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If you are starting on Karate, try also to train a grapeling art, like Judo or Jujitso. Dont go to Aikido, i think you are to young for it, and the non violence spirit will frustate you. You will thank yourself 3 years from now from atending grapling lessons, once you begin to blend striking with throws in karate in your daily randory.

Yes, its a problem expecialy against less experienced people who are very agressive fighters. As long as it does not hurts them they will not acknolage it. When this happens, what i prefer to do i to totaly outclass them and move out of line and do a painfull technik, like punch the floating ribs. OR sweep/grab them and drop them on the floor. There is no way to stay the same after you move to their back and floor them ending up with a neck/arm lock. This is also a problem with front kicks. Most front kicks where i train will land (9/10) because most just chose to ignore/absorb them as they hit the lower abdomen section and cause no pain. But people forget that a front kick is not meant for that section but to the Genital area. And i doubt many would absorve a kick to the genital area. On full contact, i personaly never tryed it. But i already get hurt enuff from normal randory to enter a full contact training. I probably would need to rest 2 weeks after eatch bout. And i personaly have a thing with gloves. I totaly hate them. You cannot punch straight, or defend correctly with them and they make it easyer to have your hands sweep by others. They also resctrict a lot of throws at least for me.

Goju ryu also emphasis a bit on Breating. And on enduring blows. Where on competition you dodge weave and parry, in the more tradition Goju sparing you recive/endure the blow or Parry/Block. Like steping into a incoming punch, and contracting and makings special breathing to endure it. Something i fail misserably . But then again this is High level stuff brown belt +. There are also lots of locks and throws. Not so mutch as in Aikido flow throws, but more like power throws/grabs. Some say Aikido took some thecknicks from GoJu. I always saw GoJu as a style designed to bulky people or with avobe average body structure. Liek the people who tend to practice Judo. But i never seen Shotokan training in action. Also there is lot of close quarters fighting, with sweaping, grab/traping of menber and lifting to drop on ground and lock arms or knee drop/force on neck. SO main thing is Goju is Close quarter, breating/body condicioning for takign blows. Other than that, you can get in most stuff from other styles, as at a certain level you start to find out what works and what does not works for you. For example there are certain thecknick that i hardly can make work even in aranged practice, but other that fly like eagles even in Randory/combat even when my mates cannot make them work. Fighting is more a person thing and less of a style thing than people imagine.

Question · What is XMA? Answer · What is XMA? XMA was conceived by seven-time National and seven-time World Forms & Weapons Champion, Mike “Chat” Chaturantabut, one of the most successful and experienced tournament competitors in the history of the sport. As one of the pioneers of Sport Karate, Chat has combined the styles and philosophies of several athletic and artistic disciplines into the only step-by-step training system that is backed by medical science and includes all of today’s cutting-edge martial arts choreography as seen on the national and international tournament scene as well as featured in Hollywood’s top grossing motion pictures and popular television shows. Chat created the first and most successful Sport Karate performance training camp in the world. He has coached six World and twelve National Forms and Weapons Champions, founded two of the most successful competition teams on the circuit, conducted over 100 martial arts seminars and workshops around the world, and has trained and choreographed for Hollywood’s top stunt coordinators, action directors, and stunt men. from: http://www.xmarevolution.com/phpnuke/modules.php?name=FAQ&myfaq=yes&id_cat=1&categories=What+is+XMA%3F Sound like a rip off.

You can always do what i do, stop taking a meal. Sometimes when go up a few Kg i skip lunch and just eat fruit and bread adn yougurt. If you are that overweights its because you eat already to mutch during the day, so one meal of of 3 will not hurt your development and you will stop getting fat. Of corse do not always skip lunch, just do it like 3 times a week. Add 3 hours of weekly execise, and lots of walking around and you will see that weight will start droping. Also maintaining a decent diet helps a lot, that is do not eat Burgers and fries as a meal, or other heavy meat dishes but go for boiled fish, rice , boiled potatos, bread, fiber at breakfast and drink water not sodas or beer. If this still does not work start eating only half the plate at meals, because you are still eating to mutch. And those snacks you normaly eat when you are bored, get a hobby or a gameboy to play insted of eating out of boredom (the main reason why i normaly gain weight).

