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If you don't "Randori" in jiu-jitsu what do you do? Just learn moves all practice? We warm up, do exercises like escape movement drills, and then mix up rolling (randori-ing) with learning new moves for the rest of the practice in about a 4:1 time ratio.

Forgive my lack of japanese knowledge, but waht does Randori mean anyway>

A random thought from my paintball playing days- companies will be much more willing to shell out money if you have some awards to show them. Make any past tournaments you've won/placed in a part of your sales pitch. If nothing else, make sure they know how mayn people are going to see you compete, etc. You could always offer them a billboard spot on your gi too

Wow, and now I'm a yellow belt poster. That was almost as fast as my first TKD promotion.

I originally joined a TKD club at school, but after about 6 months I was sick of the flowery moves and modern dance forms watering down what decent techniques there were. I had a chance meeting with some brazillian jiu-jitsu guys who gathered in the same building to roll, joined in and loved it. When I went home I found a gracie jiu-jitsu school in my area, and signed up. Now I have an official Royce Gracie Jiu-Jitsu card in my wallet right behind my library card, but more importantly I found an art that has the practicality that I wanted.

You absolutely need a partner. Books can definately help you out. My two favorites are the Master Text which you can buy from http://www.jiu-jitsu.net/ which is an EXCELLENT resource. I keep this book in my gear bag so if I'm having any particular trouble with something I can look it up. This one HUGE book really does a great job covering all different parts of jiu-jitsu, with gi, without gi, and vale tudo. I can't recommend it highly enough. The book "Passing the Guard" is also a great one. Its right here http://enotalone.com/books/0972109757.html Its more of a specialized resource, but passing the guard is such a huge part of the game I thought it was well worth the twenty something dollars. The first time I flipped through it I was grinning ear to ear when I saw that there was something like 8 variations on the scissors pass. There are also sections on countering different guard submissions. Supposedly the authors will be coming out with addional books on the other parts of the game, and I'll be first in line to buy them.

Which is why you keep your hands up. We have this traditional jiu-jitsu guy at my university who shows up at our meetings occasionally. When he gets on the bag he throws punches and elbows that sound like a machine gun (rapid). However, when we spar he's great to take down because he still only gets 0-2 shots in (when I shoot) and he puts so much emphasis on speed, they're basically kisses.

Do you mean martial arts school or university school? My university would shell out some major bucks for our club to go to tournaments in other cities. They'd usually give us money for hotel rooms, provide big vans for transportation, and we'd end up having enough school funds left over to get pizza a couple times or defray some of the entry cost for everyone.

I wouldn't bother with breaking on a regular basis. I think its more of a "look what I can do" skill than anything else. When I was forced to break I'd do the stuff that would minimize unnecessary damage to my limbs. Through thick vertical stuff palm heels work well, through thinner stuff I liked to do ridge hands for a couple extra style points. When striking downwards through wood I'd use a karate chop style strike (isn't it terrible that I dont know exactly what its called?) a knife hadn or something, because it was less painful than a hammer fist, less slappy. Downward through concrete I use a palm heel. I never tried it with more than one concrete block though.

Why would you want to start from nothing when there's a ton of useful information available everywhere for you to harvest? Even Jeet Kune Do is a collection of moves from different sources. Its not all something that Bruce Lee just made up.

Hehe... true. How's that kickboxing class going?

Which may be just what you want. Either way, they cant throw flurries of punches from the clinch.

*cough*

Clinch and take down.

You'll probably be interested in the MMA career of a fighter named "Vitor Belfort." Specifically how he beats his opponent in UFC Brazil .

How about "martial art = fighting style." Even some rediculous kung-fu is based on fighting.

I'm gonna go with the first one.

It might've been one of those demos done on the freestyle gymnastics floor with the springs in it.

Wait... here we go. This is before and after the head break. Before: http://lordxud.no-ip.com/mumac/pictures/arnold%20demos/Brick%20Breaking%205.jpg After: http://lordxud.no-ip.com/mumac/pictures/arnold%20demos/Brick%20Breaking%206.jpg My head hurts thinking about it.

We went to the Arnold Classic this year (Named after the current governor of California) and some dude set a world record ripping a bunch of phone books in half in a minute, or some comperable time period. I have some pics, but they're unresized and HUGE. Before: http://lordxud.no-ip.com/mumac/pictures/arnold%20demos/Brick%20Breaking.jpg during/after: http://lordxud.no-ip.com/mumac/pictures/arnold%20demos/Brick%20Breaking%203.jpg You can see the phone books... the funny part is if you look to the right of their little ring enclosure you can see about 6 big red bricks up high with a wooden platform next to them. The "leader" guy stood on the wooden platform, gave a highly emotional (kids dont do drugs if you want to be successful like us) speech, then broke the 6 bricks with his FOREHEAD! Yah kids... be like us, don't (don't?) do drugs like us, and you too can smash your head into stuff.

Sounds like a really determined attacker...

seven kicks all in the air that is impossible for a human. that was just stupid. He meant three scissors kicks (two kicks at once) plus a side kick. So 2+2+2+1.

It also depends on the art. Grappling sparring is basically the real thing. I go full out, up until the moment that I realize I'm about to get my arm broken then I tap... When I point spar (striking) I realize that combat isn't being simulated nearly as well. I think if I had to get in a real fight, my grappling would adapt to dealing with real strikes better than my striking would. As far as the overall value of point sparring... everything you do may have SOME value, but some stuff is definately more valuable than others. I think full contact sparring helps me the most, but I certainly can't do it all the time. So I do complementing things like pad work, and that leads to point sparring becaue the other people holding pads want to do that next...

How about you go find a definition of "circular logic" and have a read.

AnonymousCoward said that the steps were a "sweep to open up your opponent", and so you could "raise your centre of gravity so that you can drop it when you strike". How is either of those so? Sasori_te didn't support either of AnonymousCoward's arguents, he just added two of his own. Why not practice it like you're going to perform it? Why shift your weight when striking? Wouldn't it be more "efficient" to push off with your back leg than to bring it forward with your hand? Sorry if I offended you, that was my way of asking, I guess. You shouldn't get insulted when you make statements that require a deal of explanation like "there is no wasted movement in forms" and people question you.