and take it to a tailer and have him let it out for you.

Does anyone know of a website that might have a video demonstrating dynamic stretching? I am trying to see exactly what the difference is between dynamic and ballistic. Thanks.

Well Choi's original book and I'm sure his encyclopedia and CD-ROM both tell the meanings of the patterns. As to the application part I'm not sure.