I always thought Teruo Chinen (or how is it spelled) was the highest ranking with 6 or 7 dan on Jundokan. Anyway how can you love to do saifa, i personaly hate that one. I love the Gekisai (spelling) and the Seiushi (the one after saifa, i never was good at remenbering japonese names) cause of those defences in horse stance, one looks so cool doing it. I also love doing one we stole from Shinto-Ryu , the one where the first movement is a defence to the head while in nekoachidachi (cat stand) and then procedes with front kick , punch , lateral kick, P, side kick punch, and so on and is done always in a straight line, its named Karikata, or something liek it.

I think the "KI" he is refering is the ability keep standing after taking 5 rounds on the chest just so you can protect your daughter ( do not take literaly). Or in other words is having a will of iron, who can remenber the marathon guy (a soldier) that died in greece after running the 40 Km just so he could bring the news that the war had ended. Or the ability that WW1 soldiers had to stand up from the trenchs and run against machine gun fire to take enemy positions. Or the the mother that lifted the car to take his child out. Or the one who fought 2 wolfs so his 2 kids could escape, and lasted alive just until she had word that them where ok. You can practice all you want, but if you do not have the Will to win you will never see the end of it. PS: On the main text thing, i can tell you that you may train all the fighting arts/systems you want everyway you want but you will get hurt badly if you do not have a sense of awareness/ambush. There is no way a MA will ever prepare you to deflect a knife in the back at a dark aley. I will tell you why i do MA's, it for lasting the 1-3 seconds i need to evaluate and escape when my awareness fails me and i get jumped, cause i can tell you there is nothing more scaring that being jumped (ambushed). As for fighting using hand to hand, it has been oudated since the invention of the club during the cave times.

For me that ninjitso is just some hollywood thing the guys invented to promote movies. Anyway. | \|/ http://koryu.com/library/ninjutsu.html Ninjutsu: is it koryu bujutsu? by Diane Skoss We've been accused of unreasonable prejudice against the popular "ninjutsu"-derived arts. Simply put, it is our opinion that modern-day ninjutsu and ninjutsu-derived arts are not koryu bujutsu. They are not based on a continuous transmission of technique and culture. Koryu.com covers koryu bujutsu. That doesn't mean that arts we don't cover are not worthwhile. We just don't cover them. Given that this is my site, I think that is my perogative. Let me say this again, since it seems some people don't understand. Koryu.com does not cover ninjutsu! The art and those derived from it do not fall into our definition of the koryu bujutsu. Period. If you want to define the koryu differently, that's fine. Just don't ask us to change our definition, which is based on considerable first-hand experience and decades of research in Japanese source material. Please do not trouble yourself to write us to try and convince us to change our minds. It will not work. We have made every effort to be as low-key as possible on the issue of "Is ninjutsu koryu?" We do not stress or advertise our position. That's because we sincerely believe that if your training is working for you then it is none of our business. However, if you come to us and ask whether we consider ninjutsu or the Bujinkan-derived arts to be koryu--well, we can only provide our honest opinion. Please, please, please don't waste your time or ours. We really are familiar with the material relating to this issue; unless you happen to be a Japanese scholar who delves into ancient makimono, you won't turn up something we haven't seen and considered. Again, just because we don't share the same opinion doesn't mean that we are not all doing useful and good training. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu. I really appreciate your consideration!

Not all are born with english as maternal language. And since most of us did understand what he ment, there was no reason for you to come here acting like a child and insult us.

Maybe your friend could just get a manual labor like in a cotton field. ****Kidding**** Anyway there are many sports/gimnastics out there that will give him that without the need to be a marcial art. But i sense that your friend has probably a will power problem or he could just not let himself get fat. So low will power migth be a double edged weapon, meaning that is he does a to soft thing like Gimnastics he might give up after a month cause its so borring to work out for work out. But in a marcial art once things get thought with pain flying by many people give up cause thay arent paying to get beaten up by some stranger. So i would go with a sport thing with heavy social interaction, like TKD or Fencing. Judo/Jujitso might be also nice but he might not like to roll on the floor. You never gess the kind of "little princeses" on finds in a dojo (and im talking about males).

