SBN Doug

Karate should be an interesting change from Aikido.

Excellent! Everyone should continue educating themselves throughout their lives. In the beginning to be sure you have the preparation and tools to succeed. Later, to keep the mind sharp and never fall into a knowledge rut. I'm finally going to start working on a foreign language, but I can't decide which one to start.

I've never understood that myself. We don't train very often in it, but we do go as much as 5 v 1 at times. As a matter of fact, my next to last test for 3rd we spent about 45 minutes rotating turns in the center of 5 v 1 and 3 v 1. It wasn't full contact, but more about positioning, movement around attackers to keep from getting pinned, keeping the majority of them at bay by keeping the one you've engaged between you, etc.

If I had a bench, I'd like it best (because I hate push-ups). Otherwise, curls would be next. I do enough low stance traning for my legs.

I agree with bushido, except I would watch 2-3 classes each. At least 2 in different parts of the week. Many schools do different workouts on a Mon/Wed or Tue/Thur basis, and you may get to see more of what they are practicing this way. Personally, I like the Hapkido better. But that's because I like all the standing grappling (joint locks/breaks, pressure points, etc.). We dabble in JJ type floor work, but I have no idea what the Kempo class will be like. So definately watch a couple.

Thanks, and to all yours as well.

Can I hear and Amen, bother? AMEN!!!

A generic karate/TKD hybrid for about 6 months in high school. Kuk Sool Won for around 13 or 14 years now (I stopped counting)

Same here. My wife just heard her Grandfather past away. And now this morning I get an e-mail that my friend I used to work with has a huge melanoma in his brain. This too shall pass.

Wildcard game, and yes it was Reich. It was actually played on one of the ESPN channels Tuesday night. I watched up until the interception at the beginning of the second half, then turned to an NFL network replay of the Bears/ Vikings game. Apparently Reich did a similar comback in his senior year of college (darn him). Of course, playing prevent defense for the entire second half didn't help either.

Once upon a time...when they blew the largest lead in history. We hated to see the Oilers go, but didn't mind seeing Bud Adams (owner) leave one bit.

Tight or not, a proper trap won't be easy to escape. Now if it's a simple grab, then perhaps your aerial maneuver will work. But I'm a little too old to take that option. I'll go with the simple escape, and recover in defense posture.

Sorry, I just realized this thread was here. Yeah, I really enjoyed week one with the Chiefs.

What type of floor do you train on?

Hmmm, I can see using this motion to kick with the free leg, or to do as I described and push off the "gabber" to escape, but I can't see how you would intend to "kick again with the leg that was trapped" until you have somehow broken the trap.

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Quite true. In the last tournament, a guy grabbed my leg after I had made contact with his head. Now, it should be noted that since we focus on control I only taped his head or it would have been much harder for him to catch it. And technically, the rules say no trapping so he actually did this accidentally (though I don't like that rule). I just pivoted 180, and yanked my leg out as I went into a front roll away from him. A leg escape we used to train in wayyyy back in my under black days.

Ahh, okay that make more sense. I couldn't access the links, so I was still in the dark about what this was. We do train in some minor acrobatics for potential attack avoidance/escape. Also a little bit of wall walking for the same application. But we really haven't trained in tactical retreats or maneuvering around our environment to make a safe withdrawal.

This is much the same in Kuk Sool Won. As a matter of fact, I have heard many people say they see a lot of kung fu influence in KSW. We train in soft deflections of strikes into near misses, so we are immediately in close for a counter. Most of our strikes are linear, but we spend a very high percentage of training in standing grappling techniques. Not to split off into the multiple attacker piece again, but we typically don't start training in defense of multiple attackers until after black belt level (if not second degree). As to the definition, I always generalized linear (or hard) to be karate and TKD type arts, and circular (or soft) to be Aikido & Judo type arts. I never really saw one as having an advantage over the other. Mainly (like someone else said) whichever fits the person best.

I actually find it easier to fake a front snap, pull back, and transition to an outside cresent kick to the head. It's actually one of my favorite combinations, and got me third place in sparing at our last would tourneyment.

There's your problem. Classic

Ah, good point. All the under-belts are also encouraged to attend. Even more so as they approach the time when they will begin testing there as well.

Ours are open, but the audience stays back until the actual ceremony (partially because we are wielding swords at times). Cameras and camcorders are allowed, but they may not be for the Master's demonstrations at the end of the world tournament.