If you wish to learn more on pheriferic vison i remomend that you also learn more on Awareness. Best way it to practice it every day. Like get a sidelook at someone and try to descrive his cloths from it, its extremely hard cause you have no focus on that angle of you field of vison so all things get verry foggy. As for training to react to suden movement to pheriferical vision ..., lets just say you are bound to react faster to a shadow in the periferical vison than to someone walking up to you by your front side. Its strange but its just like that, corner of vision react extremely fast to movement but front vision has more trouble to detect speed/movement like someone front/back walking to/from you unless you are in an atencion statte. Only thing to do about your pheriferic vision is to train it everyday everytime. Mine is exelent but i dont wish you my training method. Anyway i wonce ambushed a guy in the midle of the night, long time ago (reason dont matter), and he like normal people decided he and his friends would do the same to me as payback. So they started to hang at my doorsteep, decided to frequent a bar near my house and he lived like 500 metters from my house. Has you can gess i become paranoid, but it did bring the advantage of extreme intense Awareness/Pheriferic vision/Sthelt training. Anyway you cant always be ready for an attack, because you can never see with the back of your head. So i sujest you also learn a bit about situacional awareness. Its most common sense, like look at the people aroudn you and check for signs of distress. Like people moving their head to look to somewhere, sudent change of facial expresion (can mean something is hapening behind you if the person field of vison extends to your back). Learn how to look without being noticed, how to walk without making sound, how to walk in the shadows, how to use scenary to hide yourself (tree, parked cars, doorsteps, other persons) , how to smile in face of danger (dont giggle or do that nervose smile thinge that every person will understand has fear), how to go blank and face foward using only your side vision to gain info in the most strangest situations, etc Anyway i got a bit off topic, but i would till like to add this, if you train to do a response to a phriferical vision stimule, meke it a dodge rather than a parry, after all it can be a man with a Baseball bat , a lead pipe, a Knife, or your sister carrying a expensive glass pitcher.

I usualy have the same problem that you have, but normaly i can turn it. For blocking i sujest that you tell your partner that your are getting hurt, and start showin signs of that pain, but do that before you actualy start to feel pain, do it at disconfort level, as some people are so hard headed that takes them lots of time to see what they are doing. If that doesnt work, you can use the same medicin on them, the people who tend do this kind of thing also feel pain and tend to be strong muscled people. They tend to not be so flexible as most weeker humans. So when your sensei asks you to practice high kicks to the head, you do them full power, full speed. Its not long before they learn that pain is dealt but is also received. And if you are young you can easely tire them out making them follow your rithm. Also if you develop more arm muscle blocks will not hurt as mutch as the bone will go denser and the muscles will protect you more eficiently. If nothing works, things can get hard as you will be pushing them and they pushing you and that tend to result in injury. I seen once a orange guy break a blackbelt pinky finger with a high block to a head punch . But there is nothing like a injury to make them think twice about things. And remenber training accidents do happen... If you just keep getting abused,just tell your master if he doesnt do nothing just change dojo, and probably style. Try a grapling art as its a lot more effective than karate krap. And i practice Karate, but im realistic if i see a grapler i run.

Strangely this idea of contract is new to me, no one uses contracts in Portugal, Europe. We just pay it every month and if we dont like we leave. Most times people pay months but then just go like once a month till they give up. I think the best idea is to go for discounts on semesters or quarters payments. That contract mentality is just MCDojo mentality.

Soni , if i was you i whould go with a TKD Tekwondo (or hwo do you spell it), it basicly only uses Kicks with some simple hand strikes. I think that since you have not as many finger as a normal human, you should try to protect your future since you will need those finger till the day you die. It very easy to get hurt practicing punches, especialy if you cannot land the punch with the right part of your hand. And since TKD will is a very social thing with strong competition involved, i think you will like it (lots of people of your age). PS: What ever you decide, when you take it for about a year, post your experience here, since i think we all will enjoy hearign about it.